You may be a sanitary engineer now, but you're still picking up garbage

So we were flipping through Christianity Today -- we read it for the articles! -- and saw that the Religious Right doesn't want to be called the Religious Right anymore, because they are losers, and they have failed, finally. What to call these Trans-fat Taliban of the Unemployed American Heartland?

Thanks to the magic of rebranding, the Religious Right is now transformed into some more...or less...well, I'm not sure quite what, really. They surely FEEL different, though, not that I'm going to get close enough to one of them to find out exactly how different.

Now that Gary Bauer and his ilk want to be labeled as "Socially Conservative Evangelicals", I swear...they feel 23% less oppressive, 18% less judgmental, and an astonishing 41% less intolerant. 'Course, I don't know what the margin of error on that survey is, because the sample pool consisted of...well, just me...but labels like "Christian Fascists" or "American Taliban" seem so...2008? It's Morning in America ©, y'all!

I kid, of course...because Bauer and his merry band of fascist inbreds are still the very same folks who continue militating for what can only be described as the Fundamentalist Christian version of Sharia. Religious freedom? Tolerance? Christian Charity? Well, sure...if you're straight, White, come from a traditional nuclear family, and vote Republican.

Then again, there's an oddly liberating feeling that goes along with being certain in the knowledge that I'm on the expressway to Hell. If you're headed there anyway, you might as well stomp on the accelerator, right?

Oops...gotta go. Time to put out the garbage.... ;-)