Freethinking Music

And the graven image you-know-who –
with His plastic crucifix –
he’s got him fixed –
confuses me as to who and where and why –
as to how he gets his kicks.
Confessing to the endless sin –
the endless whining sounds.
You’ll be praying till next Thursday to
all the gods that you can count.
— Jethro Tull, “My God”
I’m going [...]

Ed Brayton knocks Orson Scott Card around

The blogosphere — particularly that part inhabited by SF&F authors and fans, has been exploding over the recent idiocy of Orson Scott Card. His latest ignorant ass episode is about gay marriage, and you can, if you dare, read it at the Mormon Times.
It’s not surprising to me that Ed Brayton of Dispatches from the [...]