Entries from December 2008 ↓

This is an amazing app. Well worth the $1 I plunked down immediately for it, particularly when you forget to bring your dice to a D&D-or-other-gaming session. YouTube link

Reposting this fantastic amusing holiday message, because it has been stolen from the capitol building.

At this season of
THE WINTER SOLSTICE
may reason prevail.

There are no gods,
no devils, no angels,
no heaven or hell.
There is only our natural world.
Religion is but
myth and superstition
that hardens hearts,
and enslaves minds.

I fully agree with the bit about religion, but I am not a strict atheist, I simply don’t let the possibility of such supernatural unknowables affect my personal decisions.

Hopefully whatever small-minded jackass stole this sign is thoroughly lashed for denying thousands of their fellow citizens of their first amendment rights.

Let’s “celebrate” with an interesting dissenting post by Paul Varnell.

Below is a particularly interesting tidbit:

Many people seem to care more about AIDS abroad than in the U.S. President Bush has sponsored billions of dollars in funding to prevent AIDS in third-world countries, but said little abut AIDS in the U.S. Some evangelical churches are involved in helping to combat AIDS abroad, but show no interest in AIDS in the U.S. It seems clear that they are interested in helping heterosexuals abroad, but want nothing to do with homosexuals in the U.S.

Indeed, working toward the solution to a problem when the American public are concerned seems to be to distance it from homosexuality in general. It’s not filthy filthy fags having anal sex that you’re helping, it’s poor sick African children who contracted HIV from a blood transfusion! [insert sound of checks being written.]

This same approach was tried, and failed, in regards to Prop 8. Turning a gay rights issue into a civil rights issue [in television ads] doesn’t convince the religious bigots who are so dead-set against equal rights for homosexuals. They don’t understand it as a civil rights issue because they cannot identify the importance of it, as they do not understand what it is to have less rights than others. Even some groups who should, seem to be unable to reconcile these similarities.