All Are Concerned With Your Little Secret

• Hey, speaking of transitional creatures … this is even weirder than a croco-duck.

• In response to the claim by AIDS-denying racist Bryan Fischer that bacon proves America was founded as a Christian nation, I’ll just mention that the first meal I ate in Jerusalem was pork tenderloin. (Well, just across from Jerusalem, actually — in a hotel dining room on the Mount of Olives, with a spectacular view of the Temple Mount below.)

• “Face of Jesus found on pierogi” (via). Someone is confused. Clearly, this is the face of Frank Zappa on a pierogi:

Or, possibly, David Crosby. Or maybe Floyd Pepper of the Electric Mayhem.

• When someone comes over to the dark side, they should be congratulated.

• Kevin Sorbo follows up his earlier comments about “Christ-killers” and “animals” by digging deeper: “They never want to deal with the New Testament in Hollywood, because it’s pretty much, you know, run by the world of the, um, Jewish population,” the Hercules actor said recently in an interview with right-wing “Christian” radio host Peter Heck.

First question: Is Sorbo going through a Gibsonian melt-down with these racist and anti-Semitic comments, or is he just saying this stuff to boost his currency with the white evangelical target-audience of the more than a dozen “Christian” movies he’s worked on this year?

Second question: Either way, what does it say about white evangelicalism that Sorbo’s recent racist and anti-Semitic comments will likely have the effect of boosting his favorability with that target audience?

• Carlos Bovell on how questioning [late-20th-century, white] biblical inerrantism gets one labeled “a mouthpiece of Satan.” (“Then I shall be a wicked Child …”)

• Fight the Power: A look back at CEPTIA, the Committee to End Pay Toilets in America.

• I want to see Calvary, John Michael McDonough’s new film starring Brendan Gleeson as a good, therefore doomed, local priest. Mark Silk liked it, which would be another point in its favor, except that he also points out that Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput liked it — subtract a point for that.

Partly, I guess, I’m just happy to see a movie that explores religious themes without Kevin Sorbo in it.