Green Oasis

My teabag advised me today that “Anything too stupid to be said is sung.” (Voltaire)

It’s funny because just yesterday I heard I Can Tell (You Wanna Fuck) for the first time. I burst out laughing. It’s a good thing I wasn’t drinking anything at the time. It still makes me laugh every time I think of someone saying this stuff with a straight face.

Let’s not forget My Humps by the Black Eyed Peas.

Voltaire was a smart man.

A U.S. airstrike on Sunday killed 47 civilians, including 39 women and children. Did you hear about it? Hmm.

Imagine if this had happened in the United States. Would you have heard about it then?

(via reddit)

Mormonism has a long history of slandering its opponents. Witness the straw man Korihor, or those who allegedly stole the translation of the Book of Lehi. It is so easy to blame any opposition to the Mormon church on Satan’s machinations. It keeps the faithful in line.

So I shouldn’t be surprised when good Brother Lawrence asserts that the arguments for recognizing same-sex marriage are the same arguments used by Satan in the war in heaven. Aside from being hyperbolic, his comparison is inapt.

As the story goes (as Brother Lawrence notes himself) Satan’s plan was to destroy humanity’s agency, its free will, so that everyone could get to heaven. It is presumed that he would do this by making everyone obey God’s commandments so that no one could sin. If no one sinned, then everyone went to heaven.

Lo and behold! We have Mormons championing an effort to make sure that no one can sin with the blessing of the state. They want to make it as difficult as possible for homosexual people to sin. They want to facilitate, urge, cajole, even force people to marry only heterosexually. Is this not a perfect analog to Satan’s plan according to the Mormon myth?

We do not believe it just to mingle religious influence with civil government, whereby one religious society is fostered and another proscribed in its spiritual privileges, and the individual rights of its members, as citizens, denied. (D&C 134:9)

This LDS Satanic effort has irony written all over it… in big capital letters.

A librarian was barred from a speech by Senator McCain because she carried a sign that said “McCain = Bush”. I don’t know why Republicans would be offended by that.

(via Mrs. Sturgeon Has Her Say)

Wall-E

In the first Pixar film to choke me up with emotion, Wall-E is more lovable than R2-D2. I couldn’t help but connect with him and his bumbling, sincere naïveté.

The Dharma Bums

With breathless, stream-of-consciousness enthusiasm that isn’t in style anymore, Keroac writes a love poem to people, mountains, and Bodhisattvas. It makes me want to hop a freight train and leave the world behind (for just a while).