Hey, Atheists like piney holiday goodness too. Celebrate the season by adorning your solstice evergreen with nifnak.com’s Flying Spaghetti Monster Ornament.

Or get your craft on for the New Year and whip up some of Kate’s make-your-own solstice decorations. Click here to get step-by-step instructions for making solstice lanterns from strings of holiday lights and pretty tree ornaments from citrus fruit.

From the Associated Press:

“There are many who will seek our support,” he [Mr. Huckabee] said. “But let me say it’s important that people sing from their hearts and don’t merely lip-sync the lyrics of our songs.

The language of Zion is a mother tongue and not merely a recently acquired second language.”

And I thought the Republicans were the ones who wanted English to be the official language of the United States.

Students at Missouri State University have started a chapter of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and it’s now the second-largest religious group on campus. Here’s local news coverage from Ozarks Fox KSFX. [thx Laughing Squid]

Find Flying Spaghetti Monster frequently asked questions here.

This life-in-pictures promo for the satirical Destined for Destiny: the Unauthorized Biography of George Bush will make you laugh/cry. [Thanks evangelicalright]

Plus: Have you met Al the Affable Atheist? Click here to enjoy his polite discussion of his disbelief in Poseidon.

And: Only last week I discovered John Safran vs God on the Sundance Channel. The next episode — which “finds John in Sicily where he confesses to a priest about his very sinful past… goes door-to-door in Salt Lake City visiting Mormon homes and advocating atheism, and takes in the spiritual teachings of some Hindi gurus in India — premiers on Oct. 11. (Unfortunately it’s episode 5 of 8! Wish I would have caught 1 - 4.) Visit the show’s web page to see funny/sad/scarey video clips and learn more about John’s “irreverent personal investigation into religions around the world.”