It's the works.

[silveradept]

First, a correction. Rather than be a secular organization and not take the chance that toy Jesuses might end up in non-Christian households, Toys for Tots took the whole load, likely because of pressure somewhere. So we’ll see whether they end up in households this VEWPRF.

Second, something important to the Ann Arbor and University of Michigan football fans everywhere: Bo Schembechler is dead at 77.

Third, happy birthday, thalass.

Then, idiocy. A CNN commentator tells a Muslim congressman, "Prove to me you're not a towel-headed terrorist.". Well, that’s not the exact quote, but it’s the gist of it. Maybe he’ll ask the same question of the Dalai Lama, because the Dalai Lama asked for Saddam's life to be spared. In a crusade the U.S. should be waging and isn’t, Kofi Annan says that climate change should be debated at the top levels of government.

The USDA tells us that nearly 11 percent of Americans have "low" or "very low food security". Even with the new definitions, the truth still remains - some people can’t put food on their table consistently. Perhaps it will ease a bit with the general charitability that’s supposed to happen around this time of year, but this people could probably use to have some of the multibillions being spent in pork and contracts diverted to ensure they’re fed.

In case you should happen to be a volunteer in an extraterrestrial experiment, if your researchers have forgotten your star system, you can point them back to Earth with the Earth Bound Dog Tag.

A Slate commentator says WoW sucks, because it's a static world. There’s no interesting dynamic ideas, like the sewer-powered heat exchange system, robot cars driving through the desert, and other such things.

VHS is dead, declares Variety. For a format, thirty years is a nice life, but apparently, we all need to get our stuff together and migrate over to DVDs and digital formats.

The account of My Half-Year of Hell With Christian Fundamentalists may be a pretty accurate picture of how the outside world sees America in general. With the President appointing someone with a dim view of contraceptives to the directorship of Health and Human Services, one wonders whether the picture they paint really is accurate. (Then again, we do sell suspiciously phallic-like children's toys, too.) Well, considering Pakistan just removed the death penalty for adultery, maybe we’re making more progress than we think.

Role-playing games can influence us, according to Key23, and depending on what we want to do with our lives and psyches, this may be a good thing. Thinking, according to Robert Grudin, is even better, and thinking is what matters. Or should matter to the culture.

Last bit, Campus police taser a student multiple times, apparently for not being able to produce an identification card fast enough. I don’t have the video links, but from the descriptions, it sounds pretty brutal.

Although that’s definitely a sour note, I’m going to bed.

Comments

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

*pokes at you*

When there's not going to be a third party reading over your shoulder, I'd like to converse with you. Kay?

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

Since it's rather obvious you are referring to me, I'm going to reply to you. I do not sit and "read over his shoulder". The set up of his bedroom is such that if I'm on the bed with my laptop and he's at his desk using his computer and I look up, I see his monitor. Or, if we're looking at something on his computer, I might happen to see things. And I might say to him "oh, when you get a chance, tell so-and-so something for me". But we're not deliberately having me "read over his shoulder", and if there was content he felt I shouldn't see, I'm sure he'd avoid looking at it while I was close enough to see.

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

Well, given that you were TYPING on his computer (or so I assumed, from the fact that you were saying things on IRC) I rather thought that at least some of the time you were, in fact, actually sitting in front of his computer and looking at his computer screen.

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

The time I changed his nick to mine? yes, i was sitting there, he was at class, and I was ignoring all channels other than the one i joined as me, but I think we parted me from them all.

any other time, he's been typing what i dictate.

[greyweirdo.livejournal.com]

Of course the Jesus toys might never end up in the hands of the poor. I've too many times heard about the people running Toys for Tots using it as their own private shopping center. At least once a year that story rears it's head.

[silveradept]

In this particular case, I might be inclined to look the other way. I'm sure there would be someone raising a holler if their child got a Mohammed or Buddha doll in their superChristian household.

[rimspace.livejournal.com]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g7zlJx9u2E

Yes, it is.

[blacktigr.livejournal.com]

...jeezus h. christ.

This is where I interject that I haven't met a single cop that didn't have some sort of authority problem. After enough times of them pulling me over for no reason, I started to hate cops. (No, I am not part of a racial profiling demographic. I *looked* nervous.)

[silveradept]

Oh, Great Goddess. Brutal doesn't begin to describe what happened there.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Russet and I were watching The Daily Show last night and saw a clip where the Islamic congresscritter was accused of being Al Quaeda. Very funny stuff. But I thought it was another congresscritter that made the accusation. I would say that I'll try to catch the show Monday, which would repeat Thursday's show, but that's our travel day and that probably won't happen.

[uncle-pervy.livejournal.com]

Found out about Bo's death Friday Afternoon...just when you thought the rivalry between U of M & "That School Down South" couldn't get any hotter you see the next notch being brought in. Makes me kind of sad that I'm gonna miss it for the JAMS screening from 12-5 on Saturday.

That thing with Glenn Beck demanding a loyalty test of the Minnesota Congressman is just pathetic, but if all else fails he can pull a "Rush" and say he didn't mean to say all that crap: he was forced to question a congressman's loyalty to America and his constituents due to his Muslim faith.

In the end...why not just let everyone launch their nukes and glass the planet? If they do, I ask that they just wait until Sunday so I can have time to enjoy watching the recorded UM/OSU game.

Vaya con Dios, Bo.

[yarha.livejournal.com]

If Jesus doesn't give Pat Robertson some money, he will definitely call his toys home. Or something like that.

Yarha, Jesus Needs Toyz, Too

[thalass.livejournal.com]

Fark. I heard about the taser thing yesturday, I think. The campus cops were doing a random ID check to make sure people were students, this guy either couldn't or wouldn't produce his student ID or something. That's still no reason to grab someone who is leaving as requested and electrocute him several times. Doesn't being tasered for prolonged periods of time cause neurological damage?


Also: Thanks, matey! :D

[thalass.livejournal.com]

Oh! And Mel has one of those aquapets in Oz. It's just some bug thing on strings, but it's pretty nifteh. And rather phalic-looking indeed. :P

[silveradept]

I'm pretty sure that someone's tried to use that thing in the more phallic application somewhere. It boggles the mind.