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The unbearable meaninglessness of being Judeo-Christian

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In Worldnet Daily’s ‘lets rape unfaithful women’ OpEd is the following sentence: “There may be a genuine moral argument against rape to be made outside of the Judeo-Christian ethic, but I have yet to hear it.” – how very deaf you must be. I’ve noticed increasing reference to the so called ‘Judeo-Christian’ tradition. This lumping of Judaism with Christianity together with the claims of Millennium Christian radicals is an insult that could possibly lead to injury, since historical precedent suggests that jews will eventually get the blame. Given that there are three religious sects that worship the same deity and find common ancestry in Abraham: Judaism, Islam and Christianity, reference to the Judeo-Islamo-Christian, or, more elegantly, ‘Abrahamic’, tradition makes some sense. The permutation: ‘Judeo-Christian tradition’ stems, obviously, from the fact that Christianity supersizes the Torah into its own edition, whereas Islam rewrites it. But what of the other alternatives: Given…

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Worldnet Daily suggests that women are often asking for it when they get raped – Verizon, why are you advertising on this article

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“if a woman consents to extramarital sex, she is committing a moral offense which is equal to that committed by the man who engages in consensual sex with her, or by the man who, in the absence of such consent, rapes her. Christianity knows no hierarchy of sins. Since only the woman who is not entertaining the possibility of sex with a man and is subsequently raped can truly be considered a wholly innocent victim under this ethic” I’ll paraphrase this nonsense because the writing is so bad: ‘A woman who considers, for a second, the possibility of sex outside of marriage is no better than a man who actually rapes her.’ This is what some people who call themselves Christians actually believe. As an aside, the guy who wrote the article describes himself as a Christian Libertarian (i.e. someone who both rejects and blindly worships authority). Here are some…

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A really good politician

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Wow – Michael Ignatieff, who is a genuinely intelligent person, unlike the vast majority of politicians, is going to run for the Canadian premiership. I’ve seen him stark bollock naked, because we used the same gym in London – I guess I may have seen the Emperor with no clothes. TheStar.com – No more Mr. Nice Guy

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Shopping blog roundup.

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A good round up of all the shopping blogs is in today’s Baltimore Sun: “Crib Candy: Overflowing with eye-catching items for the home, this site features tons of adventurous products for adventurous people.” Perhaps blogs to do with shopping needs a word? Blog Shops – Blops? Got time and money to spend? Click here – baltimoresun.com

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T-Mobile suck – give em some ragerank

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T-mobile suck Here’s an idea – if everyone added the tag: badrank ragerank and a company name to weblog posts about sucky customer service, you could aggregate complaints in one place and also Google bomb them. Update: ragerank is a better tag name. I just spent 20 minutes on the phone to T-mobile to try and get a refund on the fees they charged me to reinstall their service because of an error at their end. Unfortunately it was impossible to talk to a human being that wasn’t reading from a script and then the line cut out – because its a T-mobile one and therefore sucks. Ha! I figured that its easier to give them some bad Google juice instead. BADRANK RAGERANK T-MOBILE Anyway, did I mention that T-Mobile suck and just fined me for their own incompetence. Poor Service – T-Mobile Sucks TMobile sucks T-Mobile bad service T-mobile…

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Christian review of chicken little

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‘Crude or profane language Little and his dad both use “Oh snap!” as a euphemism. Dad interjects “Jeez.” Name-calling includes “loser.’… and Little’s dad keeps calling him a daft wee feathered c*nt – I don’t think so. Chicken Little

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Why its so hard to say that Judith Miller was fired.

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In England, the more senior you are the less likely you are to ever get expicitly fired – you are leaving to spend more time with your family, taking early retirement, or chose to blow your own brains out with a revolver. Whatever arrangement results in the least fuss – because the English establishment abhores a fuss. Being handed a loaded gun to kill yourself with is more than courtesy. What the Brits really abhore, is comeback, damages – and ultimately, of course, money loss. Courtesy evolves within a culture because it is advantageous for both the donor and recipient and resignation or suicide imply that a decision was voluntary and so there is no comeback. In the US, where establishment and money are more closely linked, by virtue of being a newer country, things are more straightforward. If you don’t have money or you don’t have a track record…

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Penn Jillette – there is no God

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“No God means the possibility of less suffering in the future.” “Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-o and all the other things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will ever have.” I believe – that atheists like Jillette tend to be nicer people because they don’t have to pretend to be nicer. NPR : There is No God

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What we owe to our grandparents

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Oooh – I treated myself to the DVD of Scorcese’s Bob Dylan documentary, No Direction Home, having missed it on the telly. Bob Dylan was the first person I ever saw in concert, I was 14 and someone gave me two tickets for free as I lined up outside Earls Court with my pocket money. Dylan was my current age then, and already had more than a lifetime’s worth of achievement behind him. It strikes me that Dylan’s generation, my parents’, were the children of people who had been through one of the most bestial periods in human history. Those who had experienced war, my grandparents’ generation, were ready for change and it manifested itself through their children who were brought up differently. These people created the cultural renaissance that was the latter half of the 50’s and early 60’s. Is a shame that not everyone believes that war is…

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RSS – waiting for the great leap forward

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Some people don’t seem to like Google Base – I like it a lot and I’m sure that its a product that will gradually evolve into something truly revolutionary. So far nobody has been able to touch Ebay, but one gets the impression that since they are an effective monopoly Ebay have become very conservative with their product, not wanting to risk innovation which could mess things up. This leaves others who innovate with an opportunity, and Google will innovate here. The people that pay Ebay – the sellers, would switch if they could, but Ebay has the buyers. Only someone like Google could offer a rival marketplace of buyers. As an aside – since the single item Google Base upload allows you to define your own metadata via custom name-value pairs, does that mean that with bulk uploading Google will intelligently parse RSS modules in their own namespaces? If…

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