Enough Fundamentalist Hooey -- America is a Land of Freedom -- and Joy

Rosario Dawson leading the dancers in Kevin Smith's Clerks 2 (2006): Yep,that's joyful.


"Satan has his sights" on the USA..and off goes GOP Candidate Rick Santorum providing the framework for a frightening new form of American theocracy -- now good Americans, products of the Enlightenment, after having weathered the demise of the totalitarian Soviet Union, need to not only worry about an international front of renegade Islamic religious extremists seeking to destroy secular and Enlightenment freedoms and restore some totalitarian international caliphate, but also a home front of home-grown Christian religious extremists seeking to destroy secular and Enlightenment freedoms and create some frightening vision of a totalitarian  theocratic government. The GOP casually throws around accusations of "socialist" Democratic government,so  let's label what many GOP candidates seem to be striving for -- un-American religious dictatorship right out of Margaret Atwood's A Handmade's Tale.

The NY Times' Maureen Dowd took issue with some of the latest Santorum fear-mongering:  "Why is it that Republicans don’t want government involved when it comes to the economy (opposing the auto bailouts) but do want government involved when it comes to telling people how to live their lives? In a party always misty for bygone times bristling with ugly inequities, Santorum is successful because he’s not ashamed to admit that he wants to take the country backward." More from Ms. Dowd here

Don't give up the struggle for freedom, creativity, science and enlightenment -- and never stop singing and dancing.