"Music isn't the same nowadays. Not at all. ... The cuss words were bleeped out, but I'm not stupid."

Then she breaks down in tears at the memory of Vince Staples, whose "Norf Norf" she then recites.

If someone doesn't do a Christian Mom remix/cover of Norf Norf by the weekend the internet is over.

Wise words from Vince himself:

What I was saying was that the woman in that video is clearly confused on the context of the song which causes her to be frightened.

— Vince Staples (@vincestaples) October 6, 2016

She also, in my opinion, seems to be emotionally unstable. With both those things being said, she has a right to her opinion.

— Vince Staples (@vincestaples) October 6, 2016

No person needs to be attacked for their opinion on what they see to be appropriate for their children. They have a right to it.

— Vince Staples (@vincestaples) October 6, 2016

This misunderstanding of our community leads to miscommunication which we should convert into a progressive dialogue.

— Vince Staples (@vincestaples) October 6, 2016

Thats all I have to say about that. Stop asking me.

— Vince Staples (@vincestaples) October 6, 2016

UPDATE: JPosition delivers a straight-up, sadly not very catchy Mom cover:

But here is a more sonorous remix, by Maurice Spears. Reminder: so many bad words.

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Behold, how the mighty have fallen. Read the rest

That weird meeting between presidential candidate Donald Trump and a number of so-called Prosperity Gospel evangelists sounds weirder the more we learn about who was there, and what they actually say they believe. Read the rest

You heard it here first.

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Enjoy this genuinely nightmarish visit with Ralph Platt in God's great outdoors, where he joins the birds of the forest in giving song to the pipe organ music of Lorin Whitney.

The full album was recently posted online by Fuji Puzzle Box, who warns that a Volume 2 of this exists somewhere out there.

...an album of pious Christian dirges so lugubrious they practically go all the way around and turn giddy. Made famous by the Firesign Theatre, who created so many dearly beloved batshit radio performances using this record as underscore.

UPDATE: "Hi Rob, Taylor here, archivist for Firesign Theatre and the guy behind Fuji Puzzle Box. Thanks for the post! There was indeed a volume two, and here it is"

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Stephen Fry interviews Dr. Joseph Nicolosi of the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality. Nicolosi's beliefs are so flatly pseudoscientific and Victorian (Homosexuality caused by parental neglect and emotional trauma, etc) that it'd be easy to make a fool of him--Fry, however, being Fry, lets him make a fool of himself. [Video Link via Gawker] Read the rest

Last week, I wrote a piece for BoingBoing about fundamentalist Christian objections to the mathematical idea of set theory. Those objections are, apparently, real—sourced to math textbooks produced by publisher A Beka. And, if you understand the cultural mindset, it even makes a weird sort of sense. But it's also ripe for parody. Read the first comment to this story at The New York Times. At first, it looks like a real world example of the stuff we were talking about last week. But it's not. The commenter is Stephenson Billings, a pseudonymous contributor to the parody site Christwire. I fell for this myself. Thankfully, Twitter user UCSD_Nanomed pointed out what was really going on. Read the rest