Falwell fails to respond.  Phelps, though, with true Christian compassion and humility, pronounces his certainty that Falwell has gone to Satan’s bosom. However, Treacher has an excellent post up about the Opie & Anthony kerfuffle, which now has resulted in their being suspended by XM for 30 days–not so much, apparently, for what was said on their program, as for their attempt to explain themselves, rather than prostrating themselves at

How’s Larry Flynt doing?  From NPR’s glowing, non-biased encomium: The Rev. Jerry Falwell, a pioneer among televangelists who later became a leading voice in the national debate over Christian values, has died at the age of 73. Falwell was found unconscious Tuesday in his office at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va. A fundamentalist preacher, Falwell burst onto the national scene in 1979, when he launched an organization he presumptuously called

If the car is a projection of the penis, would you prefer a man who drives a Toyota Landcruiser or, say, a Cooper Mini?  Theoretically speaking. And what do you make of Ed Begley, Jr’s incessant proselytizing for the whole electric package?  Is there such thing as “Tesla envy”? Sorry, but these kinds of things keeps me up at night.

From Radley Balko: In March 2004, two Florida teens—17-year-old male “J.G.W.” and 16-year-old female “A.H.,” as court records refer to them—photographed themselves engaged in sex acts.  Then they sent the pictures from A.H.’s computer to J.G.W.’s email account.  It’s not exactly clear how, but the photos soon wound up in the hands of the police.  Both teenagers were charged with producing child pornography. The sex acts themselves were not illegal;