forty two: Unintentional hilarity

Friday, March 21

Unintentional hilarity

So PZ Myers of Pharyngula got rather fascistically kicked out of a screening of some new Jesus-tard movie at the MOA (Mall of America to you non-Minnesotans, and yeah I know I left MN almost three years ago; it still cracks me up that the advertising twits at the mall’s agency didn’t realize that that acronym they use in their ads is also the name of an enormous, extinct, flightless bird that was too fat and slow and, well, dim to realize that those little invading Maori critters thought that the moa made a great communal feast), while Richard freaking Dawkins who has to be about the most famous God-debunker on earth gets let in without a bleat.

I think that’s the funniest bit of irony I’ve seen in a long time.

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“At a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act” —George Orwell

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” —Upton Sinclair

“I mean, the human race, we are a tribe, let’s face it, and let’s stop all this religious bullshit. I think everybody, or at least a lot of my friends, are just so exhausted with this whole self-importance of religious people. Just drop it. We’re all fucking animals, so let’s just make some universal tribal beat. We’re pagan. Let’s just march.” — Björk

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in a final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed — those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending its money alone — it is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.” — Dwight Eisenhower, Speech (1953)

“If you assume that there’s no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there’s a chance you may contribute to making a better world. That’s your choice.” —Noam Chomsky

“Political conflicts are merely surfaced manifestations. If conflicts arise you may certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation. To concern yourself with surface political conflicts is to make the mistake of the bull in the ring, you are charging the cloth. That is what politics is for, to teach you the cloth. Just as the bullfighter teaches the bull, teaches him to follow, obey the cloth.” —William S. Burroughs

“The aide said that guys like me were ‘in what we call the reality-based community,’ which he defined as people who ‘believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.’ I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ‘That’s not the way the world really works anymore,’ he continued. ‘We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors… and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.’” —Ron Suskind

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forty two

Friday, March 21

Unintentional hilarity

Mad as hell!

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