Two weeks ago, after an epic night of rocking out, I somehow ended up watching BET at four in the morning and stumbling upon Pastor Kerney Thomas.

Pastor Kerney preaches to a nationwide television audience in the wee hours each weekend. He spends this time making “miracles” for people who call his personal prayer hotline. Pastor Kerney’s claims to cure people of their medical and financial problems them with bizarre shrieking, echolalia, and a special “red blood of Jesus prayer handkerchief.” When I first watched him, Thomas actually told one caller, a recovering alcoholic who’d been diagnosed with a liver condition: “I don’t care what the doctor told you… Whose report would you rather believe? ‘Cause my report came from God.” It would all be horribly sad if the Pastor’s screaming wasn’t so hilarious.

I know this is a politics site and Kerney Thomas doesn’t actually have anything to do with politics, but I couldn’t resist posting this video of the Pastor in action. It may very well be the funniest thing on the internet right now, and it’s nothing compared to watching Kerney do his thing on television. You have to see this. Read the rest of this entry »

You may not have have heard the name Hilary Rosen, but you who she is: when Rosen was chairman and chief executive officer for the Recording Industry Association of America, she led the charge against letting you download your music. Wired doesn’t mince words: Rosen “subsequently became the ubiquitous face and voice of the recording industry’s aggressive and futile attempts” to stop you from downloading. Anyhoo, Rosen stepped down, unable to contain the internets, and went to work as interim director for the Human Rights Campaign. These days, she talks with her head on MSNBC and is “the co-founder and board member of OurChart.com, a social networking site for lesbians.” And now, Rosen has now been hired as “Political Director” for the Huffington Post, whatever the hell that’s supposed to mean. Apparently, Arianna Huffington is after her “network of contacts and know-how.”

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