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This morning, at Starbucks, I went up to the counter to get a coffee refill. As I handed the barista my cup, I removed the lid as that is often their request. She takes my cup and promptly throws it away. She then gets a new cup and "refills" my coffee, though I'm not technically [...]
Share on FacebookThe Answer Is: All of the Above
It probably won't surprise you to learn that I found this animated "quiz show" about contradictions in the bible rather amusing (not to mention how the winner was determined and what his prize was). Actually, I laughed audibly. I also quite liked the voice of the quiz-show host; is it someone I should recognize? [YouTube [...]
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To Be A Single Lady
Who could possibly be so cold-hearted that they would not feel an outpouring of sympathy for the plight of this young person, searching only for happiness but subjected to the whims of his gender-imperialist father? Bad father. [YouTube link for those who don't see the embedded player.] (H/T Joe.M.God) Share on Facebook
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Friday Soirée X: Stephen Fry is QI
I'm told that the internet is a morass, a quagmire of links into which, after just a few innocent clicks, one can disappear and never bee seen again. I'm usually much more focused in my clicking and manage to stay out of the quicksand and keep my head above water–except that tonight I succumbed. I [...]
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Fear of the Gay Penis
I think my favorite pull-quote from this brief video ("Ac**kalypse Now", from That's Gay), which makes mock of gay panic in the US military and fear of the gay penis, is: "Why go to a gay bar or log on to manhunt.com when you could fly to Afghanistan and risk your life just to sneak [...]
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Shopping Attire
Just this week I was having lunch and a man came into the shop wearing unusual flannel trousers, green flannel that was printed with little figures of some sort that I couldn't quite make out but that might have been teddy bears. Well! I thought, that's unusual. I hadn't seen flannel trousers quite like these [...]
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Professional Verbs
I was interested to discover that a number of things I have done professionally have no verbs. How did we ever get anything done? (Although, I also find it interesting that I've worked at times as an "engineer", whose professional noun is exactly the same as the verb of the professional activity, "to engineer".) It [...]
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Fiore's "Learn to Speak Tea Bag"
Well, gosh, word is (via Joe.My.God) that Mark Fiore's cartoon, "Learn to Speak Tea Bag", has caused some upset among conservative political extremists. Imagine! Is there, then, any better reason than that to do some viral spreading with this metaphorical blog sneeze? [YouTube link for those who don't see the embedded player.] Share on Facebook
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Death Metal Rooster
When 30 seconds of video makes me laugh this much, naturally I want to share the joy with all y'all who might not otherwise have this much fun today. Besides, it's my blog. [YouTube link for those who don't see the embedded player.] p.s. The music is original for this video. That is so cool. [...]
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"Perversion for Profit"
From about 1965, here is an hysterical "public-service" film which, today, seems reasonably amusing: "Perversion for Profit (Part I)". In it you will find out the "truth" about the perverting effects of pornography, particularly gay pornography with which, apparently, one glance turns the glancer into a twisted communist of some sort. It's worth keeping in [...]
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D'you Remember Joseph?
What happens when biblical literalism become biblical forgetfulness? Odd things certainly. Herewith a brief, heart-rending excerpt from an opinion piece by Chuck Norris (via Tinyfrog because I hate to link to the original): What would have happened if Mother Mary had been covered by Obamacare? What if that young, poor and uninsured teenage woman had [...]
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"Going Vogue"
I have to admit that I have never seen "RuPaul's Drag Race" on LOGO TV — for one thing, we don't have cable — but I'm thinking it must be lots of fun, largely on the strength of the promotional image below, which, we have to admit, is much, much, much more faaabulous than the [...]
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Things We're Not
I just got a call asking if I was the Humane Society. – James Howard I once had a phone conversation that went like this: Lady: Hello, I'm calling for Purple Heart. Me: I think you have the wrong number. Lady: What makes you think that? Me: Because I'm not Purple Heart. Lady: No, no, [...]
Share on FacebookChristmas Oddities
Isaac was obsessed today with finding another 15 feet of the silver garland he was using on the blue tree this year. We finally found some, I'm happy to say, so he's bearable to be around tonight. Anyway, our travels took us to Lowe's hardware store where two items in the seasonal shop caught my [...]
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Reading Louise Penny
My current bedtime mystery reading is A Rule Against Murder, by Louise Penny. Let's make that Canadian Louse Penny, for all my friends needing a suggestion for their Canadian Reading Challenge. Ms. Penny's books are set mostly in the village of Three Pines, Quebec, a village populated with the expected eccentric characters, some of whom [...]
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Prayer: Not Just for Straight People
Today, Jeremy at Good As You ("We're don't want to ruin your days, Linds. We also don't want you to ruin our marriages/truths/families/rights/protections") brought us the touching but inspiring story of one Lindsey Douthit, a concerned woman for America, who lives right here in the bowels of the liberal menace, Washington, DC. As the story [...]
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Friday Soirée VI: Something Lighter
Tonight I decided I needed a bit of levity, so humor (and "humour") is the theme. We have two very special guests to spend some time with: Anna Russell and Sir David Attenborough. Anna Russell Analyzes Wagner's Ring (Part 1) I expect I first found Anna Russell in my college days, thanks to friend and [...]
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Penn & Teller on Marriage Equality
As I have mentioned, Isaac and I do not have our finger on the pulse of American popular culture, in large part because we don't have cable television because we never watch television anyway. Thus, I didn't know that Penn & Teller have a series on Showtime called "Bullshit!". They do and I know it [...]
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Hitler Fatigue
Friends of mine who are of a certain age–hence, in their prime–who were active Usenet denizens in the early 1990s, are familiar with Godwin's Law from being there in the flame wars. In essence: the longer a Usenet discussion lasts, the probability of a comparison to Hitler approaches one. It is generally understood by all, [...]
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"It Should be Stopped"
I dislike taking an entire blog posting and quoting it; I hope I can be forgiven. I see no need to amplify this remark with any comment on the history of intellectual achievement in senators from Pennsylvania. "I am tired of all this thing called science. … We have spent millions in that sort of [...]
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