I Must Take Issue With The Wikipedia Entry For 'Weird Al' Yankovic
Topic: music
"...To start: Your entry for "Weird Al" is laughably brief, and fails to account for the grand impact and scope of his career. How can you justify a "Weird Al" biography of only a paltry 850 words?

"Particularly galling to this author is the fact that Madonna and U2 were given articles two and three times the length of the Weird One's. Yes, those artists may have sold more records than "Weird Al," but surely the Wikipedia community is not one to confuse net profits with artistic merit. Nevertheless, while we are on the loathsome subject of money, I might point out that nowhere in the article is it mentioned that Yankovic has earned no less than four gold and four platinum records."

(read more here.)

The rest of your post is nothing but blasphemy. It angers the Lord greatly, and you will be punished.
Topic: gawd!
I don't know what's funnier... this site or the fact that this kid didn't get the joke!

Landover Baptist Community Forums: We Caught Ourselves A Wiccan!

QUOTE(Pastor Wilkins @ Aug 5 2004, 05:46 PM)

My boy and I caught ourselves a Wiccan and we have him down in the basement chained up to the furnace. I estimate his weight at roughly 300 lbs, he's a plunker, with pale skin, and he's down there just cryin' for his momma right now!

We're shouting scripture verses down the stairwell as I am typing this. Sister Vera, you and your husband outta come by the place later tonight and have a look at this. I just called the Sheriff, and he says he will be by in about three hours, so make haste! You've gotta see this one before the law takes him out!

Unlike you I will never doing dsomething as HOrrible as you.. I am WICCAN and I speak for all wiccans when I say your day will come. I do NOT kill cats or anything else... you should read up on white wiccan kitchen witches you'll see that I work in the kitchen making cakes and what not .. not killing things... our rule is "harm none do what ye will" and boy I wish I could curse you and what not cause it make a lot of people I know happy... (read more here.)

The new Oasis album.
Topic: music
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FROM: Bill Machon
DATE: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 00:03:34 -0500
TO: Lenny Flatley
SUBJECT: dude... new Oasis album...

http://tinyurl.com/3vcue
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A "God" Gene?
Topic: Evolution
"...Why is spirituality such a universal force? Why do people from all walks of life, regardless of their religious backgrounds, value spirituality as much as, or more than, pleasure, power and wealth?

"The answer is, at least in part, hard-wired into our genes. Spirituality is one of our basic human inheritances. It is, in short, an instinct -- rooted in a "God gene" folded deep in the intricate strands of our DNA.

"This may sound like a controversial assertion, but it reflects the startling advances of modern biology. The question of "Is there a God?" may be beyond science, but a deeper understanding of why we believe in God may be within our grasp."

(Charlotte Observer article here.)

Days Of Future... Future
Topic: Religious Nuts
Rev. Jack van Impe presents:


Overview of Major Future Events Chart

(a beautiful new prophecy chart depicting a concise overview of future history.)

Eminem: Mosh
Topic: music


Imagine it pouring, it's raining down on us
Mosh pits outside the oval office
Someone's tryina tell us something,
Maybe this is god just sayin' we're responsible
For this monster, this coward,
That we have empowered
This is Bin Laden, look at his head noddin'
How could we allow something like this
without pumping our fists
Now this is our final hour

...Let the president answer a higher anarchy
Strap him with an Ak-47, let him go, fight his own war
Let him impress daddy that way
No more blood for oil, we got our own battles to fight on our own soil
No more psychological warfare, to trick us to thinking that we ain't loyal
If we don't serve our own country, we're patronizing a hero
Look in his eyes its all lies
The stars and stripes, they've been swiped, washed out and wiped
And replaced with his own face, Mosh now or die
If I get sniped tonight you know why,
Cause I told you to fight.

(complete lyrics here. review / video here)

Tape From California
Topic: music
Tape From California
Artist: Phil Ochs | Genre: Folk | Time: 46:55

Critic's Review
3 / 5

William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide

On his fourth album, Pleasures of the Harbor, Phil Ochs broke from both his topical songwriting style and his acoustic folk music approach for an album of long, poetic songs set to elaborate, eclectic arrangements. For its follow-up, Tape From California, he combined his earlier and more recent styles, addressing such issues as war and union organizing along with more discursive efforts, and including a few more complicated arrangements mixed in with simple guitar accompaniments. There were some directly political efforts, but in the more poetic songs, Phil Ochs seemed to be painting a portrait of a desperate, debased society and his own sense of personal decline. For example, the marathon "When in Rome" conflated images from slavery, the Nuremberg trials, and ancient Rome to compile a compendium of evil and decadence through the centuries, clearly implying that the present day was another such era. Phil Ochs imbued his lyrics with his characteristic sense of irony, and the arrangements by producer Larry Marks, Bob Thompson, and Ian Freebairn-Smith complemented the songs wittily. But released in the middle of 1968, the most tumultuous year of the tumultuous '60s, Tape From California was often hard to listen to, because it was such a frighteningly accurate portrait of its times, eerily mirroring the point at which passionate argument over the direction of the country spilled over into violence and a widespread sense of absurdity.

(mp3.com more here.)

Don't Mourn, Organize
Topic: presidential election
"I don't really want to analyze the results of the lection. I don't think we'll ever know if Bush actually won or if the voting machines built by the company whose CEO promised to "deliver [Ohio's] electoral votes to the President" in the election were rigged. I don't like the strange doublethink involved in saying that the exit polls were completely off in showing a Kerry lead, but then citing the same exit polls in saying that "moral issues" brought out an army of freedom hating Christians who want big government to enforce their religious views on abortion and homosexuality...

"It's time too ask yourself why you wanted to see Kerry win. Was it an end in itself, or merely a means to an end? Did you want to see Kerry win just because you like him as a person, or because you want better health care, better jobs, or an end to the war in Iraq?

"If it's the former, I don't know what to tell you. If it's the latter, then you need to simply keep fighting..."

(DavidGrenier.com more here.)

Bush Unbound
Topic: presidential election
"The Democrats surprised themselves at their ability to raise tens of millions of dollars, inspire hundreds of thousands of activists, spawn extensive new organizations, attract icons of popular culture and present themselves as unified around a centrist position. Expectations were not dashed. Turnout vastly increased among African-Americans and Hispanics. More than 60 percent of the newly registered voters went for John Kerry. Those concerned about the economy voted overwhelmingly for him; so did those citing the war in Iraq as an issue. But the surge of the Democrats was more than matched.

"Using the White House as a machine of centripetal force, Rove spread fear and fused its elements. Fear of the besieging terrorist, appearing in Bush campaign TV ads as the shifty eyes of a swarthy man or a pack of wolves, was joined with fear of the besieging queer. Bush's announcement that he favored a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage was underscored by referendums against it in 11 states, including Ohio -- all of which won. (more here.)

Let Them Eat Myth...
Topic: presidential election
I'm wondering if denying poor people a mythology - even if we know it to be false - is such a great idea. It's honest, and has more integrity, but it's a bad strategy for eliciting their support. Poor people would rather vote for the myth that they'll be taken care of - even if, in reality, it means being further fleeced by the wealthy, and sending their children off to die in war. (more: see Douglas Rushkoff)