The Eternal Gaijin

As the Chris-hannak-kwanza-mas Eid Season moves on I find myself paying little attention to the news, the world around me or anything else that doesn’t involve Resistance 2 on the old PS3 electronic crack dispenser. So after my absence while we moved and warred on the UK in order to get internet I just want to make a plug for my daily fix of Indexed with this cartoon: Just a quick thought.

...with a what the fuck is wrong with religious people at this time of year. First up with a little criticism, Cenk Uygur, a man with a name like a typing practice exercise, calls out the religious for their selectivity with their source material: Cenk Uygur: Not Another Word on Gay Marriage Until They Execute an Adulterer Two: Dispatches has a series of tales about how learning led to the breakup of good families and deaths and stuff. Dispatches from the Culture Wars: Misology and the Religious Right Three: Apparently there's some backlash against atheists speaking up. The Friendly Atheist has a rundown of the controversy. Who Took Down the FFRF Billboard in Rancho Cucamonga? | Friendly Atheist by Hemant Mehta Four: Amid all the things the US has trying to tear into it at the moment, this is the kind of shit they worry about: Obama's church attendance . Five: More Christmas love from the Westboro Baptist Church over at Dispatches again. Dispatches from the Cultu...

I'm the first to admit when I'm wrong. I usually try to wait until it's long past relevant. This whole election campaign I did not expect Obama to win. In a campaign that preached issues but gave Sarah "Are you fucking kidding me?" Palin goin' rogue, you betcha, it seemed hard to conceive that the personal attacks, the smears, the untruths, and race of both the candidates would slant the contest towards McCain. And I was wrong about that. When the crisis came along (that would be the economic crisis, not the prank phone calls to Andrew Sachs by emaciated Q-tip headed fuckhead Russel Brand) I did fully expect the States to retreat to old, white and grumpy as the safe choice over the younger, smarter and blacker Barak Obama. And I was wrong there. And I'm happy about that. If you're going to be wrong, hope to be wrong about the worst happening. And as Churchill said, you can always trust the Americans to do the right thing, after they've exhausted al...

Over at Nicest Girl, Izzibeth found the lovely, highbrow humour expressed in this graphic . I'm starting to be glad I missed out on the last 2 and a half weeks of this shit. She also has a good list of the racism chucked casually around here: Let's Just Make a List

It doesn't take much to cause the evangelicals to get their panties in a between the butt cheek Gordian knot. I suspect a last minute YouTube blitz should pretty much do it. And let's face it, it'll work. Christian right steps up attacks on Obama - Barack Obama News- msnbc.com

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The Imperial Palace moat for chrissakes. Have you seen the water there? WTF is in it? Naked guy in Japanese moat adventure | Metro.co.uk The guy BTW claimed to be British. Now does skinny dipping and running naked around a foreign city seriously sound like something that a British tourist would do?