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Legislating Happiness: Why?

Posted by bongo on June 4th

Read More: Politics, Religion, Breaking News

States like Massachusetts, California and New York have begun reluctantly allowing folks to seek a gay marriage. This is an outrage! There is no reason for these states, or any states, to force an expectation of happiness onto any bickering couple of disgruntled partners. If people want to despise each other, if they insist on hating, then by all means, it is their God-given right to loathe their very existence!

Passing legislation mandating joy and happiness is beyond comprehension. Just because it’s in the constitution doesn’t make it any more right! Even if everyone on earth were married there would be only a handful of couples who would declare their marriage to be gay.

The rest of us? We’d be working on the honey-do list…or working to avoid it! By definition, the very nature of settling down with one other living creature for the remainder of our lives is flawed. Wolves seem to practice serial monogamy. But only you and me - FOREVER!? It’s madness. It’s a bad song from the 50s. It is fitting that in the animal kingdom only a vicious species of wild canine are one of the few examples of monogamy. I doubt that they are happily monogamous. It is likely that their monogamy is what drives their viciousness.

There is no such thing as a gay marriage. You can legislate all you want, you simply cannot people to be happy! By definition, once you are married, there is no happiness. There is no joy. In the end, your only joy from the imprisonment of marriage is the silent release of death. Once you are released from your earthly bondage, any happiness you were forced to enjoy through legislation won’t matter anyway.

“Vertical thinking” and other rhetorical code

Posted by nikki on January 8th
Read More: Politics, Religion, Rhetoric

Check out this post on “vertical thinking” and other rhetorical code. And when you sit down to watch the next debate, don’t forget to break out your super-secret decoder rings!

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Holy Highway!

Posted by Czech Air on December 6th
Read More: Religion

The Holy Highway!

Did you know we lived so close to greatness? Fire! Fire! I can’t wait to be saved by these do-gooders. Get on board the movement, people. Save your soul! FIRE!

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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night!

Posted by bongo on April 25th
Read More: Technology, Pop-Culture, Religion, Science, Arbitrary conclusions, Off Topic, Sci-Fi, Breaking News, No Shit, Rhetorical Questions, War, Poetry, Battlestar Galactica, Scary

Beam me up!Scientists have announced that a new rock floating through space, Gliese 581 c may be a habitable planet. If this is the case, we will need to start thinking about ways to get there. Hell, we’ve been thinking about it as a species for years but we need to put aside social and political differences and really work toward finding a way to migrate to a new habitable planet. We don’t even need to live there really. We just need to be able to grow food on the planet until we find more planets capable of sustaining life.

Once we discover a planet capable of supporting farming, we can send our robo-workers to do do all the heavy lifting and humans will make future livings as Teamsters. Only we’ll all be piloting space ships delivering foodstuffs and repair parts back and forth. Ice Pirates anyone? It may have been an entertaining farce in 1984, but if we as the human race want to go out with a bang, not a whimper, then we really need to start making real progress into deep-space exploration and migration.

We need inter-galactic spaceships capable of traversing millions of miles a la Battlestar Galactica and Star Trek.

Think of it as science fiction if you must…but things change. Sometimes, fantastic stories that were once considered fiction lead to discovery.

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“Ismail Ax” Let the hating begin

Posted by Oscar on April 17th
Read More: Politics, Religion, Memes, Natural Disasters, Breaking News, neocons, Large Gathering of Idiots, Scary, Sad, Depressing, Red Herring

It was just released on the washington post site that the “gunman” Cho Seung-Hui at V-tech had written “Ismail Ax” on the inside of his arm.  This is some sort of reference to Ibrahim who used it in a violent manner to allow Islam to flourish.

This development will give this story a fairly long tail and really help the fear-mongering of the admin.  In addition I’m worried that we’ll see further justification for some of the more odious aspects of the patriot act…  It’s going to get ugly.  Buckle up.

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Bong Hits For Jesus

Posted by bongo on March 19th
Read More: Politics, Religion

The reason I am watching the “Bong Hits for Jesus” case is two-fold:

1. I find great humor in the fact that the kid had a fourteen foot banner with those words on it, and,

2. It could be an indicator of how conservative the Supreme Court has become.

For me, the case is clear. The kid didn’t break any rules and wasn’t on school property when he unfurled his sign. On the other hand, he wasn’t at a downtown parade or at some other public use area away from his high school, he specifically did it near the high school which could be construed as an action intended to cause a disruption, if however minor.

I was always more subtle with my disruptions. I generally try to work within the rules to bend them as opposed to outright rebellion.

In the end, I think the Supreme Court will determine no harm, no foul. Sure, the kid got suspended…but in the end, isn’t that what he was looking for?

He caused a ruckus and got a free vacation so he could sit at home and take Bong Hits for Jesus. Too bad he was also pig-headed enough to waste taxpayer money to taking it to court.

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Crazy Beard

Posted by bongo on February 19th
Read More: Religion, Rhetorical Questions

Nutjob PriestWhy is it when people decide that they need to kill someone in the name of God, they almost always have an extreme beard? Daniel Petru Corogeanu conspired with four nuns to exorcise a demon from another nun.

The nun being “exorcised” died.

Will a future “Book of Daniel” document these people as killers or martyrs?

In 2005, how can people believe that chaining someone up and starving them to death will exorcise a demon?

Three-hundred years ago we had the Salem Witch Trials. It all looks barbaric now. Dunking a suspected witch to determine whether or not one has been practicing witchcraft seems ridiculous but here we are in an entirely new millennium and we have people passing judgment and killing other people in the name of God.

Thank God for freedom of religion!

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Interplanet Janet, She’s a Galaxy Girl!

Posted by bongo on January 2nd
Read More: Pop-Culture, Religion, Science, Sci-Fi, Mixed Nuts, Not True

Apparently UFO is SO last century…now we have to call them UAPs. Well, whatever. But it does seem that a dozen or so employees out at O’Hare witnessed a UAP event last November. The story is getting a little national coverage and some international, but not in the sense that it is being taken seriously.

For some reason, it’s hard to get taken seriously when you claim to have seen little green men. The FAA’s official statement delivered by Elizabeth Isham Cory discounted any suggestions of UFOs or UAPs:

That night was a perfect atmospheric condition in terms of low [cloud] ceiling and a lot of airport lights. When the lights shine up into the clouds, sometimes you can see funny things. That’s our take on it.

I wouldn’t go so far as to claim we are being observed by little green men, but I would go as far as to say I believe that it is likely that humans are not the most advanced carbon-based life form hurling through the universe.

If the world can be created in seven days who knows what else is possible? It wouldn’t surprise me that if there were a technologically advanced society observing humankind, they would certainly not attempt to make contact with a barbaric species that seems hell-bent on killing themselves off.

Oh, and according to SunriseSunset.com, the sun set at 4:39pm in Chicago on November 7, 2006 so technically, it was still daylight when the event occurred.

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Complete Stupidity on Evangelical’s Part

Posted by Czech Air on December 3rd
Read More: Religion

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. It seems that a pentecostal is a pentecostal is a pentecostal no matter where you are in the world whether it is in America’s Bible Belt or in the heat of Kenya. Progressive-thinking, hell, normal-thinking Americans have long had to put up with the childish antics of evangelical leaders and their efforts to rid the country’s schools of (gasp!) the Theory of Evolution. However, the one thing largely absent from this debate in the United States is the fossil record showing the evolutionary progress of hominids. The proof is all around us that evolution takes place and has taken place in regard to life on Earth be it moths of humans.

However, Kenya’s Pentecostals want to turn back the clock on scientific progress and make sure the world never sees the fossil record supporting evolution again. A museum in Kenya with an extensive collection of hominid fossils is set to reopen and plans on featuring the fossils prominently within its walls. Not if the backwards Christians of Kenya have their way, though.

From the article:

Leaders of Kenya’s Pentecostal congregation, with six million adherents, want the human fossils de-emphasized.

“The Christian community here is very uncomfortable that Leakey and his group want their theories presented as fact,” said Bishop Bonifes Adoyo, head of the largest Pentecostal church in Kenya, the Christ is the Answer Ministries.

“Our doctrine is not that we evolved from apes, and we have grave concerns that the museum wants to enhance the prominence of something presented as fact which is just one theory,” the bishop said.

Bishop Adoyo said all the country’s churches would unite to force the museum to change its focus when it reopens after eighteen months of renovations in June 2007. “We will write to them, we will call them, we will make sure our people know about this, and we will see what we can do to make our voice known,” he said.

Wow. I wonder when this will happen in American museums? I am sure we are only a matter of months away before large protests could be staged at famed museums like Chicago’s Field Museum, right? The museum has quite the display of Neanderthals. What about all the dinosaur bones at museums across the country? What are we to do about those?

Will there be covert evangelical teams infiltrating museums trying to sabotage fossil records?

Am I going to have to make signs that say “Keep you hands on my science”? I hope not.

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Monday Night Salvation

Posted by bongo on November 28th
Read More: Religion, Off Topic

The goddamned Jesus freaks are beating on my door. They want to come in and ram a bottle of 100% pure salvation down my throat even though they know it will kill me. I saw one last week following me. At first I thought she was just another chubby girl who wanted to sleep with me. It happens you know. It has something to do with my girth and my penchant for telling them I love them. It’s not that I love them specifically…it’s just that I love ALL women. It’s not like I try to get them to follow me, they just do. I ran down the street - very slowly. After all, I am a fat man. I slowly scurried down the street and ducked into the nearest Wal-Mart. One thing was certain…if she followed me in she would find plenty of soulless bastards to save and would soon forget about me. That’s not quite how it worked out. They descended on my house around 7am tonight. I was settling down for a mellow evening of Monday Night Football. For grins and giggles I put on some easy listening jazz music in the background and I was going to read some Heinlein. It’s not that I subscribe to his political ideas but the world would be a hell of a lot better off if we could keep the goddamned Christians out of our fucking politics and let Veterans of actual WARS run things awhile! You wouldn’t find us caught in any quagmires with any social or political fallout because they would FUCKING THINK about an end game before they committed young men and women to DIE in a foreign land. That reminds me, who’s going to gang-bang Lulu when we’re all overseas? I hope some skinny peckered civilian is up to the task. They all make me sick, but at least they don’t try to pour Salvation down my throat in the guise of cheap wine and flatbread. Initially, I opened the door. When I saw their flaming eyes and the black flesh falling away from their skin, I screamed, slammed the door and locked the deadbolt. It wasn’t what they expected. They knew I was in here. They have been tracking my movements possibly for months. I lit a cigarette. I don’t smoke, but I hoped the smell of fire and brimstone would scare them off. It only increased their presence. I heard them calling someone. I got the garden hose from the basement and hooked it up to the washtub. As they were prowling about outside I opened one of my basement windows and sprayed them screaming, “Get the fuck off my property! I’m a fucking Buddhist! I don’t want to be saved!” They screamed and hollered, “Jesus is the way!” I yelled, “Fuck you!” They started singing Amazing Grace and moved away from the range of my water hose. I yelled out that my soul was lost in the desert when I was alone. I was walking along a forgotten dune in a forgotten country and I was nearly out of water. I came across a small dog who said, “I am here for your soul”. I told him to get lost. He did…but not before he bit me. It hurt like hell. The only pain comparable is a rotting tooth. The pain of a rotting tooth will make you wish for death. It will make you want to take a dry stick and pound it into your mouth in order to drive the rotten tooth from your gum-line. If you’re lucky…you will accomplish just that. If not, well…you die. I scrambled up to my attic where I could observe the Christians lurking about the shadows. They’re still there. I think they’re channeling the squirrels to spy on me. That’s kind of weird and sort of witchcrafty… I wouldn’t expect Christians to resort to voodoo but in this time of Salvation they’ll try any damned trick. The end apparently justifies the means. I don’t know what I am going to do. I am digging in. I have a water supply. I have food. I have a secret entrance. I don’t want to use it except as a last resort. Once I use the secret entrance they’ll know where it is and they’ll be waiting for me next time. It’s not that I don’t love them. I do. I really do. I love them more than they will ever love Jesus. I just despise their tactics. They’ll lie and cheat because to them the end really does justify the means. It’s not going to happen. I am locked in and loaded for bear. They’ll never take me alive.

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Phish reunites to tour in 2009. - #

Here's a helpful and depressing tutorial on the current financial crapstorm, in cartoon form. I'm having a hard time figuring out who did the video, but it was linked to on Cosmic Variance. - #

MoveOn.org is giving away free Obama buttons. Almost 2 million ordered so far. - #

If I had married Tea Leoni and starred in film and TV with Gillian Anderson, I would have the exact same problem. How many love children do you have David? - #