We Are All Going to Die
Once again, a heavy work load (combined with a request to create an extra Aid or Invade) has kept me from blogging. Let's recap all of the fun that would've been posted if I weren't intent on working myself to death:
By now you've probably heard about the anti-choice blogger who mistook an Onion piece from 1999 titled "I am totally psyched for this abortion!" for an actual editorial. I really wish I'd gotten a chance to post about this fiasco before the blogger removed the comments (which, thanks to someone's dogged persistence in preserving the stupidity of the twenty-first century for future generations to gawk at, have been preserved here) and trackback links, as these were pure comedy gold: the trackback section was full of headlines like "Idiot mistakes 'The Onion' article for real news". By the end of the week, Pete-The-Christian-Blogger had Schumined his way into internet stardom culminating with an interview at Salon.com (Warning: You most view a shitty little commercial in order to read the entire interview).
The icing on the cake is that this is not the first time this sort of thing has happened. Take a look at this piece from WorldNetDaily posted back in 2001. According to the article, "High Priest Egan of The First Church of Satan in Salem, Mass., celebrates Harry's contribution, saying, 'Harry is an absolute godsend ... we've had more applicants than we can handle lately.'" And the source for that shocking chunk of info? This piece from the Onion.
In other news: There's no need to be bummed over the recent death of Syd Barrett (why did every blogger have to use "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" as a headline? ) because, apparently, we'll all be joining him in that Lake O' Fire pretty soon as, once again, it's the Apocalypse and we are all going to die.
This time out, the End O' The World is being heralded by increased violence in the Middle East. If there are any Israelis reading this I'd just like to say that while you had every right to go into Gaza after your captured soldiers, bombing the living shit outta Lebanon was a pretty fuckin' stupid move: not only because the faction of Hezbollah that fired rockets into Haifa are not affiliated with the Lebanese government, but also because now I have to hear some crazy Fundie monkey chatter about how your little bombing run marks the return of Jeebuz. I don't mean to come off as self-centered, but we all need to focus on me and my needs for a change.
Shit Luther, some of these ass-potatoes are even looking forward to the "End Times".