Are You "Saved?"
I saw the movie "Saved" tonight at the Secular Students' movie night. The story centers around a group of seniors at a Christian high school, and cleverly depicts the flaws of blind faith. The inflexible Biblical positions on homosexuality and pre-marital sex and subsequent pregnancy are portrayed in an eye-opening yet realistic perspective. I'm sure Christians are going to hate this movie, just like conservatives hated Fahrenheit 9/11. However, those who actually give it a chance might begin to see life from a different perspective. My favorite quote of the movie epitomizes the hypocrisy of fundamentalism: "If God wants us all to be the same, then why did he make us so different?" If for no other reason, please watch this movie so you can see Macauly Caulkin (the Home Alone kid) in a wheelchair and Mandy Moore acting like a prissy bitch. Oh wait, I guess you can see the latter situation every day on MTV...
Do you guys like how Wal-Mart tries to get all political by refusing to sell certain items that "would not appeal to a majority of our customers?" The latest item is George Carlin's new book, called When Will Jesus Bring the Porkchops?, whose cover makes fun of the Last Supper. Previously it was John Daly's book that contained a "pin the head on the Supreme Court justices" game that depicted naked old-people bodies and the heads of the justices, which you were supposed to match with the bodies. Before that it was Sheryl Crow CDs, after she was quoted as saying that "kids can go buy bullets at Wal-Mart." I don't honestly think that the average Wal-Mart customer is going to be buying books. Or pop music. Nope, I think the average Wal-Mart customer is lost somewhere between the tire aisle and the hunting cross bows. Or maybe the Confederate Flag Patriotism discount rack. Or something.
Isn't it cool that "hobbit-sized humans" have been discovered in Indonesia? Well, fossils of hobbit-sized humans, that is. 13,000 years ago, three-foot-tall Homo floresiensis lived beside modern humans on the island. I love discoveries like this -- this just shows how much we still have to learn about our history as a species and about how un-special we really are in the scheme of life. I really identify with Steven Jay Gould (the late Harvard paleontologist and evolutionary biologist)'s comment regarding an evolutionary "rewind," so to speak. If you could wind back the clock of life to the beginning of the Earth and then allow evolution to begin anew, do you think that the same life forms (including humans) we know today would evolve a second time, or would the Earth be populated by totally different life forms? I am confident that we are a product of many fortuitous and random events compiled throughout evolutionary time, and that the chances of us being recapitulated exactly as we are in an evolutionary "do over" are zilch. Wow, that kind of reasoning really makes one feel special.
It's nice to know that the U.S. Army is taking such good care of Iraq. A news report from the ancient ruins of Babylon, less than a hundred miles outside of Baghdad, identifies new English-language graffiti that has appeared alongside the ancient cuneiform tablets. In a place steeped in the history of Hammurabi, Alexander the Great, and Nebuchadnezzar, the likes of "Sgt. Woods" and "O-Dog" now stand beside some of the most legendary figures of all time. Thanks, America! Hail, O-Dog!
And for those of you dutiful readers who are still with me at the bottom of this uncharacteristically long entry, I now reward you with the George W. Bush campaign quote of the day. "Tactics and strategy must be flexible." Who is this quote supposed to be attacking?!?
Music of the Moment: "Save Me" by Remy Zero
Do you guys like how Wal-Mart tries to get all political by refusing to sell certain items that "would not appeal to a majority of our customers?" The latest item is George Carlin's new book, called When Will Jesus Bring the Porkchops?, whose cover makes fun of the Last Supper. Previously it was John Daly's book that contained a "pin the head on the Supreme Court justices" game that depicted naked old-people bodies and the heads of the justices, which you were supposed to match with the bodies. Before that it was Sheryl Crow CDs, after she was quoted as saying that "kids can go buy bullets at Wal-Mart." I don't honestly think that the average Wal-Mart customer is going to be buying books. Or pop music. Nope, I think the average Wal-Mart customer is lost somewhere between the tire aisle and the hunting cross bows. Or maybe the Confederate Flag Patriotism discount rack. Or something.
Isn't it cool that "hobbit-sized humans" have been discovered in Indonesia? Well, fossils of hobbit-sized humans, that is. 13,000 years ago, three-foot-tall Homo floresiensis lived beside modern humans on the island. I love discoveries like this -- this just shows how much we still have to learn about our history as a species and about how un-special we really are in the scheme of life. I really identify with Steven Jay Gould (the late Harvard paleontologist and evolutionary biologist)'s comment regarding an evolutionary "rewind," so to speak. If you could wind back the clock of life to the beginning of the Earth and then allow evolution to begin anew, do you think that the same life forms (including humans) we know today would evolve a second time, or would the Earth be populated by totally different life forms? I am confident that we are a product of many fortuitous and random events compiled throughout evolutionary time, and that the chances of us being recapitulated exactly as we are in an evolutionary "do over" are zilch. Wow, that kind of reasoning really makes one feel special.
It's nice to know that the U.S. Army is taking such good care of Iraq. A news report from the ancient ruins of Babylon, less than a hundred miles outside of Baghdad, identifies new English-language graffiti that has appeared alongside the ancient cuneiform tablets. In a place steeped in the history of Hammurabi, Alexander the Great, and Nebuchadnezzar, the likes of "Sgt. Woods" and "O-Dog" now stand beside some of the most legendary figures of all time. Thanks, America! Hail, O-Dog!
And for those of you dutiful readers who are still with me at the bottom of this uncharacteristically long entry, I now reward you with the George W. Bush campaign quote of the day. "Tactics and strategy must be flexible." Who is this quote supposed to be attacking?!?
Music of the Moment: "Save Me" by Remy Zero
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