Naked Intolerance

Here’s another episode of religious zealots piss me off. There’s a movement called Dutch Christian Natureists. They like to do their church services in the nude at nudist parks. Their feeling is “Hey. If Adam and Eve started off stark naked and it wasn’t all weird, why can’t we celebrate our bodies?” Hey, nothin’ wrong …

If You Get Flesh-Eating Disease, It’s Good To Have Extra Flesh For It To Eat

Ok, cue the Steve jokes from everybody else who likes to make them. We always hear about how being fat can kill you. Well, if you get flesh-eating disease, you’d better hope you packed on the pounds because that extra flubber might save your organs. How often do you hear a story like this? But …

I Looked At What?

Here’s the sequel to the whole filtering out sites that seem to have obscene words in them saga. Now, some numbnut was ordered to go through the Tampa fire station computers looking for evidence that firefighters were looking at porn. How were they doing this? They were looking for files that contained the words “gay,” …

They Must Have Been Sleeping On The Job To Let Him Sleep At That Hotel

Wow. This is the stupidest decision I’ve heard in a long time. Hackney Council, uK, thought a fine place for a convicted rapist and stalker was in the same hotel which is housing a bunch of battered wives. They moved him out of there because of concerns for *his* safety. What about the safety of …

Il Internet è una serie di tubi

That was a cobbled translation of “The Internet is a series of tubes” into Italian. I don’t know how well I did, I used Babelfish after all. This is a warning to all bloggers in Italy. your blog could send you to jail. Yeah, a judge as uninformed as Ted Stevens decided that since a …

Get To Know Your Candidates…A Day Late

Carin just brought to my attention a boneheaded bit of election scheduling. I sent her a quick note to let her know that our local all candidates debatewill be on Rogers Television Tuesday October 7th at 7 PM.She’s got a better memory than I do and she kind of serves as my pocket organizer, so …

You Can’t Hide Your Gun Anymore, So Feel Free To Wave It Around

I don’t understand U.S. gun laws. I just don’t. Here’s the story. Meleanie Hain, who has a concealed weapons permit, goes to her five-year-old daughter’s soccer game, openly carrying a loaded weapon. Other parents found this to be kinda disconcerting. They told the coach. He told her to move. She wasn’t happy with that. Later, …