Presidential Candidates Confess to Oprah
Animated cartoon by Robert Smigel for Saturday Night Live’s TV Funhouse. Cheap shots against everybody – good times. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ushi8-dRlvg[/youtube]
Indecent Bible?
A recent column in the Chinese University’s Student Press magazine (Hong Kong) was deemed “indecent” by the Obscene Article Tribunal because it asked readers about whether they had ever fantasized about incest or bestiality. A storm of debate followed – on freedom of speech, the right to open sexual discussion, and the obligations and limits of social morality. Seemingly in response (although I’m not sure how they would know that), someone launched an anonymous web site (truthbible.net ) that said…
Synchronicity Humor
Speaking of Jung (see last post), have you ever paid attention to those odd groups of coincidences, the ones that cluster together in uncanny ways? If you were prone to magical thinking, you might think that the universe was trying to send you a message. Given quantum realities, maybe that’s not so far-fetched after all. I stumbled upon this humorous piece just after going through my job search file. Doubly funny because I am almost tempted… The Ultimate Rejection Letter…
Birds Love the Voice of Charlotte Church
I am too disheartened by recent events to be able to respond to the news in any kind of responsible way today. I’m taking a break. And I have been rewarded. I have just witnessed the Snow White/Sleeping Beauty effect. Keep reading. One of the nicer aspects about not having found a full-time job yet is that I have a couple of days off during the week. I was feeling rather down and, having completed most of my mundane chores,…
Vonnegut – so he goes
So it goes, and he is gone. Good-bye, dear Kurt Vonnegut. I (for one) will miss you. “When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in a bad condition in that particular moment, but that same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is ‘So it goes.’†– ,…
Once again, Terry Jones
Wouldn’t you love to see him perform this? Can’t you hear the words as you read? Call that humiliation? No hoods. No electric shocks. No beatings. These Iranians clearly are a very uncivilised bunch. Terry Jones, Saturday March 31, 2007, The Guardian And what’s all this about allowing the captives to write letters home saying they are all right? It’s time the Iranians fell into line with the rest of the civilised world: they should allow their captives the privacy…