1. Comment #39826 by Logicel on May 12, 2007 at 4:12 am

He (i.e. T. Haggard) put the men in Ah men.

Hilarious.

Roy is part of the wonderful American, folk-music tradition of protesting, like Guthrie and Lehrer.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, Russell Blackford compose a limerick about Roy.

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2. Comment #39828 by Homo economicus on May 12, 2007 at 4:13 am

I enjoy this guy immensely.

Wonder if he has an album of his stuff; even better a song book!

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3. Comment #39834 by loki on May 12, 2007 at 4:34 am

new comedy hero! wonderful

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4. Comment #39859 by ranjani on May 12, 2007 at 5:50 am

Homo economicus:
Yes, he has several albums. They are available at
www.royzimmerman.com and at itunes. Of course, on itunes you can listen to a few seconds of each song. Also there are a few more of his songs on youtube. They are called "Dick Cheney", "Jerry Falwell's God", "The war on terror", "What if the Beatles were irish" and "Creation Science 101"(this one is in the archives somewhere on this website).

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5. Comment #39866 by Glacian on May 12, 2007 at 6:31 am

That had my clapping out loud! I'm definitely going to be looking into more of this guy's work. Oh man brilliant rhyming and playing the audience, with the syllogism line.

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6. Comment #39904 by kurzweilfreak on May 12, 2007 at 8:38 am

Every single one of Roy's songs is incredibly hilarious! I love this guy. :D And the whole Ted Haggard thing is just.... well, not surprising, I'd almost say typical and expected. All I can do is shake my head and say "figures". The hypocrisy is almost painful in that my sides hurt from laughing so much at these idiots.

Keep 'em coming Roy! :D

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7. Comment #39913 by Laurence Winch-Furness on May 12, 2007 at 9:15 am

Did Dawkins have anything to say about Ted Haggard's outing? I'd be quite interested to know just how much shadenfreude he felt!

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8. Comment #39922 by wagnerpe on May 12, 2007 at 9:43 am

His music is on iTunes, if anyone was looking foor it. The full band sounds pretty cool, too.

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9. Comment #39930 by steve99 on May 12, 2007 at 10:25 am

This guy is really talented. He is a true heir of Tom Lehrer.

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10. Comment #39933 by perkyjay on May 12, 2007 at 10:32 am

Comment#39913 - LAWRENCE WINCH-FURNESS:I'm certain that Richard Dawkins felt enormous private schadenfreude in Haggard's fall from grace, but he's too polite to go public with it.

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11. Comment #39935 by pewkatchoo on May 12, 2007 at 10:43 am

Who the fuck is Ted Haggard?

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12. Comment #39937 by BaronOchs on May 12, 2007 at 10:49 am

pewkatchoo he was pastor of a mega-church in colorado springs, and leader of the 30million member national union of evangelicals. He had a sharp exchange with Dawkins in the root of all evil, supposedly had a telephone conference with the whitehouse every week and was a strong opponent of gay marriage.

But it all went tits up when it emerged he'd been doing meth and screwing this guy.

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13. Comment #39939 by pewkatchoo on May 12, 2007 at 10:54 am

Hmmm. Not a good career move then!

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14. Comment #39955 by Nikki on May 12, 2007 at 11:37 am

Ted Haggard: The Paris Hilton of American Christian Fundamentalism.
Well...except that he made his money selling snake oil.

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15. Comment #39968 by HereticChick on May 12, 2007 at 12:20 pm

How completely hilarious! This guy is AWESOME!

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16. Comment #39992 by Machoduck on May 12, 2007 at 2:36 pm

ROFL!

This is just ingenious.. and damn funny! Kudos to this guy...

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17. Comment #40003 by Bayle on May 12, 2007 at 3:56 pm

Ridiculing religion is probably the best way to make people realize how laughable their beliefs really are. Roy is probably doing more for atheism than any other initiative I've yet seen--comedy is how you appeal to the minds of err... well, you get the idea.

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18. Comment #40006 by mjwemdee on May 12, 2007 at 4:19 pm

A brilliant piece of musical satire. Tom Lehrer would be proud of this guy.
Bayle (Comment#40003) I agree, unfortunately most faithheads (especially Muslims - not so much our Jewish cousins) have no sense of humour at all.

...Did Jesus ever crack a joke?

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19. Comment #40010 by Logicel on May 12, 2007 at 4:42 pm

If I remember correctly, In Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, the main plot line was the keeping from public knowledge by a monk at all costs--including murder and arson--an ancient transcript which encouraged laughter and joking.

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20. Comment #40164 by Eureka Step on May 13, 2007 at 1:03 pm

Superbo!

I too will look out for recordings by this guy.

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21. Comment #40180 by ? on May 13, 2007 at 2:58 pm

Haggard makes an appearance in the documentary movie "Jesus Camp" which is an expose of the religious far right. A young boy aspiring to be a preacher goes to the big Colorado megachurch and gets advice from him (I guess the boy should have picked Dawkins as a role model). Before this, we see a clip of Haggard's sermon which is about---you guessed it---the evils of homosexuality. Everyone should see this movie. It really exposes some weird crap.

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22. Comment #40783 by Russell Blackford on May 15, 2007 at 1:17 am

Logicel, a limerick about Ted Haggard might be more appopriate. Okay... let's see:

He denied and denied and denied,
But he lied and he lied and he lied.
Pastor Ted had to seek
A superior technique
For embracing his hetero side.

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23. Comment #41817 by Logicel on May 17, 2007 at 6:10 am

Russell Blackford, Thanks, a nice one. My husband, almost 20 years ago, courted me while we were separated by thousands of miles of religious wasteland--he was on the West Coast, while I was on the East Coast of America--with limericks which of course he named Lovericks. So, I am a bit impartial to that poetic vehicle even though I can't compose one to save my little atheistic butt. However, I have been known to do a mean Haiku from time to time.

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