November 2010
32 posts
i mean, SERIOUSLY
And to those responses that are like, “Well, sure, Christian groups put up scores of obnoxious billboards but I never expected Atheists to stoop to that level.”
Seriously? So you expect Christians to clog the conversation with whatever damn fool thing they want to say, but Atheists are supposed to keep their traps shut lest they insult someone with their “tone?”...
on faith and the lack thereof.
Fair enough, but is it necessary to attack people’s beliefs in the process? Why not just focus on celebrating your own beliefs rather than pissing people off by putting theirs down? Ridiculing a belief system that, for many people, is the basis for their entire life philosophy is not a way to win friends or influence people; it’s a way to act like a stereotype. Read...
digital wormholes
Look, I’m not fancy. My television is about a decade or so old, heavy with actual tubes. I have a digital converter box which gets a wealth of interesting channels from all over the twin cities, including no fewer than 10 religious-themed channels, including JCTV — the Christian Action Sports Network. I watched this last year during thanksgiving and was straightaway mesmerized by the...
chicks, man.
So pretty much everywhere I go these days it feels like I hear the tamed down version of CeeLo’s “Fuck You” song — you know, the one where he crams two-two-two syllables into one and “Fuck” becomes “Forget.*” And while I admit the tune is way-catchy, the lyrics have started to strike me as the kind of thing written by a bitter, semi-virginal male...
we have no one to blame for the weather but...
So, right now I’m sitting in a coffee bar near my place of employ. There is an aging hippy guy sitting at the end of the bar with the local newspaper open up in front of him, and he’s reading the weather forecast for the next ten days EMPHATICALLY out loud to the barista. What is making me laugh is that he keeps shaking his head and punctuating the reading with loud, aggressive...
But I thought this was the year of the woman.
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=2&vote=00249
Not a single “R” in the “Yea” column. Ladies, the Republican Party told us we could just go fuck* ourselves, they’re more interested in being the party of “no.”
*Although we shouldn’t actually have sex because that would make us...
the test of true friendship
So while I did google “cake fart,” I didn’t click on any links because, well, along side all the links came up links to “Reaction Shots to Cake Farts.” And let me tell you, rule number ONE of the internet is DO NOT click on something that has YouTube reaction shots of people watching it. That means that the thing you are about to watch is exceptionally perverse and...
well now i'm going to google it.
I was googling a very simple request (cake recipes) and the google autofill brought up before cake recipes two options I could forsee (Cake Boss, Cake Wrecks) and one I could not: Cake Farts.
How many you weirdos are sitting around googling Cake Farts? And what IS a Cake Fart?
ETA: No. No I am not going to google it. Or I’m not going to watch anything that brings up a number of...
“To the straight people reading us: remember high school? Remember your favorite...”
– http://tomandlorenzo2.blogspot.com/2010/11/glee-s2e6-never-been-kissed.html
Tom and Lorenzo.
I don’t watch Glee, but I read their recap and this paragraph was so amazing.
query.
What if you got invited to a secret-sex-party masquerade and were instructed to go in a costume and you went in an unsexy costume? Like, dressed as a gorilla, or a bunch of grapes?
it will be a successful endeavor.
I think I’m going to start my own watchdog blog. The Go Fuck Yourself Watch. And the whole blog will be devoted to pointing out who I believe can go fuck themselves. It would be a very, very big blog.
If you haven’t noticed, lately I’ve been a malcontent.
“The definition of “civil” isn’t “never do anything that makes someone else...”
– http://pandagon.net/index.php/site/define_civility/
the progressive dad
I must thank whatever forces that be that my dad and mom are liberal. The common situation for progressives like me is that we have a conservative parent with whom we fight all the time. Not so with me. While many young liberals like me have parents who agree with 0% of their views, I have a dad who agrees 98% with my views. And we’re both so spirited about all of our beliefs that we...
American Aquarium Drinker: Other Headlines... →
daveholmes:
“Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis Should Have Used Mirth Control On ‘Due Date.’”
“‘Due Date’ Is A High-Risk Pregnancy, In That Director Todd Phillips Has Had Problems Carrying Movie Babies In The Past, Because Of A Thing With His Uterus, Which, I Don’t Know, YOU Ask Him.”
“‘Due Date’ Is…
way more information than I require
True confession: Without hesitating, I can name all of Anne Blythe’s (nee-Shirley) six children:
Jem Walter Nan Diana Shirley Rilla
Plus Joy, who only lived that one day.
Yep, there’s all that information, hanging out in my head.
better a socialist than a serf
Remember that this election was the first election after the LAUGHABLY named “Citizens United.” Remember that there are corporations that would rather pour countless dollars into purchasing an election than investing in the communities from which they obtain their consumer base and their workforce. Remember that some of these same corporations would rather pack up and ship these jobs...
“Lately I feel like somebody made a big mess and I’ve got my mop and I’m mopping...”
– Barack Obama
(sometimes this just needs to be posted).
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Obamacare
daveholmes:
Hearing a lot about Obamacare tonight, and how America is rebuking it, except where they aren’t, or whatever. Which reminds me of hearing about Romneycare, which reminds me of hearing about Hillarycare.
Why is it only health care reform that gets the cutesy, dismissive name that incorporates the politician standing most closely to it?
And how, using the same elocution, are we not...
i am a progressive, and i am sane.
I want to know the results of the gubernatorial race, but I’m tired of the weird mixed bag of the night. Also, four a.m. comes fast, and I’m sure to dream about politics — never fun for me. It’s going to be a strange and shitty couple of weeks before people realize we still have a long way to go, something I probably should have acknowledged two and four years ago. Back...
guess who got a sticker!
Apparently, I live in a very elderly district, or not enough people in their twenties get out to vote at 9am. At any rate, I was roughly half the age of everyone in my precinct today. Also, after two years since my last voting session, it turns out I forgot how ballot counters worked. THIS is why they have election volunteers. People who kindly lead the seemingly fully-functional adult female...
