UK Petition Alert: Remove Church of England Bishops from the House of Lords

We have a UK Petition rolling that calls for the clerics within the House of Lords to be removed … With the publication of the Church of England’s intention to sanction the US Episcopal Church over the latter’s sympathetic stance towards equal marriage, the C of E is quite out of step with UK Law … Read more

Is The Church of England relevant anymore?

A recent survey now reveals that only 760,000 attend Church of England Sunday services and so obviously well over 62 million other people don’t. This is all part of an ongoing downward trend that has been happening for quite some time and consists of a 1% drop each and every year since the second world war, and so … Read more

FBI have asked the elderly to stop knocking Oregon militants on their ass

The title says it all, and yes, I confess that I did indeed quite enjoy reading this. The story is about Robert Saunders, a 79 year old retied teacher and devoted birdwatcher, who was out checking on some owls. While doing so he was confronted by an armed Oregon militant who quickly got in his face and … Read more

Top 10 Oregon Militia Standoff “facts” – #YallQaeda

The #YallQaeda hash tag within the title should be a not so subtle clue that this is not a serious posting. OK, so here are 10 “facts”, and yes those are indeed air-quotes around the word “facts”, because I’ve mined some of these “facts” from satire-central, which is perhaps better known to you as The Onion. So … Read more

Why do poor people in red states vote Republicans into office?

You would think that people on social welfare and Medicaid would be voting to elect those that support the concept of social welfare into office, yet time after time the candidates opposed to such support keep getting elected, so it can only leave you wondering what exactly is going on inside their heads – why do they … Read more