LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- Conservative Christian groups accuse the makers of a video starring SpongeBob SquarePants, Barney and a host of other cartoon characters of promoting homosexuality to children.
Oh, my goodness, where to begin? What can you say about a mindset -- and I use the word "mind" loosely -- that even thinks of crap like this? Didn't they get laughed at enough when Jerry Falwell "outed" one of the Teletubbies?
THESE ARE KIDS' CARTOON CHARACTERS, FER-CRYIN'-OUT-LOUD!!!!! What's next? Don't Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd hang out together an awful lot? (Ooohh, there's one for this crowd -- bestiality!) How about Bugs & Daffy Duck? Or Wiley Coyote and the Road Runner? Don't you think that if Wiley was REALLY serious about it, he'd have caught that darn bird by now? What's going on behind the scenes, huh? Why are they so intent on making us believe that WC is chasing RR when he's obviously not? Hmmm?
Don't EVEN bring up Batman and Robin; I mean, jeesh, can you get any more obvious? And what about the Fantastic Four? Aren't those weirdos just a little TOO chummy?
Ya know, I'm beginning to wonder about Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson . . .
Friday, January 21, 2005
Friday, January 07, 2005
Mama Nature
Story in yesterday's paper: several 'primitive' tribes on an island off India survived the tsumani, despite the fact that they would normally have been fishing at that time of day.
Why?
Because they fled the shores for higher ground, well before the waves arrived.
Said one scientist: "They have a sixth sense we don't possess."
He may have the science degree, but I beg to differ. I'll bet you that we do have it.
We've just allowed it to wither on the vine.
Consider how modern homo sapiens lives. We work & live under artificial light whether the sun is up or not. We breathe filtered air, we drink bottled water. We keep our vehicle windows rolled up whether we're in exhaust-producing traffic or not, and whether the temperature is 10 below, 110 in the shade, or a pleasant 75. We bundle up if the temperature goes down just a few degrees, and turn on the a/c if it gets above 70. We head straight for the antibacterial soap if we get a little dirt on our hands.
We are terrified of sunlight -- skin cancer! We're terrified of rain -- my hair! We have to get our weather reports from TV, radio, or the computer; even if we do go outside and "brave the elements," we have no idea what any of it means. I am the only person I know who sees a difference in the sunlight at the spring & fall changes of season. We have divorced ourselves from the mother of us all -- Mother Nature, Mother Earth.
Am I saying that we should live like the stone-age tribes? Heck, no. For one thing, most of us wouldn't survive. For another, I have no desire to live in a world without antibiotics.
But have we lost something in the bargain?
You betcha.
Why?
Because they fled the shores for higher ground, well before the waves arrived.
Said one scientist: "They have a sixth sense we don't possess."
He may have the science degree, but I beg to differ. I'll bet you that we do have it.
We've just allowed it to wither on the vine.
Consider how modern homo sapiens lives. We work & live under artificial light whether the sun is up or not. We breathe filtered air, we drink bottled water. We keep our vehicle windows rolled up whether we're in exhaust-producing traffic or not, and whether the temperature is 10 below, 110 in the shade, or a pleasant 75. We bundle up if the temperature goes down just a few degrees, and turn on the a/c if it gets above 70. We head straight for the antibacterial soap if we get a little dirt on our hands.
We are terrified of sunlight -- skin cancer! We're terrified of rain -- my hair! We have to get our weather reports from TV, radio, or the computer; even if we do go outside and "brave the elements," we have no idea what any of it means. I am the only person I know who sees a difference in the sunlight at the spring & fall changes of season. We have divorced ourselves from the mother of us all -- Mother Nature, Mother Earth.
Am I saying that we should live like the stone-age tribes? Heck, no. For one thing, most of us wouldn't survive. For another, I have no desire to live in a world without antibiotics.
But have we lost something in the bargain?
You betcha.
Monday, January 03, 2005
Stupid Catholic Tricks, January '05 Edition
At St. John the Baptist School in Costa Mesa, California, some parents are up in arms over the enrollment of two kindergarten pupils. They are screaming to high heavens (you should excuse the expression) that these menaces to Holy Mother Church must be removed. Or else they will remove their own children. And/or appeal to the Vatican, to boot.
And what danger do these small children present? Do they carry the Ebola virus? Have they been diagnosed, at this tender age, as psychotic killers? Are they, perhaps, evangelical Satanists?
Worse, my friends, far worse.
Their parents are a gay male couple.
OK, class, let's review. If adults do something of which you do not approve, the Christian response is to deny their children an education.
????????????????????????????????
And if we can't do that -- hey, let's deny our OWN children an education!!!
Pitchforks & torches, anyone?
The pastor, God love him, refused comment except to say that the important thing here is the children's education.
And we wonder why anti-Catholicism is the last "acceptable" prejudice.
And what danger do these small children present? Do they carry the Ebola virus? Have they been diagnosed, at this tender age, as psychotic killers? Are they, perhaps, evangelical Satanists?
Worse, my friends, far worse.
Their parents are a gay male couple.
OK, class, let's review. If adults do something of which you do not approve, the Christian response is to deny their children an education.
????????????????????????????????
And if we can't do that -- hey, let's deny our OWN children an education!!!
Pitchforks & torches, anyone?
The pastor, God love him, refused comment except to say that the important thing here is the children's education.
And we wonder why anti-Catholicism is the last "acceptable" prejudice.
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