So the city of Los Angeles has decided to flip the 1.4 million dollar bill for Michael Jackson's public memorial.

There seem to be a large number of people that want to defend this action, siting the millions that Jackson has donated to charity over the years, the rather important work he did in race relations back in the day (and yes, he actually ( Read more... )

People throw around the word faith a lot these days.

Man has a capacity for it, that is most definitely true.  We cannot expect people to stop believing in gods and monsters any more than we can stop people from murdering each other, or steeling, or being selfish.  But that does not mean that we should glorify it either.

Men have a capacity for ( Read more... )

So on the 40'th anniversary of the Stonewall riots a number of policemen entered a recently owned gay bar in Fort Worth Texas and arrested a bunch of people for public intoxication.  I've been reading a lot of the articles posted about this issue this morning as I was attempting to find something unbiased on the issue.

On it's face it looks pretty ( Read more... )

 I saw the new transformers movie in the state that anyone who's ever going to see it should: drunk and surrounded by boat loads of idiotic loud people that like to watch things blow up.

I'd say Meagan Fox was nice to look at, except that she talked like a little girl for the entire fucking movie.  Maybe I'm crazy, but I generally prefer for women ( Read more... )

I'm of the opinion that Pelosi deserves to go to prison for allowing torture legislation that was clearly in violation of the our own treaties and war trials, alongside Reid and the Republican leaders of both houses, and Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and the rest of them.  They've broken the law, and they've done it in a really terrible way.

In American ( Read more... )

 So these people are rather vile ( http://www.answersingenesis.org/ ).  They have set up billboards in Texas actually comparing Atheism to murder because... well because they are worthless people.  Though Wiley Drake (Alan Keyes' running mate) takes the cake for this weeks douchebag award, revelling in the cold blooded murder of Dr. George Tiller ( Read more... )

I saw a few speakers at the protest against the Supreme Courts ratification of Prop 8 yesterday that got me thinking ( Read more... )

 In light of the highly anticipated and expected, yet unfortunate events within the California Supreme Court today some might be expecting me to spout forth the standard fount of vitriol and say that the Church of Latter Day Saints is an evil institution comprised of ignorant fools and bigoted asshats that wish to force the rest of the country back ( Read more... )

 I would never claim to be an expert in the field (having taken only intro level courses in the subject) but so far I'm really not a fan of Cultural Anthropology in general.  My problems with this field of study come on a couple of levels, starting pretty prominantly with the fact that there doesn't appear to be a lot of SCIENCE in their science (I ( Read more... )

I find modern day American Catholics fascinating and strange ( Read more... )