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Oct 27, 2006 3:36pm: More horribly flawed logic fun!

1. Ray Bradbury writes against book and bible burning in Fahrenheit 451. (Its been years since I read it, but isn't the book of Genesis the one thing Guy Montag remembered from any of the books he'd dealt with?)
2. Alton Verm (Google is your friend) does not like Fahrenheit 451 at all . (He admits he hasn't read it, and seems to have only read the words- like someone pointed out on some blog out there)
Therefore: Alton Verm likes burning bibles!

Oct 14, 2006 10:00pm: MY BRAIN HURTS

Okay, let me follow things stated and demonstrated here to their logical conclusions:

1. Lee Goldberg asserts that fanfiction is shit. Lee Goldberg writes tie-in books about Diagnosis Murder and Monk. Therefore, the logical conclusion would be that Lee Goldberg writes shit.

2. Naomi Novik is kicking Lee Goldberg's ass. Lee Goldberg has bad writing cooties. Therefore, Naomi Novik probably needs to sanitize her shoes afterwards to avoid catching the cooties.

3. The sheer pretentiousness of some of the people here, coupled with the fact that they know absolutely jack shit about how copyright works, makes my brain hurt. (No logic games here, just an editorial statement.)

Oct 1, 2006 11:24am: Gah. I'm back. Stuff on my plate:
1. There's too much stuff I haven't read. I'm in the middle of a collection of creepy suspense stories, and I've got Roger Zelazny's first Amber series to read. Not to mention, I found I inadvertently found that a science fiction collection I'd bought a while back had "The Stars My Destination" in it, saving me the seven dollars that it would have cost me to buy it new. It also has a couple of other novels in it, but I forget what...

2. I got overwhelmed with the plotting to this thing I was working on. Yesterday, I finally said "screw this", dumped all the outlining plotting I did before and started from scratch. I'm farther in my outlining now than I ever was after six months of it.

Quote of the moment:
"Mr. Bons screamed, "I see no one. I see nothing. I want to go back." Then he cried to the driver, "Save me! Let me stop in your chariot. I have honored you. I have quoted you. I have bound you in vellum. Take me back to my world."
The driver replied, "I am the means and not the end. I am the food and not the life. Stand by yourself, as that boy has stood. I cannot save you. For poetry is a spirit; and they that would worship it must worship in spirit and truth.""--E.M.Forster, "The Celestial Omnibus"

James Dobson: Dog Abuser: Sep 20, 2005 11:44pm 2 reviews parenting
http://www.geocities.com/cddugan/DobsonsDog.html; From the page: "The "rebellion" which Dobson blames on the child's original sinfulness is actually just the flip side of Dobson's own authoritarian, Parent-Wins-Child-Loses, control-obsessed approach to parenting. Totalitarian oppressive behavior by dictators breeds insurgency - coercive bullying behavior by parents breeds "rebellion." Dobson CREATES this sort of behavior in children, and then uses it as proof that still more authoritarian bullying is the only solution to the "rebellion" by "strong-willed" children which his tyranny provoked in the first place."

Delocator: Sep 9, 2005 10:33pm 87 reviews coffee
http://www.delocator.net/; Got nothing against Starbucks, but it's always good to support local businesses...besides, you can find places here that you didn't even know existed!

bovil: Repost this.: Sep 9, 2005 10:16pm 1 review christianity
http://www.livejournal.com/users/bovil/80778.html; From the page: "Last I checked, this isn't what Christianity is about. I thought Christianity wasn't about exploiting human suffering.

Show me that it's not. Take a stand.

Repost this. Don't just link it, copy it and repost it. Ask your friends to repost this. Find out where they really stand when they don't."

Sep 9, 2005 10:06pm: Passing this on here, since I don't have a livejournal...

(Source: this livejournal)

The day after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, Repent America issued a press release. In it, they implied that Hurricane Katrina was a judgement from God on New Orleans, particularly on Southern Decadence, New Orleans' annual queer end-of-summer bash.

Eh, they're just some tiny fringe group, right?

Well, Agape Press, the American Family Association's news service (and nobody can claim that the AFA isn't right in the heart of Christian activism) posted an article misleadingly titled New Orleans Residents: God's Mercy Evident in Katrina's Wake. They don't just imply.

The pastor explains that for years he has warned people that unless Christians in New Orleans took a strong stand against such things as local abortion clinics, the yearly Mardi Gras celebrations, and the annual event known as "Southern Decadence" -- an annual six-day "gay pride" event scheduled to be hosted by the city this week -- God's judgment would be felt.

"New Orleans now is abortion free. New Orleans now is Mardi Gras free. New Orleans now is free of Southern Decadence and the sodomites, the witchcraft workers, false religion -- it's free of all of those things now," Shanks says. "God simply, I believe, in His mercy purged all of that stuff out of there -- and now we're going to start over again."

Last I checked, this isn't what Christianity is about. I thought Christianity wasn't about exploiting human suffering.

Show me that it's not. Take a stand.

Repost this. Don't just link it, copy it and repost it. Ask your friends to repost this. Find out where they really stand when they don't.

(Links and HTML Source Here)

Sep 2, 2005 10:30pm: My favorite bit from the page below:
"Democrat:You have to believe that Hillary Clinton is normal and really a very nice person.
Republican:You have to believe that Ann Coulter is normal and really a very nice person."

Personally, they both make me want to puke. :D

How to be a good Democrat/Republican: Sep 2, 2005 10:26pm 267 reviews politics
http://www.aboyandhiscomputer.com/Dem_Rep_compare.html; Making fun of stereotypes and the you're-an-idiot-if-you-don't-agree-with-me crowd is always fun. It's also kind of refreshing to see something make fun of both major U.S. parties. It could be a bit funnier, though.