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Ah, but you see, he's a former Muslim, now a rightwing Christian who gets big bucks giving speeches about how terrible Islam is. He also claims to have been a terrorist, though all the evidence suggests that he's full of shit.

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Muslims in developing countries, who get big $$$ from Saudi Arabia to build mosques and install preachers who preach ultra-fundamentalist brain-dead Wahhabi versions of Islam?

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"Can you believe / God makes you breathe? How did he lose / six million Jews?"

- Emerson Lake and Palmer had some crap lyrics but that probably takes the cake.

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Applying Mr. Dingbat's logic*, I am not an ex-High Anglican animist but instead a druidic Celt. Which sucks because now I have to go and decorate my house with the heads of my enemies, which will clash with the antique furniture in the family room.

* used with the maximum amount of irony permitted by law

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When you drink the kool-aid and become a Christianist, all past sins are forgiven, especially if you hate all the right people. Sort of like being Catholic, but with more guns and malt liquor.

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As it was in the beginning...

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Named after?

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Is Wahhabi Islam the kind that is really, really spicy?

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Ah, Sir Richard. Probably the coolest Victorian EVER.

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My intended is a ginger. I've been known to use her skin to set the white balance on my video camera.

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Not for three terms, anyway.

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No wonder he's never mentioned it.

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If "spicy" means "puritan, censorious, judgemental, makes the American Family Association look like pikers", then yes!

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Between Greg Lake's cheese, Peter Sinfield's higher-quality cheese, and Jon Anderson's word salad, you're dead on there. Only decent lyrics in classical 70's prog were Peter Hammill in Van Der Graaf Generator, Richard Palmer-James in King Crimson, and the deliberately nonsensical lyrics in a made-up alien language of Magma.

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Have you ever seen dwarf mice? They're African, too.....and adorable.

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As most American voters would say, "Cool."

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