Gosh. CNN used be to pretty good. So was TIME magazine. What the fuck happened? Below is a shocking headline from CNN!
Yeah and TIME magazine totally failed with the article below.
Yes, if you read the article is all about how Ida is not our earliest ancestor because in the grand scope of things our ancestry goes far further back. The article is mainly about how scientists didn't need to see Ida to have proof of evolution.
But here's the problem. First of all, this article was on CNN which you click on and sends you to TIME magazine's website. But just think how the average person (who just can't accept evolution) will react to this. They'll look at the headline from TIME and say to themselves, "Oh, so apparently scientists don't believe this thing is real." Like a game of telephone it'll translate to, "Scientists don't even believe in evolution. I guess they have accepted that the book of Genesis is the true account."
Originally the title to the article was "Scientists Roll Their Eyes at Ida" but I guess somebody felt that was inappropriate.
It's clear that no matter how much proof there is, they'll never accept it. Especially when they believe the proof is just made-up by those evil and deceptive scientists!!! Religious people once said "there aren't any transitional fossils!" And now that there are hundreds they say, "Fossils don't prove anything!" Way to move the goal posts!
Hehe. I wonder how many people goggle pissed off with the image above. Darwin's birthday logo was subtle. This is just slap in the face to creationists and I love it!
Yep, it was inevitable. I fell in love with some vamps. Anne Rice's books were good but never got me enthralled. My fault, not hers. Stephanie Meyer... ugh, sappy, predictable, boring. Her fault, not mine. Then came along Charlaine Harris.
She's a part-time author, part-time minister. She writes stories about sex, drugs, and lots of blood. Every single one of her books in the Sookie Stackhouse series contains the word "dead."
It all started over at Mandar's cousins house. Aurora had gone on for a while about being enthralled by the Sookie Stackhouse novels. She was psyched to be getting the upcoming ninth in the series. After I finished reading Contact by Carl Sagan I thought, sure why not, I'll give it a try. I bought the first book in the Sookie Stackhouse series called "Dead Until Dark." From page one, I was interested. By page 292, I was hooked. Even better, HBO picked up the book and converted them to a weekly one-hour television program which they dubbed True Blood.
The story takes place in the rural Louisiana town of Bon Temps. The books are told from the prospective of 25 year old Sookie Stackhouse. Just months have the underground vampire community decided to "come out of the coffin" thanks to the creation of a sythetic blood drink called TruBlood Sookie is exited to meet a real live vampire when he walks into Merlotte's Bar (where she works of course). Mr. Bill Compton is a gentleman (and has a handsome 1800's look about him). From there Sookie finds herself getting slightly attracted to her dead new friend. The once quiet town of Bon Temps is shocked when several murders occur just months having the vampire's appeared. Sookie is torn between her new beau and the normal life she once had.
Above is the uber amazing Eric Northman (and his second in command Pam), the 1100 year old vampire who runs the vampire bar called Fangtasia. Oh, did I mention that they refer to the people who have sex with vampires as fang-bangers?
The series True Blood is a lot different from the book. Each season of the show represents one book. However, since the book is less than 300 pages long and the show has twelve one-hour episodes, there's time to fill. What I love is how every single scene from the book is in the show. And what's great is they have room to add more. Much much much more!
This show is not for the faint at heart. There is a lot of fucking. And I mean a lot of fucking! There's drug use. Gore. Violence. Blood. Lots of blood. Let's put it this way. Twilight is like huggies pull-ups and True Blood is like Victoria Secret lace lingerie. Don't watch unless you can handle big girl panties!
One of the things I love about the show is it's location. Deep south Lousianna. Just check out the show's opening credits. I love the song they choose and the imagery is perfect.
So it's my new addiciton. Good thing for me, I just finished reading book one and I've got eight more to go (and there currenlty is no end in visible sight for the series). I sure hope HBO keeps this series going for a nice long time!
So I went looking for a nice polo shirt today and I had to poop. So I went into the bathroom and found some of the best graffiti I have ever seen. Enjoy it below. Oh and try spot the spelling error.
Last night at Aurora's house we were watching some great Bollywood videos. "Nimbooda" below was one of them. We jokingly said that this was the Indians do during the 5-minute breaks at work. I might have hit a low-brow moment when at very end of video people are cheering, I said, "Quick! Everybody get their Dell headsets back on!"
I just finished reading Carl Sagan's 1985 novel, Contact. I saw the movie when I was a teenager and loved it but the book was quite a bit better in some places and not as great in other. It was slow in places. Nevertheless, I still think that Jodie Foster played Ellie Arroway perfectly, maybe even better than Carl Sagan wrote her, lol.
The book was strange in a way because it was published in 1985 and it ends in the year 2000. For example, the Soviet Union still exits in the book. I'm not in anyway saying that was a failure in any sense (he couldn't have known) but it was strange and kinda funny at times. Not to mention, the President of America in the book was a Madam President which by 2008 we still have not seen. I bet if Sagan was alive today he'd be surprised that we had a black president before a female. Overall, the ending was considerably better. More detail made it deeper. There was also a very thought provoking thing that had to do with pi at the end.
But while reading there was a very funny part where Ellie was talking to a old man who lived in a retirement home that orbited earth. I would like to share it:
"You see, the religious people -most of them- really think this planet is an experiment. That's what their beliefs come down to. Some god or other is always fixing and poking, messing around with tradesman's wives, giving tablets on mountains, commanding you to mutilate your children, telling people what words they can say and what words they can't say, making people feel guilty about enjoying themselves, and like that. Why can't the gods leave well enough alone? All this intervention speaks of incompetence. If God didn't want Lot's wife to look back, why didn't he make her obedient, so she'd do what her husband told her? Or if he hadn't made Lot such a shithead, maybe she would've listened to him more. If God is omnipotent and omniscient, why didn't he start the universe out in the first place so it would come out the way he wants? Why's he constantly repairing and complaining? No, there's one thing the Bible makes clear: the biblical God is a sloppy manufacturer. He's not good at design, he's not good at execution. He'd be out of business if there was any competition."
I guess I never mentioned why I called this bunnies on the highway. There was a long exposition early in the book about rabbits in New Mexico that see car lights. It was interesting.
A band I love called Cobra Starship is about to come out with a new CD late this summer (rumored to be coming out August 1st!). I'm not sure if it's their first single or not, but they added a new track from their upcoming CD on their MySpace which you can listen to below. It's called "Pete Wentz Is The Only Reason We're Famous" but worry not, it has nothing to do with Pete Wentz or Fall Out Boy.
I saw Cobra in concert last fall and I hope they go on tour again. They're on tour now but they're only opening for Fall Out Boy (huet!). Last fall lead singer Gabe Saporta had an issue with his throat and couldn't sing that well. I'm willing to bet they are a lot better when their lead singer has a voice, lol. Oh and yes, I love the new song. I've listened to it about a million times already.
By posting this video before he does... that is if he's seen it lol. It's pretty cute. It's nice to know that so many people are so adamantly against that stupid ass gay storm video from NOM.
Smoke 'em if you've gott'em! Lol. But seriously. I love this picture of Brian and his bong from last night's episode of Family Guy (which can be seen in full and legally on Hulu.com).
I'm friends with this douchebag on Facebook who I don't even know, really. He comes into my work a lot and buys snackers. He had a class once with me. He's a big Christian but boy does he love pussy. He loves to talk about pussy. He loves to eat pussy. He loves to talk about eating pussy. Besides Jesus and pussy, the only other thing he talks about is sports. Bleh. Three things I hate.
So he posted this thing below.
And so here's my question. What the fuck is a 30 hour fast going to prove? What is the fucking point? Especially since he's probably going to eat the entire fridge when it's over.
It might be to show him how people in other starving countries have to live. Except they don't eat like a pig before it starts and then get to go out to Denny's and pig out again after just 30 hours. This is one of those things in American religion that is just so fucking stupid. Things like this make this kid feel holier than thou and I'm willing to bet that he won't be 100% pure in his fasting.
What I hate more about this kid is how much he complains because his parents can only afford to send him to OSU and not a good school. He complains and says things like, "Uh, my parents are patheitic. They wasted all their money and now they can't even send me to a worthy school and so now I'm in class with poor people who are practically homeless."
I don't know how I keep myself from committing a felony with a chicken bone. God damn, just imagine how much good he could do with the energy he put into that thirty hours. He could volunteer at a homeless shelter (we've got on in our town). He could pick up trash outside. He could do so much but instead he just doesn't eat for a little bit. Jesus fucking Christ! I'm so done!
After the release of the new theatrical trailer for Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince, I decided to have some fun with captions with it as well.See below.
So me, Mandar, and Aurora have been all up in a Tarkan mood lately (he's coming out with a new CD this year!! AHH!). So while panning the internet for good photos, I got some great ones. Of them, several were in dire need of a good caption. See below.
I am a black rainbow. I am an ape of God. I've got a face that made for doing violence upon. I'm a teen distortion. I survived abortion. I'm a rebel from the waist down.
"People are always going on about, how did September 11th change you? Well here's how it changed me; lets all stop being so damned respectful." ~ Richard Dawkins
"We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes." ~ Gene Roddenberry
"Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave." ~ Prophet Muhammad
