Stephen Colbert is Awesome

Old news, but if you somehow managed to miss it (not too unlikely, since the mainstream press downplayed it), here are some good links relating to Colbert's verbal broadside of Bush and the press corps.

• Stephen Colbert: New American Hero
• Thank You, Stephen Colbert
• Transcript of the event
• And finally, the video

First Jon Stewart attacks the media on Crossfire, then Letterman destroys Bill O'Reilly on the Late Show, and now this! Awesome!

And we must not forget Harry Taylor.

Lightning Kills

In Mexico, lightning recently struck and killed five children who were praying to god at the base of a large cross. Tragic.

A logical person may reasonably ask, "Why would god do this, why would he allow this to happen?" That same person may also logically hypothesize that an all-caring god simply wouldn't allow this to occur. That same person may then proceed to conclude that god must not exist.

I can already hear Pat Robertson saying, "Obviously, these children were evil and deserved to be punished for X," where X equals something along the lines of being homosexual, supporting homosexuals, supporting abortion, or something else equally stupendous.