TOO LATE! I've already devoted my life to worshiping Christopher Hitchens!

Here is the first limerick in my forthcoming Hitchensian Bible.

Christopher Hitchens, the barracuda,
opined on the fellow of Judah
   Drank wine till he crawled
   Got fat and went bald
And ended up looking like Buddha

No no. You ACTUALLY eat his flesh and drink his blood. The true miracle of transubstantiation is that it doesn't TASTE like human flesh and blood.   

Yeah, he was great in Murder at 1600, better than Paul Reiser in similar roles IMO. Too bad he didn't keep acting. He could be on Law & Order or something.

Yeah, and that's what's weird about calling Judaism and Christianity "monotheistic". They go way out of their way to claim that 1+1+1 = 1 god, but there's also this god of evil lurking around every corner, ruling Hell, and trying to make you buy dresses.*

*Mainly applies to Flip Wilson

Everything about the Great Flood is sort of awesome and hilarious. From the lack of any geological evidence, to the bristlecone pine trees in California that are older than the Flood, to the fact that the whole world had gone to hell just 700 years after Adam, to the "correction" of dates for Methuselah to avoid his being still alive at the time of the Flood, to the animals (4 of each, by the way, and 14 of the farm animals and birds*).

Google Noah's Ark and you'll find people insisting that dinosaurs were on the ark and no animal ate meat until after the Flood and so on. It's amazing.

And just 100 years later, WHILE NOAH IS STILL ALIVE, people are off building the Tower of Babel. And God is like "We** gotta stop this! They'll be building cars and computers next! Make them talk funny!"

* "seven of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and two of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, and also seven of every kind of bird, male and female...." Genesis 7, unless you want to believe the lying whore mouth of Genesis 6

** Him and Satan, I guess? Satan helped him out later when they decided to gamble with Lot's faith.

Just watching Where Eagles Dare (1968), the WW2 movie with Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood. Because it's a war movie, you'd expect the cast to be principally male, but Burton's character has a couple of game female agents posing as servant girls behind enemy lines.

When Eastwood meets the second one after climbing in a window off a cable car, he wearily observes "You seem to have a lot of women stashed around this country, major."

But that author is just arguing (rather unsuccessfully in my opinion) that Yahweh and El are one god in two specific passages. He completely concedes that they were separate gods at an earlier time.

And I think restraint extends even to all-CG films. I watched Monsters University today and enjoyed it, but like Tintin, many of the sets (especially exteriors) are so realistic that they could work in a live action film. In MU, it works fine altho it's pointless, but in Tintin, the characters in that world seems to be humans wearing giant fake heads. There's something to be said for cartoonishness in animated features.

Right. The Beef is trying to make people think about attribution and not theft of intellectual property. That's why he's copying apologies without attribution. Meanwhile, his lawyer is surely talking to Clowes about how much money it will take to avoid an IP lawsuit.

Shia is NOT concerned about money ("I have to give $10 thousand to one of my heroes? Oh well..."). He only cares about how he can avoid this hurting his career as an actor and film maker AND his ego.

My ending was... and then APES ON HORSEBACK!

Oh lord. It sounded like a lawyer wrote that apology, but this is just getting weird.

EDIT: I wonder what Gaffigan and Lennon think about this. They're both respected writers. And comedians in particular are rabid about material being stolen. I bet Lennon won't say anything (he doesn't want to burn any bridges as a screenwriter), but Gaffigan will say something publicly before long.