evangelical wuggae

From BoingBoing:

Bibleman: complete with incredibly cheesy costume and everything.

The Amazing Jesus of Nazareth: it starts out being the water-to-wine story, but in the hands of Rowan Atkinson you just know it's not going to end there.

Date To Save: "As you can probably tell, I'm a Christian woman who loves Jesus Christ and cares for all humans, even the wicked. What you probably don't know is that I'm hot." Includes tips for Missionary Dating. (No, really.) Also includes a link to Flirt To Convert, a matchmaking service that allows you to specify whether you want to convert someone or be converted by someone...to a variety of faiths...including atheism.

(Gotta love the Internet, I tell you. It saves me so much time--otherwise I'd have to make stuff like this up. (Not sure if this is a parody or not.))

and to finish off: Show Tunes vs. Fundamentalists: unfortunately, I'm too polite (oversocialized?) to ever do this myself.

political poll bemusement

This page contains the results of several recent political polls, a number of whose questions relate to the ongoing US Congressional corruption investigations.

Some of the more interesting results:

• Respondents tend to believe that their own reps are less beholden to donors, lobbyists, and "special interests" than other people's reps. (This may actually be true, as a population measure. But I'd like to see the distribution of responses.)
  
• Federal-level officials are considered to be more likely to be corrupt than state or local officials.
  
• Democrats are considered to be better at dealing with corruption.
  
• The same percentages of respondents said that Dems and Reps are considered to have "higher ethical standards"...but in the _same survey_, Republicans are considered to be more (financially) corrupt. Go figure that one out.