Beck the Con Man by Bob Cesca

"Beck was in full televangelist mode about God and something about a "plan" and, in the process, he dovetailed into a little McCarthyism and, as usual, a little historical revisionism. He even shrunk into a defensive bit refuting the accusations that he's a faker who's conning his audience."

"Listen to me. I have the answers. Because God is speaking to me. So give generously if you want to hear what God's plan is."

"Now, see if you can figure this one out. Beck says in his monologue, "Do not accept coincidence in your life. Look for the answers of your life -- look for your answers in your life through coincidence. Because there's no such thing as coincidence." It sounds as though he's saying, there's no such thing as coincidence, but look for the answers in your life through coincidence. Okay, so is there coincidence or not? "

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Sounds like a con man, just like Joseph Smith, though not yet convicted. Who but a con could fall for his babble?

Jon Stewart went to town on Fox News

"Last week, Jon Stewart went to town on Fox News, pointing out the hypocrisy in their coverage and summing it up with a grand "Go F--k Yourselves." It was fantastic."

"I know that I criticize you and Fox News a lot, but only because you're truly a terrible, cynical, disingenuous news organization."

"Comedians do social commentary through comedy. That's how it's worked for thousands of years. I have not moved out of the comedian's box into the news box. The news box is moving towards me."

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I wish Faux News would move into the news business and out of the propaganda business.

Dispatch from Guntopia, by Cliff Schecter

"To protesters at the Fort Hunt rally, the federal government, a health care bill and their personal interpretation of the Constitution are reasons for everyone to be armed and ready to do battle (although, interestingly, during the Bush Administration's assault on the Constitution with the Patriot Act, warrantless wiretapping, turning Gitmo into, well, Gitmo, rendition, etc., we didn't hear much from this crowd). Losing an election is just another justification for political violence."

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The teabagging cons spoke little when w was clamping down on freedom, when w lied about reasons for invading Iraq, when w ran up 5-7 trillion in new debt. But listen to them now with Obama. Amazingly delusional.

Dear Case's Hero

"All journalists make mistakes. After all, it's a human enterprise. Then there's John Stossel, now of Fox News.

He doesn't merely commit the occasional error, he combines tall tales and worthless stats to fit his conservative rant-of-the-day."

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Jeez Case and other crazy cons, why does your side need to lie so much? Type in "John Stossel lies" in Google and see what comes up.

Atheists on Easter

By John Blake, CNN

"Bush's polarizing presidency showed people how bad things could turn "if religion was in charge," he said. The Internet showed atheists that they weren't alone, as they sought out and encouraged one another."

"Those who ask why people need God are also raising their public profile in other ways. Richard Dawkins, author of "The God Delusion," and Sam Harris, author of "The End of Faith," have best-selling books questioning the need for religion."

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After reading the before mentioned books, I can say that I wish cons read more, especially the Good Book.

"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." Once again we turn to George Orwell to understand the perverse need of some among us to reverse the meaning of words. As the author of 1984 knew, totalitarianism begins with the perversion of language." Read More

GD, I thought I was nearly alone. Cons have perverted the English language, that's for sure.

Evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa at the the London School of Economics and Political Science correlated data on these behaviors with IQ from a large national U.S. sample and found that, on average, people who identified as liberal and atheist had higher IQs. This applied also to sexual exclusivity in men, but not in women. The findings will be published in the March 2010 issue of Social Psychology Quarterly.