Goodbye, Pluto

Why? Why mess with a good thing?

This is just silly. I mean, weren't they just debating on whether or not the icy UB313 was going to be called a planet?

And now they've demoted the already much maligned Pluto from a planet, to a "dwarf planet" and we're down to only 8 planets in the solar system.

I say that's poop. I say we all band together and start a revolution!

Reinstate Pluto Now!

Exploits of Nothing

Usually, the stuff over at www.ytmnd.com is easily categorized as one of the following: trite, silly, crude, homophobic, agist, sexist, pornographic, or racist. Every now and then, you'll get amuzing or downright hilarious. Even more rare is the transcendental. But I stumbled across an entry that was downright inspired.

"You're The Man Now Dog" is not exactly the sort of website one expects to find a page made by someone with religious convictions, but there you have it. Sort of like finding a nice clock in a scrap heap or forged metal spike in the middle of a field of heather.

Anyway, just drawing your attention to it.

Just Stop Giving Him a Soapbox.

I've bashed Jack Thompson, Esq. on previous posts, but honestly, I'm just sick of him. I mean... you go to the circus sideshow and you see BoBo the Monkeyboy. At first, you're thinking "Wooo... that's just freaky!" But then, you see BoBo again a half hour later, and you think "Huh. Well." And then, you see him again an hour after that and you just feel sorry for him. Then, two hours later and another trip past his show and you get angry at the circus for putting him on display.

And that's where I am now. This little clip of The Loop just fuels my ire. The man is clearly not playing with full deck.

Mark Friedler responds to a question by saying that his 4 and 6 year old sons punch and kick each other and they've never played a video game.

Adam Sessler says that parents are responsible for monitoring what their kids play.

Jack Thompson says that's NOT the issue.

And THAT is what's wrong with America today, folks. Parents ARE responsible for what their kids do. Parents ARE responsible for monitoring what games their kids play and shows they watch on TV.

Until everyone in the U.S. accepts that as FACT, the government will never stop trying censor, monitor, restrict, and outlaw games, shows, and books that it finds questionable. That sure doesn't sound a Free Republic to me. Sounds more like Fascism.