Daily Archives: January 12, 2009

He doesn’t like “a Richard Simmons, hippie, queer Christ”: Mark Driscoll, a Seattle Religious Authoritarian, is Profiled in the NY Times

Can we just start calling some fundamentalist “Christian” leaders by a more accurate designation: religious authoritarians? And instead of calling the places that they build “mega-churches,” can we call them what they actually are: personality-driven mega-cults assisted by the shameless use of contemporary … Continue reading

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Gays are “Sodomites”?: Mike Huckabee Assures Ann Coulter That His Anti-Gay Bigotry Runs as Strongly as Hers

Don’t let Mike Huckabee’s jocular demeanor fool you. He wants everybody to know that he is as intolerant of gay people as any other good religious authoritarian. In fact, he finds “sodomy” just as distasteful as Ann Coulter does. In … Continue reading

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“Life, Death, Inflation, and Deflation”: The Eeerie Magic of Trash Bag Art

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A 14th Century Woman Pleasuring Herself—With Reading

I like the image below because the woman’s expression, as she holds a book and looks down upon it, is serene, and her other hand, in her lap, is suggestive of self-pleasure. Here we have an image, from prior to the … Continue reading

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