From Allusions to Illusions
Over at the Atheist Experience blog they do a wonderful comparison of the Batman Begins movie with the Sodom and Gomorrah story. It’s a bit long but the argument that Batman Begins is a retelling of the story with a humanist twist is fairly complelling.
I really like these T-Shirts. Sadly I think many will misread them.
From Fred Hicks livejournal:
I need a banner in my gaming area that says:
This is how I make you awesome.
I think if people kept that in mind while gaming it would definitely awesome up the experience.
New High in U.S. Prison Poplulation
Apparently we hit a new record… go us?
More than 1% of the U.S. population is presently in jail. Obviously if you are minority or poor than more than 1% or your community is currently in jail. I don’t understand how we accept that state of affairs as if […]
Due to the subtitle of this blog I get a number of people who appear to be searching for the difference between the words illusion and allusion washing up on the shores of my web pages. I suspect they flail about a bit and flee, whatever they gained from their visit it was not […]
I recently received an offensive and wildly inaccurate email about immigration. I took the time to respond to it rather than ignore it and thought I’d share it with my close person friend the Internet.
The following email was forwarded to me (formatting was scrambled but this is my bet guess of its intended format):
This […]
I was discussing prisons over lunch with some co-workers and came up with two ideas which seem interesting and certainly couldn’t hurt our prison problem.
First as a qualification to become a warden at a prison an applicant would need to have served some time in jail. Selecting and finding these people may be difficult, […]
Let’s assume that I made a sufficiently bitter and angry Valentine’s Day post. It would probably involve phrases like Black Tuesday and talk about the assumptions of society that people are always matched and happy. It would probably include a side note about the assumption that this happens by spending ridiculous amounts of […]
Recent quote by in regards to funerals being turned into media events.
“If the death doesn’t hurt you for who the person was, not what they did, the funeral shouldn’t really be for you.”
It isn’t a secret or anything, but I just wanted to mention PostSecret as one of the most profound sites on internet. While I can talk about the things that lie beneath masks and illusions, PostSecret catalogs those things.
I recommend everyone read/look at what’s there. It’s what I look forward to on Mondays.
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