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Anti-Social Networking… and an apology of sorts

So… due to personal issues, I de-activated my Facebook account last week. The crisis resolved itself (sort of… it’s a long story), but I’ve actually been enjoying my time away from Facebook, as it tends to be a distraction.

I learned a valuable lesson when I de-activated my account: Social Networking sites don’t necessarily strengthen already [...]

It’s like the Hatcoys and the McFields up in here!

When I saved the screen capture for yesterday’s “Drug Debt Sparks Fued” post, I ignored my usual practice of numbering the images I upload and saved the jpeg as “fued.jpg”, never thinking that I’d be uploading “fued02.jpg” or “fued03.jpg”. KRIS-TV’s Mitch Bryan proves me wrong:

Local journalism at its finest

Yahoo’s new homepage features links to local news stories, most of which I never bother to check out. I couldn’t pass pass up this story, though: Drug Debt Sparks Fued. In case they’ve cleaned up the headline, here’s a screen capture for you (and note the spelling in the URL of the article):

Not to [...]

Hotlink at your own peril

A few days ago, I noticed that three images from this site were being hotlinked at other websites.

For those of you who don’t know what hotlinking is and are too lazy to click the link I provided, hotlinking is when someone uses an image from your website without bothering to save the image on their [...]

She raps, too… swoon

A sort of follow-up to this post, the deliciously stalk-worthy ZOMGItsCriss takes on the issue of Christian Side Hugs and delivers a rap of her own.

To hell with the First Amendment, I just want to cuddle

2009 has been pretty good to Marc Randazza of The Legal Satyricon. He made Glenn Beck look like an even bigger dipshit than he already is, and he sent Levi Johnson – Sarah Palin’s almost son-in-law – a letter offering $100,000 to do some gay porn.

Randazza’s acheivements have not gone unnoticed. He received a nice [...]

It doesn’t have to be Christian to suck (but it helps)

This video has been making the rounds as of late: a group of Youth Pastors at some Jesus Camp-type gathering warning about the evils of “front hugging”. Seriously.

It would be too easy to take the low road and say “how typically Christian”; sure, the lyrics are fucked-up in a way that only Christians could [...]

More bad album art and some shameless shilling

It was suggested to me that I follow up the Cold Hard Facts of Life with a tribute to The Louvin Brothers’ Tragic Songs of Life album, but if we’re gonna discuss The Louvin Brothers and rad album covers, the discussion ends with Satan is Real:

The Satan from South Park, back in his younger, [...]

Maru in Slow Motion

Maru is one of the internet’s most popular cats. His owner recently got a high-speed camera, so we can now watch his antics in extreme slo-mo. The double jump at 1:02 is awesome.

They hate us for our freedom

The following letter to the editor in Salida, Colorado’s The Mountain Mail uses a phrase uttered by politicians during election season that has always bothered me:

Somehow, Kingston, Tenn., remembered what so many have forgotten. We are given the freedom of religion, not the freedom from religion.[empahasis added]

People who say this are completely clueless about the [...]