Yet another sign that our civilization is in rapid decline:

NEW YORK – Former Republican Majority Leader Tom DeLay will join 15 celebrities from the worlds of entertainment and sports in kicking up their heels on the new season of “Dancing With the Stars.”

The show’s largest cast ever, announced Monday, features singers Mya, Macy Gray and Aaron Carter; actors Ashley Hamilton, Melissa Joan Hart and Debi Mazar (MAY’-zahr); and models Joanna Krupa and Kathy Ireland.

Why?  Why is this little shitbag allowed in polite society? And who wants to see him on ‘Dancing With the Has-Beens’?

‘Dancing With the Stars’ Cast Includes Tom DeLay [OMG!]

In the midst of our bar brawl spirited exchange with a troll distinguished visitor on Friday, Stinquer “al2o3cr” brought to our attention a curious Fall 2009 course requirement from the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary:

At least 10 posts defending aspects of the Christian worldview totaling at least 3,000 words on “hostile” websites.

To be fair, the trolling must be original:

When the professor concludes that a student has plagiarized an assignment, the student will receive the grade of zero for the assignment, and the office of the Vice President for Student Affairs will be notified about the incident.

Don’t take that warning lightly — Professor William A. Dembski will call Homeland Security on yer ass if he doesn’t like your work.

No, really. We’re quite serious. Ask Eric Pianka.

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From an email message forwarded by a North Canton, Ohio, police dispatcher, who received it from a fellow dispatcher in Uniontown:

“New ‘Air Force One’ Tail Number and yes, please forgive me, I’m really sorry, I really, really tried not to laugh, but …………………..!”

Next time, try harder. The keg’s running low.

Rogue Dispatcher Endangers Lives of North Canton Police [OhioDaily, via Think Progress]

Update: Two North Canton dispatchers were suspended Friday because of the email. There’s still hope.

Did you know there are Malaysian cars we in the U.S. cannot get?  Did you care?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI2MpcIiO6A

I don’t know precisely why I love this clip, but I do.  Eighties Clarkson – amazing the crap they could get in Britain that never made it to the states.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TomR2ayE9dc

Title: “An Intellectual History of Cannibalism”

Author: Catalin Avramescu; translated by Alistair Ian Blyth

Rank: 103,316

Blurb: “The cannibal — perhaps the ultimate symbol of savagery and degradation — has haunted the Western imagination since before the Age of Discovery, when Europeans first encountered genuine cannibals and related horrible stories of shipwrecked travelers eating each other. An Intellectual History of Cannibalism is the first book to systematically examine the role of the cannibal in the arguments of philosophers, from the classical period to modern disputes about such wide-ranging issues as vegetarianism and the right to private property.”

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Artist Rendering of Jonathan Edwards Expressing His True Feelings for Diabolical Space Alien Rielle Hunter

Failed presidential candidate Jonathan “Johnny Mill” Edwards is reportedly ready to confess to siring a child with space alien Rielle Hunter, a creature from outer space who invented a past as a failed actress and seduced Edwards onto her space ship for savage, inter-species pestorking during Edwards’ last campaign for which she posed a ‘documentary maker’.

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