As many of you surmised, we had major site problems here. We were unable to post, our spam blocking was disabled and we were unable to delete comments, which led to us turning off comments altogether lest we get swamped.
We’re in the process of cleaning up now, which required some herculean efforts by the good folks over at Hosting Matters. Bear with us all while we straighten this out.
Let’s see if this works.
How rich are you? Go to the Global Rich List and find out.
(Via Kristine Kathryn Rusch.)
Spotted this weekend: a “Conquer Cancer” specialty license plate on an SUV.
Gosh, what do you think pollution does to your lungs, stupid?
Saith Steve Gilliard at Gott mit uns about fundamentalist church leaders: “These folks are SO overplaying their hand. They totally misread how Americans see church…. Shelton, Dobson and the rest of these folks are a minority, about 15 percent of the country. The only reason to listen to them is that they drive voters to the polls. But because most Republicans are too lazy to keep their own field organizations, they are totally dependent on the church driven GOTV. So we get high drama wingnutism on display.
This may work, but my feeling is that this is gonna blow up on them like the Scopes Monkey trial. While they won the case, fundamentalism was discredited before the nation.”
Don’t I wish it was discredited. The sad fact is that it’s not yet, there are still lots of folks for whom faith has taken over their lives.
(Via Steve Gilliard’s News Blog.)
TV Squad: “Review tonight’s Smallville and win $100
Smallville returns tonight after a decent hiatus and we want you to review it for us. We’ll handle the cool screen captures but you provide the words. The best review will win $100 via PayPal. It should be an exciting return to form tonight with Lex being split in two by a kryptonite explosion. And we all can guess at how evil his evil side will be. Make the review concise but add thoughtful commentary too. Tell us how this impacts the series as a whole and how it ranks compared to past episodes. Length should be 250-800 words and the deadline for reviews will be this Friday (tax day) at noon.
Surely one of you can use the bucks.
I think there’s a market for an electric blanket that, instead of keeping your side of the bed warm, shocks the person on the other side of the bed when they try to steal your half of the blanket.
Anybody wants to build it, be my guest.
From a website called MovieGuide: “Movieguide is a ministry dedicated to redeeming the values of the mass media according to biblical principles, by influencing entertainment industry executives and helping families make wise media choices.”
Content:
Pervasive pagan moral worldview with murder, revenge, corruption, and prostitution, and strong Romantic philosophy that pits the individual against an evil society, as well as anti-Christian content includes two corrupt or evil priests, both of whom are murdered (one inside a confessional), and light moral element man risks life to stop a pedophile and end governmental corruption; 33 obscenities, but no ‘f’ words, and eight strong profanities; gory, bloody violence includes many people being fatally shot with some body parts flying off, man dragged from car, crooked priest shot in confessional, people hit in head with sledgehammers and hatchets, men impaled, decapitations with a head that is bandied like a ball, cannibal keeps decapitated heads on his wall, dog eats at dead person, corpses are cut into pieces so they can be dumped, murderer is electrocuted by the state, gun backfires and becomes lodged in man’s head, pedophile’s genitalia is pulled off, suicide, man almost hanged, woman lashed, grenade explodes, people punched, man jumps through windshield, people smashed into wall, and men’s heads are held in toilet bowls; fornication depicted, pedophile kidnaps a girl but is prevented from harming her, many characters are prostitutes, and reference to priests using hookers; upper and rear female nudity; heavy alcohol use; prescription drug abuse and smoking; and, heavy governmental corruption, heavy corruption in the Catholic Church, cannibalism, pedophilia, revenge, and kidnapping.Summary:
SIN CITY is a blisteringly violent movie with an anti-social, anti-Christian perspective. It weaves together three stories of sadistic men pursuing their own warped brands of justice in a depraved city. Become educated about what’s in this movie and don’t support it.Review:
SIN CITY is a different breed of comic book movie. There are no flashy costumes, there’s no Batmobile, and there is no hero. Instead of triumph, there is an endless barrage of evil acts and anti-biblical hedonism.
But hey, how can you not like a web site that also has articles like Neo-Nazis Kill Terri Schiavo? I fully expect an article about how this movie is responsible for the death of the Pope…
(Via Oliver Willis.)