Not to mention “Come” and “Pussy Control”…I knew that Prince had been getting weird, but the tale of his descent into Jehovah’s Witlessness and his newfound contempt for homosexuals is really depressing. It’s true. Religion poisons everything.
I’ve still got a hard disk stuffed full of lubricious silkiness from before his brain rot, at least.
It isn’t so good for a fellow’s sanity to get the full dose of my inbox all at once, rather than spread out over four days. I got my mail working again a little while ago, and just browsed through some of the crazy stuff you people send me. Be amused.
A priest dared to ordain women. He’s getting a reward, though: he’s being excommunicated.
A priest denies communion to Obama supporters. He’s intrinsically evil.
I have to give the Pastor Ray Mummert award to the Bishop of Lancaster, who has declared that the problem with the church is all those darned educated people who aren’t attending Mass.
Maybe I should find a case of a commentator saying something nice about someone. How about this? Sarah Palin is the incarnation of “practical common sense conservatism”. Well, you all know what I think of conservatism.
People are worried about the “mark of the beast”? Really? A company that makes recognition systems tries to preempt concerns that their devices are tools of the devil by making a suggestion in all seriousness that people should use their left hand in their scanners, because the bible says the mark is on the right. Little do they know but that agents of the anti-christ will be observing scanner use and writing down the names of anyone who uses the wrong hand in their satanic machines.
And of course I’m still getting lots of loony Catholic email over crackers. This one from a Catholic priest, I thought, was amusing.
What about eucharistic miracles that have happened in our own times?
http://www.dsanford.com/miraclehost.html
this one was actually verified by a scientific team and some video footage.Also, my patron saint, saint joseph of cupertino (1603-1663), would levitate as he consecrated the host at Mass, this was witnessed by many people including the pope of the time and other secular leaders. he also performed other miracles just like all the official catholic saints …
I think “just like all the official catholic saints” is the operative phrase here. Cheap tricks in front of credulous audiences…just like all of them.
This old-school public service announcement is warning of the dangers of smut—and for some reason it’s illustrated with a many-tentacled cephalopod hovering above my state. Prophecy?
There are more strange PSAs collected online.
The bigotry is going too far. Now the Diocese of Bath and Wells has banned garden gnomes from their cemeteries. What are we to do with the poor wee buggers, then? Let them rot in the streets?
I do appreciate the excuse given, though.
A spokesman for the Diocese of Bath and Wells said: “There is no such thing as a real gnome so why should we have such unnatural creatures in churchyards?”
Indeed. And what of the unnatural creatures that stock the interior of the churches?
It’s cute: this exercise in molecular visualization has been all dolled up with anthropomorphized atoms to sneak it into kids’ attention spans.
I can’t be entirely dismissive, though. There’s some cool stuff lurking in the backgrounds of these scenes, it’s just unfortunate that the goofy cartoon stuff is always being placed front and center.
I am kind of hoping that the creationists, with all their talk of cars and buses and traffic lights in the cell, steal this video. I can almost imagine Michael Behe exclaiming that the sophisticated facial expressions of atoms are evidence of intent and design.
It’s a landslide victory! Obama gets 62% of the vote in World of Warcraft!
I guess it isn’t that surprising that a poll of game players might get results that reflect the real world vote, but the strange thing is that there were some game-associated differences. People playing the Horde side (undead, orcs, that sort of thing) were mostly for Obama, while those on the Alliance side (humans, elves, dwarves) gave more mixed results, with dwarves being the only group that favored McCain. There’s a joke lurking in there, I’m sure…I just can’t think what it would be.
All we have to do now is make sure short people aren’t allowed to vote in the presidential election.
Is there something the Catholics are keeping secret? Because I don’t want to even imagine this ritual.
You may all recall that a certain bad movie was released in mid-April…a movie which I have not yet seen, but which is now available on DVD. I was just at the local gas station/grocery store/video store, and there it was, available right there on the shelf. I considered it for a few minutes, and then, since I was paying for gas anyway, I tossed it on the counter and brought it home. Yeah, I know, I wasted $2.12, but it’s about time I got it over with.
I’m about to sit down and watch it. I figure one way I can recoup my investment is by live-blogging it.
And she pronounces it good. Perhaps Larry will appreciate this: I have video evidence of Skatje getting her breakfast at…Tim Hortons!
Larry also has photos from my talk in Toronto.
There’s some weird video game coming out, called Heaven: the Game. It has a fairly elaborate web site, but it fails to say how you play the silly thing (I suspect you don’t get to form an army and assault the throne of heaven…). It does have lots of shots of the scenery, which finally reveals the Christian vision of paradise.
It looks a lot like an even more opulent version of the Vatican, populated with flexible, dewy porn stars. It’s actually not bad.
