- An introduction to extended copy
- My state is chock full of religious nuts
- The great scifi "F" shows crime
- And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest, buddy!
First of all, folks need to use the extended copy box here in the diary/journal/log/whinging section. That's this one. The one I'm writing in at the moment. Not the first box for text you see which is, oddly enough, labeled 'intro copy' and which displays on the main diary page itself. If you put the whole bunch of your text in the intro section it lengthens the main page and kind of ruins its purpose... that being to give a quick way to view an introduction to your piece.
Allright, I've got that little peeve off my chest.
I just caught this Tennesseean article from infidels.org's newswire which, unfortunately for me given my locale, includes all too many stories from The Tennesseean.
The current display shows the Code of Hammurabi from Babylon, Solon's Reforms from ancient Greece and the Magna Carta from England, along with the Ten Commandments.
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''I am a Christian, but this needs to be burnt,'' she said. ''We need the Ten Commandments and this needs to be burnt.''
The Rev. Clarence Jared, chairman of the Tennessee Chapter for the Advancement of the Ten Commandments and an independent Baptist preacher from Cookeville, echoed a couple of speakers when he told the commissioners that several of the civilizations represented by documents in the display don't even exist anymore.
''You reckon it might be because they forgot their creator?'' he asked.
I reckon this dimwitted troglodyte doesn't know which damned civilization he's living in. Our religion is judeo-christian but our civilization is anglo-roman-hellenic. The former is greatly influenced by one Hammurabi, the latter by Solon and the Magna Carta.
Seems to me dude did a pretty good job although its breadth could have been greater. Perhaps the 12 Tablets of Rome and Luther's theses? But unfortunately a bunch of spiritual thugs who have never bothered to study history have decided the constitution of freakin Athens has nothing to do with us because it doesn't jive with their idiotic preconceptions.
Somewhere, someday someone's gonna have to stand up and tell these folks - and by that I mean all these wingnut ideolouges both temporal and spiritual - and everyone else without a decent shred of clue that these ideas are simply wrong and that by supporting them they are lieing... you know, bearing false witness.
What other kind of witness is there when you have your eyes screwed shut, your fingers crammed into your ears and are screaming "LALALALALALA!" at the top of your lungs when the event happened?
Oh well, enough of that. Jojo and I watched a bunch of Farscape eps we'd taped during Scifi Channel's bizzare midday marathon. It had been a while since I'd watched it and it struck me how much I've missed good scifi TV since the death of the three "f shows"; Farscape, Futurama and Firefly.
The thing I dug most about Farscape was how well the actors and muppets interacted. It made for some great aliens (and, admittedly, some pretty bad ones) that weren't just the forehead prosthesis of the week Trek types. CGI aliens can be pretty good, but the interaction with live-action inevetibly sucks wet farts from dead pigeons.
That show deserved a final season, it was criminal how Scifi ripped us off. Not quite as heinous as Fox's rape of Firefly, but damned close.
Speaking of which, I picked up the last three, unaired episodes of Firefly off of P2P a couple of weeks ago. Probably the strongest ep of the 13 made - "Trash" - was never shown. I think the show was too amoral to be let live on Rupert TV. A shame because it was really good science fiction... and in being that went over the heads of the vast majority of Fox's viewership.
I also saw that there's going to be a Red Dwarf movie. I am desperately in need of some of the all too rare good scifi comedy since Futurama was shitcanned by the same dolts at Fox mentioned above.
The only other thing I've watched on TV this week was a Southpark rerun about Phillip and Terrance (with the absolutely classic "Canadian Shakespear" bit in it... buddy). It got this stupid tune stuck in my head and forced me to look up the lyrics. In the hopes of excorsising it from my mind I'll leave you with it:
Beef and lamb, chicken and ham
step to your left and clap your hands
Gosh we love our chicken and ham
Don't let it go to waste that chicken and ham!
Repeat quickly ad infinitum...