Fearless leader and hopeful 2016 presidential candidate Ben Carson has braved the terrifying wrath of America's atheist power structure (which is a whopping 3.1% of the population) to post a defiant Christmas message on facebook. No doubt risking his life to send his festive ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Dec 20, 2018

I could easily have posted this weeks ago, right around the time America's conservative Christian junta was losing its mind about Starbuck's cups. But to be honest I just couldn't bring myself to talk about the annual War on Christmas™ -- a wholly owned subsidiary of Fox News -- ...read more

• By Chez Pazienza
  Feb 17, 2016

As soon as Fox News reported that Santa Claus "just is white," the same as Jesus, liberal outrage suddenly threw millions of children into a yuletide panic. On September 21, 1897, our own Tommy Christopher responded to a letter from one such youngster, little Megynia O'Kelly, ...read more

• By Tommy Christopher
  Feb 17, 2016

Once again, Bill O'Reilly has reminded us of his total lack of self-awareness with his latest cant about atheists allegedly declaring war on Christmas. This is old hat for O'Reilly, who for years has been railing against secularists and their supposed plot to destroy all that is ...read more

• By Michael Luciano
  Dec 20, 2018

When Christian conservatives wax apoplectic about the "war on Christmas," they're engaging in one of their favorite time-honored traditions: casting themselves as martyrs for a moral cause increasingly under attack from the godless heathens of secular society. Whereas Jesus was ...read more

• By Michael Luciano
  Dec 20, 2018

During a video segment called "The Morning Meeting," Beck and morning zoo sidekick Pat Gray discussed, of all things, a box of dildos. Specifically, a box of dildos in a high school end-of-term student awards ceremony. Why, Beck wondered, is a box of dildos allowed in school, ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Feb 17, 2016

It's Monday morning, so you know the drill. Time to get back to work. But take heart: the next few weeks should provide ample room for slacking off. Unless you're me, of course. Here's some crap for you to read. 1. Supplying Demands If you figured the recent budget deal in the ...read more

• By Chez Pazienza
  Feb 17, 2016

It's back to the maze with you, lab rats. Time to chase the cheese again in the endless, ultimately fruitless struggle we call life. Here's some reading material to distract you from the grind. Eat Me Think we're at the top of the food chain? Think again. And no, that's not ...read more

• By Chez Pazienza
  Feb 17, 2016

I don't even know where to begin with this. First of all, I hate Travis Gettys over at Rawstory for getting these quotes before we could. Well done, sir. Let's just dive right in. As part of her book tour, Sarah Palin spoke yesterday at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University in ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Nov 9, 2018

In case you haven't yet heard the call to arms echoing across the country, it's back: the War on Christmas™, a wholly owned subsidiary of Fox News. Every year it returns and, much like the Christmas shopping season, every year it seems to begin earlier and earlier. Way back in ...read more

• By Chez Pazienza
  Feb 17, 2016

Sarah Palin's new book, Good Tidings and Great Joy: Protecting the Heart of Christmas, is exactly what it sounds like: a poorly written self-indulgent response to the so-called "War on Christmas," featuring personal stories of Palin's various Alaska Christmases. For example, in ...read more

• By Bob Cesca
  Feb 17, 2016

By Lawrence S. Wittner: Although fundamentalist fanatics have been working for decades to turn the United States into a “Christian nation,” they have not had much success along these lines. One reason for their failure is that religious minorities and non-believers have ...read more

• By Guest Contributor
  Nov 9, 2018