Another "WTF?!" Brought to you by the AFA

Those wacky folks at the AFA are selling "Christmas Crosses" for front yard display this holiday season.

Some thoughts:

1. Um, Christmas is about the birth of Christ, not his death. That's Easter.

2. If someone in my neighborhood (or any neighborhood for that matter) put such a display up, I'd think they were part of the Klan. I mean look at it! It looks like a burning cross! Yikes!

Library Marketing

In these wacky consumerist and message-saturated times libraries, too, must compete for attention.

Wyoming Libraries has a pretty slick ad campaign which has some witty bumpersticker slogans but also includes a modified "mudflap" girl. I don't know how I feel about this. On the one hand, it is an image that has been modified and does not necessarily carry the misogynist overtones of the original image.

On the other hand, I immediately recoil at the sight of the image, even though it's modified, because the original is such a powerful one of the objectified female form.

Thoughts?

El Bible-a-rino

Since all you HN readers are big Bible buffs (heh!) I know you'll find this BBC article on homosexuality in the Bible interesting! Case in point: Leviticus (everyone's favorite insomnia cure) says homosexuality is ooooh, bad; however, remember David and his boy, Jonathan, and their passionate "friendship"...? David tells Jon, "your love for me was wonderful, surpassing the love of women," and he ended up becoming King of Israel!

I know, I know...it just goes to show yet again, that that wacky book is chock-full-o-contradictions. You're better off trying to figure out a Lynch movie.

A hip hop dippity do!

I'm a little delirious this morning. Not sure why.

Putting the coffee down. Backing slowly away...

In other news: some jackass put a bag bomb in front of a women's clinic here in town yesterday. I'll never understand those kind of people: "Oh, I'm 'pro-life' but I'll happily kill doctors, nurses, and patients to save a blob of tissue..." Oh, puh-leese! Logic just doesn't get any more twisted than that! [Insert giant eye-roll here.]

Anyhoo, NPR has been running stories and interviews all week on the abortion debate because of the recent Supreme Court ruling that partial-birth abortions are not allowed. So the topic is kinda on my mind. I feel that I'm like most Americans when it comes to this issue: I'd rather that no woman had to have an abortion. Instead, I wish that attitudes and access to birth control and contraceptives were more accepted and widespread. American attitudes toward sex are so bizarre and unhealthy and guilt-ridden, I don't know how any babies get made in the first place!

Speaking of Americans' unhealthy and guilt-ridden attitudes toward sex: New Hampshire's sure to get backlash for legalizing civil unions in that state. NPR has an interactive map of what states allow same-sex marriage and/or civil unions and which ones don't. I find it odd that the map's blue states (the ones with so-called 'Defense of Marriage' Acts in place) don't also outlaw divorce. I mean, come on! Allowing divorce isn't really defending marriage, now is it? Someting like fifty percent of married couples divorce! It seems marriage is really just a sham in most instances, a multi-billion dollar industry designed to pressure people into getting married in a lavish ceremony, not really an institution of love. Why gays wanna get in on that crazy institution is baffling (although there are some nice perks)*.

Thus concludes today's political confusions and resulting rants. Thank you, Gentle Readers, for your love and devotion.

*Disclaimer: I have often considered gay marriage (yes, this robot is a 'mo) but my state doesn't allow it. Besides, all one really needs is a good lawyer and some handy documents...

The joys of getting up 30 minutes late

• No coffee.
• No breakfast.
• No time to remove eye crusties until zooming down the highway.
• Did I mention no coffee?

I feel awful

To kill time at lunch I went to MallWart today and I ate McD's. Everyone in the Wart had the same gloomy look: they were crestfallen and dragged their feet. Everyone in McD's was the same, but fatter than me. (A small victory?)

I don't know why I did it. Of course I regret it. Some days the effort to do anything else is just too much. Perhaps I should have just skipped lunch and taken a nap instead.