Shorter Neo-NeoCon:
The Michelle Obama “whitey” tape doesn’t exist. But if it did, it would just confirm what a hateful, racist bitch I already think she is.
God, this is going to be a long five months.
“I’m not much for marriage, period, wanting to keep the state out of my life, despite the benefits they dangle to entice one into it, but everyone should have access to it if they like. It’s just a civil contract. Not letting some random set of people enter into one is the same as saying blonde people can’t buy property, or tall people can’t get a dog license. It’s just silly to have an arbitrary restriction just because a few crazies are so uneasy about their own sexuality.”
-Balloon Juice commenter Darkness, on the recent California gay marriage decision
UPDATE: Another good one, from the same thread:
“When the Dobsonites talk about family and marriage, they really mean patriarchy. And yes, gay marriage, birth control, women’s rights and so on are a serious challenge to patriarchy and male privilege.
If you can’t successfully condemn and stigmatize the sluts who reject straight male control and the faggots who won’t knuckle under to patriarchal sex roles, then the patriarchal project is facing doom. That, to them, is the death of marriage and godliness.”
After watching the mid-season finale of Battlestar Galactica, I have so many questions that remain unresolved, I hardly know where to begin. Watchers of BSG, should there be any who come by here – what’s your take?
Other mundane questions are bound to be answered: What happened to Earth? Who/what is the final Cylon? But to me these have become almost uninteresting, compared to the many mysteries that remain from what we’ve already seen. I appreciate ambiguity, and not wrapping everything up with a big red bow like Hollywood tends to do. But leaving so many threads out there is irritating, especially because overall the show is so brilliant.
My choice for the Final Cylon? Admiral Helena Cain.
Since Dean is my latest new reader of and commenter on Mighty Forces (!), I couldn’t resist the humor of his latest concern troll post about Barack Obama.
“One of the things I don’t much like anymore about politics is the tendency to be hyper-negative and to pounce on every mis-statement or fumble as proof of something profound.”
He then links to the Obama Gaffe Blog, without a hint of irony. The site isn’t so much about gaffes as it is about how the writer doesn’t like Obama. I won’t link to it, because I *actually* dislike gotcha politics. Dean, however, not so much.
A breath of fresh air in a sea of overcooked remakes, “Kung Fu Panda” is sweet, funny, and a treat for the eyes. Jack Black dials himself back just enough to let his character shine through, and the secondary voices (Angelina Jolie, Dustin Hoffman, Ian McShane and others) are great. One of the best things about the movie is that it doesn’t try to be “hip” by loading up on contemporary pop culture references (*cough* Shrek *cough*). It’s confident enough in its charms to just let everything play out, in a way that won’t go stale in a couple of years. Highly recommended.
I’ve come to realize something I don’t like about my new PressBox theme – in order to leave a comment, you have to click on the title to go to the specific screen for the post, and then comment. You also can’t see on the main page if anyone else has already commented, which is likely to keep people from commenting in general.
I hope anyone reading will still comment when the mood strikes, until I can get this worked out.
My old “friend” Dean Esmay, who takes iconoclasm to new, absurd heights every day, has come up with a mind-bending whopper: he has his own theory why the sky is blue, and isn’t at all convinced by the elitist accepted orthodoxy that we’ve all been handed by the “science” community. Well, good for him.
Did I ever tell you how the earth is resting on the back of a giant turtle? Disprove that, Stephen Hawking!
UPDATE: Make sure to check the comments on Dean’s post, where people trying to drag him back into science just make him dig in even further. Oxygen is BLUE, damnit! And he doesn’t care what egghead says otherwise. In other news, a prism is actually rainbow-colored.
This is why so many people don’t believe in evolution. And while it’s funny, in a way, it’s also really sad.
On John McCain’s weird “you kids get off my lawn” speech last night, courtesy of Economist.com:
“There’s one surprise: The terrifying death rictus grin-and-snicker after every joke line. I don’t know whether Americans are ready to vote for Mr McCain, but I am prepared to pay him one million dollars not to release deadly Smilex gas over the New Year’s Eve crowd at midnight.”
The Rude Pundit on Barack Obama asking Hillary Clinton to be his VP:
“It’d be a big, stupid mistake, akin to a family of lemurs inviting a boa constrictor over for dinner.”
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