If you're going to fly the United States flag, fly it right! I've seen flags left out at night in the dark. I've seen dirty flags flying in rain. I've seen frayed and dirty flags flying during snow storms. This is particularly sad to see at a public institution where the administration should know better (and care more). Apparently no one at these public institutions is taking responsibility for the proper care and use of the United States flag. Commercial organizations, too, would obviously benefit from education on proper care and use of the flag. Why is this so important? The flag of the United States of America is the United States of America. To treat it improperly is to treat the entire country improperly. The U.S. flag isn't a logo like the Nike slave labor "swoosh." When I see the Nike "swoosh," I think of Nike's slave laborers, but I don't really care about the "swoosh" logo itself. The "swoosh" is merely a simple design that someone thought would go really well with a slave labor driven athletic shoe company. If I fold, spindle or mutilate the Nike "swoosh," I've done nothing to Nike, because I bought the shoes on which the "swoosh" rests. The U.S. flag is no logo. It, like our country, represents freedom and was paid for with the lives of masses of Americans who wanted exactly what you want: the freedom to pursue happiness. Specific information on the care and use of the U.S. flag can be found at The American Legion.
Bill Gates/Microsoft
In effect, Microsoft is the only company producing operating systems for the IBM PC and compatibles. Microsoft has a cable news channel, MSNBC. Bill/Microsoft is buying up the world's intellectual property and works of art. Microsoft bought WebTV. Microsoft is giving away Internet Explorer (this activity is usually called dumping) to steal market share from Netscape (one term that appropriately characterizes this behavior is unethical - I'm guessing Bill never took a course in ethics, and, of all people, Bill needs to take that course and study the topic thoroughly - another activity I'm guessing Bill hasn't done much). Microsoft bought c|net. Microsoft produces excessively buggy and shoddy software for a company of its size. Microsoft is going to own part of a network of communications satellites - imagine how it'll leverage that to switch you over to the Microsoft Network. Be afraid. Be very afraid. I find myself wondering how many members of the Department of Justice work for Microsoft, and how many blood-sucking lawyers Microsoft employs. Perhaps someday, though, Bill will be merely the head of one of the five baby Microsofts, possibly Pacific Microsoft. Until this happens, you can relieve some of your aggressive urges by warping the greedy, weasel-like bastard's face. I did and I feel a bit better. Still, we need to keep an eye on Microsoft. As with children, we need to take steps to hold corporations incapable of controlling their respective ids (see Freud) in check.
Another of countless examples of governmental stupidity and irrationality, this bill, submitted by Rep. Chris Smith, who is, of course, a Republican, represents a complete lack of understanding of, well, everything. Firstly, if junk e-mail were something one smoked that has a really big lobby in Washington, like, say, cigarettes, Smith would have submitted a bill to tax it rather than to eliminate it. Secondly, Smith does not understand that the real problem with junk e-mail is that often one cannot reply to junk e-mail or remove oneself from the sender's mailing list. A bill that changed this feature of junk e-mail is all that is necessary. Thirdly: Why not ban junk snail-mail?? Junk snail-mail kills trees and grows landfills, and isn't nearly as easy to dispose of! Get a grip, Rep. Smith. You're falling into the fascist abyss.
Doctors speak in hushed tones when discussing abortion, fearing "Death by Christian" should their entirely legal activities be detected. I'd like to support the doctors who are not cowed by the xtians, and their patients now, with this:
I have an idea for abortion protesters (the ones who stand outside
abortion clinics and doctors' houses harassing people):
The boldest, most poignant, statement you could possibly make against abortion
would be to literally abort yourselves en masse in an open field. This
would attract news media from all over the world, even Kentucky. Bombings
and shootings won't get you too much sympathy, but, if you were to abort
yourselves as I am suggesting, the pope would probably send you flowers
pulled from that really tall hat of his.
A Colorado legislator whose name I forget made an excellent point regarding abortion in general, stating that both women and doctors can be ethical, that it is not necessary to legislate this issue. She's absolutely correct. It is unfortunate that the people who need to understand this cannot.
Abortion is not currently murder, but let's suppose that it is. If
you claim that abortion is murder (the intentional and unlawful killing
of one person by another), I have an argument that demonstrates this view
is self-contradictory if you also use contraception (criticisms of this
argument are welcome) :
Murder is the intentional killing of one person by another. (Note that
unlawful has been left out.)
Abortion is murder.
You exist.
You have parents.
Contraception prevents birth.
Abortion prevents birth.
You were born.
Your parents (probably) did not use contraception when you were conceived.
If your parents had used contraception (that worked), you would not exist.
If you do not exist because your parents used contraception, then your
parents intentionally killed you.
If you do not exist because your parents used contraception, then your
parents murdered you.
The use of contraception, then, is murder.
This argument needs some work, but a small amount of fiddling with
the idea of non-linear time will allow you to understand what it means.
This argument, if correct, demonstrates that we are human beings who exist
with all the rights of our citizenship from the moment our parents decide
to have sex, whether the purpose of the sex is to produce offspring or
to provide pleasure.
If abortion is murder, then contraception is murder, and you're a practicing
Catholic.
I don't support late-term abortions unless they are absolutely necessary, and I've heard recently that they never are. The most annoying thing about the abortion issue is the way "anti-abortion groups" choose to protest abortion: by harassing women and doctors outside abortion clinics (and occasionally killing them or attempting to blow them up). If you want to protest abortion, simply write your congresspuke as though you were a civilized individual. You're certainly not going to change anything by shouting Christian-style expletives at women who need abortions and the doctors who make their livings doing such things.
Stick your plug in your own outlet for a change... (you know who
you are)
When was the last time a Hindu told you not to eat a cow? You bible thumping,
burger eating, grease licking, self-righteous hypocrite. For hundreds of
years, you've been spreading disease and war around the globe, inflicting
your ways on unsuspecting, healthy, happy people. It's about time you gave
it a rest.
Ebonics?! Hickish? Appalachian? Redneckics? Newjerseyan? Valleygirlionics? Is there an educated person who is not familiar with the term dialect, or that other term slang? Apparently so!
A cartoon in Newsweek: The legendary Beavis and Butthead are walking into a courtroom with a document that says, "Moron + Phonics = Moronics."
Suppose for a moment that there is a God who created the entire universe and made up a bunch of little rules for us to live by. Any entity so powerful and far removed from this realm is certainly not going to give a rat's ass about the outcome of the upcoming Detroit Muggers versus Los Angeles Looters game the little twits it created are so concerned about, yet some of the little twits pray to God before the game begins and give all the credit to God if they win. It's funny how they don't blame God when they lose; losing is always caused by their shortcomings or the other team's exceptional performance (due to God's assistance?). Did God pick the other team to win? If God actually supported sporting events, we'd witness centers suddenly becoming two feet shorter, receivers losing fingers, quarterbacks getting excruciating migraines, anorexic running backs...
Saint Peter's going to give me great seats for that one!
(First it was prevent, now it's stifle. What's next? Suffocate!)
C.U.M. Network
A humorous look at a bunch of useless, blind ninnies.
Sex, Censorship,
and the Internet
Petition to Help Senator
Leahy Fight The CDA!
Stop
the "Communications Decency" Act!
Centerpiece
What is this term: vaGodin?
Is it a great French painter?
Is it a Japanese misspelling of an ordinary English word?
Is General Motors running out of good model names?
Is it the Norse god of malicious impropriety?
No. It's not any of those things. It's simply God's name in vain.
Saint Peter's going to move me back a row for that one!
