Gratuitous Common Sense

It’s about time! Finally, someone has offered to help the seriously afflicted, like Jackie Chan, and Margaret Cho, and maybe part of Soledad O’Brien (who knows? I mean, really).

Thankya Jeeesus!

“Curing” Ted Haggard in three weeks, instead of the usual 4.5 years, has emboldened Christians, and they now have the balls to think they can counsel the genetics right out of you. I can’t wait to see the first success story!

Actually, to be honest, the billboard above was probably changed to illustrate the fact that homosexuals don’t choose to be gay any more than Asians choose to be Asian. Both people who read this blog are already aware of that fact, so I’ll refrain from pulling out the multiple sources that show it’s a natural ‘phenomenon’. That’s a moot point anyway.

What really needs to be done is to get people to stop thinking solely in terms of sexual activity when it comes to homosexuality, as if that’s all that matters in a homosexual relationship. A lot of people, especially those that have a problem with it, think of it as a kind of hedonistic orgy of rebellion and sexual hegemony, but never bother to consider any other kinds of attraction that two people can have between each other. Their problem with homosexuality isn’t that two people are emotionally, psychologically, and physically attracted to or in love with each other. Their problem is that they act on it, like any heterosexual couple would, by having sex.

In other words, it’s okay for two men (or women) to love each other, as long as they don’t have sex (or get “married” in the eyes of the state). Sure they’ll find a euphemism for their motive, like “traditional family values”, but to those that have a problem with it, it’s all about the sex. And as long as that is allowed to continue, homosexuality will be brushed off, subjugated, and easily classified as less genuine than heterosexual relationships. And people like those in the Truth Ministry will continue to think it’s something to be cured.

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I’m not much for tests, and quizzes, and other internet meme. But I saw Dante’s Inferno Test at Mike’s Weekly Skeptic Rant, and I just couldn’t resist.

Apparently, my lack of remorse for doing the things I want to do is earning me a ticket to the second level of hell. Who knew?

Or perhaps it was that weekend at the zoo, hhmmmm.

The wretched King Minos has decided your fate. His tale wraps around his body 2 times.
The sweet light no longer strikes against your eyes. Your shade has been banished to… the Second Level of Hell!

The Dante’s Inferno Test has banished you to the Second Level of Hell!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:

Take the Dante’s Inferno Hell Test

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Ever since Ray Comfort of Kirk Cameron so eloquently argued for the seemingly perfect design of the banana, Atheists have been running around like mad trying to explain away the purported divine inspiration. Ray and Kirk dubbed the banana “The Atheist’s Nightmare”, and indeed it seems they were right.

Atheists scrambled for a response, like neo-cons looking for a war, and offered crazy claims about humans cultivating the banana over thousands of years. As if that wasn’t, itself, part of God’s plans. pssshh. Crazy Atheists!

Still they pressed on, and the banana continued to haunt them as they attacked the intelligence of Mr. Comfort and Sir Cameron. They even likened them to the primates that feast on the banana. Ah, the last gasp of the dying argument, ad hominem attacks.

The Atheists were stuck. They were cornered, with nowhere to turn…

until one evil Atheist grocer found a way.

Atheists respond, ironically, with one of their oldest and most basic tactics - denying the banana ever existed:

Hark! Those clever bastards! They had nearly been snuffed out by their nightmares of bananas, but it seems they live to fight another day.

You win this round Atheists… you win this round.

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Mwahahahahaha!

Meh, it’s the weekend… and it’s warm outside.

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This is probably going around in an email chain, but I thought it funny enough to post. As we all know, Google Maps gives directions for getting from one place to another. And if you’re looking for directions from New York to London, you better be in damn good shape…

Notice Step #23, and make sure you don’t miss that slight right at E05. That would be disastrous!

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I guess you could call it a theory. I’ve tried to describe it in words before, but I just had to post this, as it’s a perfect illustration of the relativity of Common Sense.

Available at XKCD

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I was being bored, using my Firefox plugin, StumbleUpon, when I came across an article by Amy Dickinson in the January 6, 2007 edition of the Chicago Tribune. Amy Dickinson is an advice columnist who offered up what is, quite possibly, the world’s worst sex advice ever… ever.

For fun and to try to mix this up a little, you two might develop a verbal or visual cue that is more subtle than simply asking for sex. For instance, when one of you mentions Vice President Richard Cheney, that’s your code.

If you didn’t know any better, you might think she was trying to sabotage their marriage in an astronaut-like attempt to steal the husband. I, personally, cannot think of a more inappropriate, libido-stifling cue than what Amy has offered here. Whatever the case, you can be sure she wasn’t trying to help.

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I’ve seen plenty of posts about the relatively new Conservapedia , and felt little reason to comment on it myself. However, with my discovery of the new GodTube, I am convinced that the Christian fundamentalists behind these sites are quickly becoming their own worst enemy.

I present exhibit A…

Nevermind that the banana he is using in his divine demonstration is a direct result of human engineering and 7000 years of cultivation for smaller seeds and a tastier banana, in much the same way we have cultivated seedless grapes and watermelons. The comments on the video’s page tell much of the story.

Like I said, their own worst enemy.

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