Back on Bureaucracy

So we have idiots running our government. Yes they deserve a raise and the people who work at McDonalds don’t. After all, all they do is make your food. Are you stupid? Oh wait, we already know you are… Who in their right mind treats someone badly who prepairs your food; someone incredibly stupid and naive.

Here is my call. Lets start electing smart people. What am I saying? So many people are stupid that there is no chance of them recognizing a smart person, let alone figuring out how to vote for them without invalidating their ballot in some god-forsaken inane way. It is becoming clear how and why this country will burn it’s future into the ground. Now I know how Nero felt. Give me a violin…. I’m going to have to watch it burn….

Here’s to Nero; raise a beer; play a mournful tune…

Who said life is fair.
- Uncouth

Marriage

I don’t want to get married, gays and lesbians do, too many other people continue to, who gives a rat’s ass.

The only people who seem to have a problem with gays and lesbians getting married is the religious coagulation. I really don’t care if they think it is wrong or right. If you don’t like it, don’t do it. If you don’t agree with it, then get the religious group you belong to and that agrees with you to not do it. Why do you have to force your beliefs on those around you. Are you really that different from the ‘religious fanatics’ around the world that you claim to abhor? They want you to do and believe what they think is right…

This is an excellent example of our faux tolerent nation and culture. I can not fathom how we can honesty debate an issue to constitutionally ban gay marriage along side a core statement of all men are created equal. Since when did we become a live and let live as long as you want to live like me nation? I don’t try to convict anyone of cannablism for eating human flesh (transubstantiation) so why can’t you leave gays to themselves? So you belive your bible declares it wrong? Don’t do it. If it is consentual and is not harmful than you have no right to interfere. And you don’t always get to decide what is harmful…

So go pray to your intolerant god, let the poor gay bastards voluntarily and knowing rot in hell and get your self-richous self back to church and try to convince yourself that your alcoholism, or your cheating on your wife, or your child neglect, or your drug habit, or your any-other-unhealthful-habit makes your ‘cooler’ in your god’s eyes.

It’s odd that, even in the bible, “god’s people” seem to be the most intolerant.

Who Said Life is Fair
-Uncouth

Fiction: Fact or Lie

So what is it about fiction that makes people so uncomfortable? I think a famous writer said it best… (sorry to slaughter…) but ‘me thinks the right wing bible beater doth protest too much.’

I went to see a recent movie release the other night only to be greeted by some religious fanatics protesting the film by standing outside the cinema with signs.

Protesting the Davinci Code

I understand standing up for something you believe in but what I have a hard time accepting is that these people actually know what they think. For starters, do they know that fiction is not ment to be taken as fact? It is a common practice for authors, IMHO, to use real events to lend a feeling of reality to works of fiction. This makes the ’suspended disbelief’ of the reader/viewer easier to practice. For a certain amount of entertainment, one can imagine something other than reality.

In any case, I keep hearing the argument that this story/movie/book is causing people to lose their faith. This too boggled my mind until just now. It finally hit me, as I was typing this, that people who have little ability to think for themselves could be easily mislead by someone who can create a crafty, some what believable story. It would not be right, moral, or ethical to take advantage of people in such a inferior capacity. They need to be protected. They need to be told what is right and what is wrong. They need to be shown how to live a better life. How to not be … How to watch a movie about cartoon characters, depicted as real people, with godlike powers, and then go to church the next day and pontificate about the evils of fictional stories that mislead people into beliving something so obviously untrue that they can’t realize it for themselves…

-Who Said Life is Fair
Uncouth