I used to keep a list of those pesky perplexing questions… the things that will make your brain hurt. Questions like
- Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
- Why do chefs wear those big white hats?
- Why is it that when you’re driving and looking for an address, you turn down the volume on the radio?
- Why do you drive on parkways, but park on driveways?
- Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii?
- Why do noses run while feet smell?
- How would privatizing Medicare make it more efficient?
- What health insurance company would sell a policyto a 75 year old diabetic with high blood pressure?
- Why do working class and poor people ever vote Republican?
- Is there a God?
I don’t have the definitive answer to any of those questions, but truly spend more time contemplating the questions about people voting against their own best interests than I do in pondering the existence of God. But given the hysteria last week over the supposed end of the world last weekend, I thought that talking with famed prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi about his new book, Divinity of Doubt: The God Question would be timely and interesting.
And it was. Interesting, that is… though we’ll never have proof of anything. But here’s another perplexing question for you…
If there’s no evidence that there IS a God, shouldn’t we just admit that there isn’t, until someone can prove otherwise? Just asking….
As he does on most Thursday morning, John Fugelsang joined me today to talk about the sorry group of potential GOP presidential candidates, Ed Schultz stupidly calling Laura Ingraham a “slut” (stupid choice of words — idiotic, hateful bitch would have been more accurate and wouldn’t have gotten him suspended), and the hypocrisy of the right for continuing their war on common decency.
I’ll be guest hosting the Randi Rhodes Show tomorrow… so will talk to you then!