Morgan, a caustically engaging fellow, isn’t crazy. He uses the urine jar because there’s only one bathroom in his dingy New York domicile, and his mom is in there a lot. (Morgan’s life kind of sucks.)
Morgan, a caustically engaging fellow, isn’t crazy. He uses the urine jar because there’s only one bathroom in his dingy New York domicile, and his mom is in there a lot. (Morgan’s life kind of sucks.)
Now, normally, I think the onion has turned into a repetative, one-gag site (or is that redundant?), but it has now provided me with my new philosophy for life
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This event, recently held in South Dakota (courtesy of the Abstinence Clearinghouse), can pretty much be summed up as Ritualistic Surrender of My Sexuality to Daddy. At the Purity Ball, girls don prom dresses to be escorted by their fathers to a Dominionist’s wet dream of a formal dance where dad and daughter pose for prom-style pictures under a heart-shaped arch of balloons.
ok, I was one of those people “who pooh-pooh the notion that abortion restrictions and abstinence movements are, at their cores, solely about controlling women’s sexuality”
While I’m not saying that all anti-abortion/abstinence people are so motivated, I can’t deny that these purity balls’ are acts of control over women (as mentioned, there are no such customs for boys) and their sexuality.
While I can applaud the attempts to guide a daughter’s sexual behavior, I can’t help but see this as a ‘women are still only women, not men’ kind of thing.
Face it, girls, daddy owns your cunt and then hubby does.
(ok, that first bit is really disturbing)
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BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro (AP) – A Serbian prisoner using needle, thread and safety pins stitched his lips and tongue together to avoid a scheduled court hearing in his robbery case, the Blic newspaper reported Saturday.
(I don’t even know how to tag this for technorati)
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Nope, you HAVE to watch the commercials
basically, the system looks for flags that are generally used to increase interactivity with TV (i.e. ‘more information’, ‘extra footage’, etc):
Philips suggests adding flags to commercial breaks to stop a viewer from changing channels until the adverts are over. The flags could also be recognised by digital video recorders, which would then disable the fast forward control while the ads are playing.
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Relativising The DaVinci Code
Basically, Doug (who, btw, wrote the fantastic Creature Tech I reviewed a while back) is saying that you can really get away with offending Christians but not so much with, say, Jews or Blacks. Offend Jews, you are an anti-semite or, at the very least, culturally insensitive. Offend Christians, and you are standing up for free speech.
Obviously it isn’t quite that simple, but he does have a point which I’ve agreed with for a while.
However
He chooses some really poor examples to illustrate this point.
He uses the holocaust, slavery, and child molesting.
Unfortunately for his very legitamate arguement, these don’t actually work here.
Sorry, Doug, but while I know you believe in the life of Jesus Christ as fact, your faith doesn’t cut it against the historical facts of the holocaust and slavery (and the current facts of child molesting). Regardless of how much evidence there may be for the existence of Jesus as portrayed in the Bible, it falls short of academic standards, and certainly pales when compared to events in the 19th and 20th century.
You would have been better off finding parallels in these cultures and the stories (factual or otherwise) that create their collective identities. For example, a movie where Moses was just trying to scam the Jews and accidently stumbled into Israel. Thats much closer to the DaVinci Code, I think.
Oh, here’s one, what if someone made a movie about how the Jews gathered together to slaughter Jesus for their own self-interest and to take away the salvation of his followers?
oh
sorry
already done.
that little jibe aside, I think my point still stands.
Soon I’ll be able to control all the HQ defenses with a thought!
WORLD DOMINATION TIME!!!
Abstinence curricula must have a clear definition of sexual abstinence which must be consistent with the following: “Abstinence means voluntarily choosing not to engage in sexual activity until marriage. Sexual activity refers to any type of genital contact or sexual stimulation between two persons including, but not limited to, sexual intercourse.”
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Throughout the entire curriculum, the term “marriage” must be defined as “only a legal union between one man and one woman as a husband and wife, and the word ’spouse’ refers only to a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife.” (Consistent with Federal law)”
It seems to me that, really, the only way to make sure no sexual stimulation takes place between gays is to keep an eye on them. And the best way to do that, it seems, is to, y’know, gather them into relocation living facilities. Anyhow, they’d be happier there amoung their own kind, and safer too! Yes, it’ll be for their own good. Maybe we could give these places some sort of happy-fun name…
hm.
Yes, we can call them camps!
