Thoughtless for the Day

As I mentioned yesterday, I've got a ton of writing obligations to fulfill, so toady's Thoughtless will be rather short and mostly comprised of information that other people have sent me.

From Doc (to whom, as well as the guys in the Tweakers, I owe an apology: your links have been added) comes the first story out of the Sudan in over a year to have nothing to do with genocide and everything to do with goat nuptials.

"When I asked him: 'What are you doing there?', he fell off the back of the goat, so I captured and tied him up".

Somewhere, Rick Santorum is saying, "See? I told you this was gonna happen."

Mike supplies us with a story about Richard Dawkins' new series The Root of All Evil? in which Dawkins takes on religion. It seems pretty unlikely that the series will ever air in the United States of Jeebuz, so we'll all just have to do you our best to imagine the confrontation between Dawkins and a Colorado Springs minister.

"In a conversation with Dawkins after the sermon, the pastor likens the event to a rock concert. Dawkins suggests that it was more akin to a Nuremberg rally-a comparison that the pastor appears to be too uneducated and ignorant to be offended by."

And, finally, religion and goat fucking have come together in the form of Governor Mike Rounds of South Dakota. Governor Reach-A- Rounds is currently leaning towards signing into law a bill, approved on Friday by South Dakota lawmakers, which would ban nearly all abortions in the state: including in cases of rape or incest. This bill should pose no problems for the Governor who only rapes barnyard animals and does so anally as not to induce unwanted pregnancies.