August 29, 2005

• Fred Phelps, a member of the church that frequently claims “God Hates Fags” in frequently extra-specially callous methods is at it again. This time he’s targeting dead soldiers.

  I hate hate. I am intolerant to intolerance. I certainly can’t say I never display either trait, but I dislike it in myself as much as in anyone else.

  As to the whole “God hates fags” sentiment, I recently heard a pretty good take on it. To paraphrase:
  

  I don’t have a problem with God, but his fan club can really tick me off sometimes.

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  Speaking of God, I meant to post this last week, but in the meantime, a lot of people have beat me to it.

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  When I first heard about the Intelligent Design being taught in public schools, I thought it was one of the “renaming PI” sort of things. A short lived movement of scientifically illiterates that wasn’t going to go anywhere.

  Turns out, I was wrong. Rather than getting into details on it, I’d recommend reading Bobby Henderson’s letter to the Kansas School Board at http://www.venganza.org/. Not only is Flying Spaghetti Monsterism (or Pastafarianism) a lovely way to explain the issue, the “tenants” of the religion are hilarious, and reading the letter gets pretty damn funny. I mean, really, how many letters have a “Global Average Temperature Vs. Number of Pirates” graph?

  I should note, however, that I find the “religious” views of some scientists to be as annoying as the “you’re wrong, we’re right” claims made by some people of faith. All science is working models. The only “truth” in science is the value of the methods, but all the rest is useful models that allow us to explore how things work. They’re all waiting to be replaced with a better working model.

  If can’t accept that you might be wrong, you probably are.
  

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  Obviously, making a statement regarding harming the POTUS is a crime. Apparently, making a statement that it might be a nice thing to harm other public officials is also a crime (not stating that you will do it, but that you’ld like to.) However, Pat Robetson’s statement that ` president Hugo Chavez should be assassinated is, for some reason, A-OK. *sigh*
  

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  Things on the personal front are going well. Everything’s not “all better”, but a couple binges aside, last week ended up being pretty well spent, and I’ve got a pretty clear idea of some things I need to do in order to improve things. Of course, the challenge is, sticking to it and doing them.
  

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  That was going to be the end of this post, but someone in the office I’m currently working at just played a song that was a lounge version of NIN’s Closer. Turns out that the musician is Richard Cheese. He’s got three albums: “Lounge Against the Machine”, “Tuxicity”, “I’d Like a Virgin”, and “Aperitif For Destruction”.

  What’s he sound like? To steal a quote from his web site: “Just imagine Sinatra singing a Nirvana song, and you’ve got Dick.”
  

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  I’m still planning on switching over to LiveJournal, but I want to make it look a bit more customized first.

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