Still on a Break

Yeah, I know it's a lot longer than I intended it to be, but I am dealing with a close family member who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia, and it's been a battle learning how to deal with it, get him to doctor appointment, taking him for walks to work off excess energy (he can't go alone because "they" will follow him), etc.

It takes a lot of time to do all this stuff and this why I've not been posting lately. I'll be making a comeback soon, though. Stay tuned and thanks for reading.

--The F Man

Taking a Break

I'm okay, I'm just taking a little break from things. I think the Santorum Surge has left me feeling a little wrung out...

Now I Understand...

... why celebrities eschew faux awards on the Internets. It's all a fraud, a beauty contest, and no one knows who is doing the actual "voting" -- or if there really is actual "voting"...

Otherwise how do you explain the absence of me, "your humble narrator"*, from the American Humanist Association list of the Top Ten Sexiest Male Celebrity Atheists...

Brad Pitt? Okay. Antonio Banderas? Okay. Johnny Depp? Well, yeah, okay...

Hmmm, on further review, I am kind of vaguely aware that I am now officially in my dotage, and I am at the age where I do have to make a decision which can have long term -- indeed, lifelong (such as it is) -- consequences: Am I a geezer, a codger, or a coot?

Jeez, it's so hard to make a choice!

But I digress... Or I think I do... Or something...

Oh, and to ensure that I and the American Humanist Association are not seen as "sexist", here is a list of the Top Ten Female Celebrity Atheists

[* Literary and/or film buffs will recognize this as one of the catch-phrases of Alex of Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange. Read the book if you haven't seen the film; see the film if you haven't read the book.]

The Vagina Ideologues

Gotta see it Daily Show video:

The Vagina Ideologues

I'm Proud to Live in Washington State

Today the state of Washington made history by becoming only the 7th state to legalize gay marriage.

Of course the religious righties lost no time in filing a referendum to put it on the ballot in November. They've got until June to gather 120,000 signatures for that to happen.

But they are on the wrong side of history. The demographics are against them. Well over half of persons under 30 support equal rights for everyone. So it is just a matter of time until this prejudice is relegated to the dustbin of history.

Monday Music Break

Here's the terrifically great British comedy troupe, Monty Python's Flying Circus, with Every Sperm is Sacred:

Once again, it just seems right... It can't be far down the road when even masturbation will be made severely illegal -- with some severe punishments -- if the fundos ever manage to weasel their way into some real power positions. Can't waste all those sticky little protohumans, can we? Although I don't know what they will want to do about all those pesky "nocturnal emissions" that normal adolescents seem to be blessed with to an extraordinary degree.

Damn evolution, anyway!

The Santorum Surge

Jeez, I can't even type that with a straight face.

Now Little Ricky, according to the MSM/SCLM* is experiencing a "surge"... in the polls. Even though it's only a ploy to keep up the appearance of a two-person race. In the ethos of the media, "if it bleeds, it leads". It's always been the job of the media to say "let's you and him fight".

Nevertheless, you know I've been rootin' for Newton, but if by some fluke (i.e., being the non-Romney) he actually gets the nomination, Santorum would be a candidate even easier to beat in November.

Go Ricky go!

[*MSM/SCLM = Mainstream Media/So-Called Liberal Media]

I Am the New Number Two

You might recall The Prisoner, a classic television show from the late 60s.

Each week Number 6 (Patrick McGoohan) had to deal with a new authoritarian figure, always named the Number 2, last week's Number 2 having met some horrible end at the end of the previous episode.

So in the frantic scramble by the Rethugs to dethrone Number 1 (Romney) there have been a whole series of Number 2 people. Santorum is only the latest, and is being played up by the suckass media as the new Great White Hope, even though his four victories yesterday were, at the bottom, meaningless since they garnered him exactly zero delegates.

When The Prisoner was airing for the first time, I always thought that the worst job in the whole world was to be Number 2 . He died almost every week and then there was a different guy who claimed, "I am the new Number 2". Who always informed McGoohan that he was Number 6, and then usually died by the end of the episode.

So buh-bye Ricky. You're as doomed as the rest of them.

The Horror, The Horror!

The US 9th Circuit has overturned Prop 8, California's Mormon-driven ban on gay marriage, calling it "unconstitutional". Damn activists in robes, that's what they are. How dare they say that gay people are just as good as "regular" people?

Well, as Kinky Friedman famously said, "I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us."

BTW, here's a chart showing the likely outcomes of this decision:

Monday Music Break

In honor of my team winning the Super Bowl yesterday, here's Billy Joel with New York State of Mind:

Jeez, look how young he looks!

Will Rick Scott Pee in a Cup?

The Daily Show's Aasif Mandvi, while reporting on the State of Florida's requirement that welfare applicants have to take a pee test (which they pay for) and have to pass in order to get welfare assistance, asked Florida governor (Rethug) to pee in a cup:

Scott really isn't really happy about it, as you can tell in this video. Too bad -- fuck him. If poor people can take one before they government money, he ought to as well. I personally don't believe in drug testing without a lot of grounded suspicion that the individual is doing drugs (a little thing called Fourth Amendment is supposed to prevent it, but this is the New Amerika and the fascists can get away with, it seems, pretty much anything).

Still I'd like to see them try to institute drug testing laws that includes all politicians, the CEOs and boards of directors for all corporations that receive federal money. You'd see that plan in the dustbin of history in five minutes...