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Post by RobertGraves on Jan 10, 2005 15:19:20 GMT -5
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Post by Tenarke on Jan 10, 2005 16:02:47 GMT -5
The word is that Torquemada Tech is offering a laboratory and field course; “Detection and Ignition of Witches and Wizards”.
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Post by Tenarke on Jan 20, 2005 21:01:12 GMT -5
This, I suppose, may be as well posted under “Religion” as anywhere else. www.nytimes.com/2005/01/20/politics/20sponge.html?thOn the outside chance that you are not afflicted with “Spongebob” down under, Robert, it is a rather mawkish children’s TV cartoon show. When my grandchildren visit I am sometimes required to view it. I don’t see that it has much to recommend it one way or the other, but by no stretch of the imagination does it advocate any particular life style or recognizable sexual proclivities. It only seems to offer prat falls and silly grunts as having some aesthetic and comedic value. As a new parent you may have this to look forward to. |
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Post by Aravis on Jan 21, 2005 2:17:08 GMT -5
I read that article Tenarke. My favorite bit was when Rodger's lawyer said that Dobson and his crew "need medication." ;D
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Post by RobertGraves on Jan 22, 2005 17:25:03 GMT -5
SpongeBob is on my radar but I haven't really watched it. We restrict Lucy's viewibg to two television programs for kids (both Australian) and she has toys from them. We have kept her away from commercial channels and all that but it is only a matter of time...
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Post by Tenarke on Jan 22, 2005 21:11:16 GMT -5
This will doubtlessly benefit Lucy and with a bit of luck help you retain your sanity as well.
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Post by Tenarke on Jan 23, 2005 18:13:18 GMT -5
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Post by demgoddess on Jan 24, 2005 9:17:55 GMT -5
Love the Dowd column! On a more serious Spongbob-related note, is anyone else disturbed by the fact that something can be labelled pro-homosexual simply by being pro-tolerance and that this is just accepted and reported as Christian rhetoric? I had somewhat come to terms with the fact that I am currently living in a country where it is apparently acceptable to think that homosexuality is a sin and that gay marriage taints marriages everwhere. Maybe I was being naive, but I hadn't realized that it had also become an accepted "Christian" point of view to be against tolerance, too. An assistant to Dobson called the video a "classic bait and switch," but I wonder if maybe their complaints are a classic bait and switch. Given that the video purportedly doesn't even mention sexual identity, perhaps this is just a backhanded attempt to discredit a promotion of racial tolerance. Then again, maybe I am just being naive and these people really are that crazy.  If this keeps up I am going to need medication! |
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Post by Wyndham on Jan 24, 2005 11:55:06 GMT -5
I too am confused on the same points. How 'liberal became communist' I can't imagine, or understand. How tolerance went out of fashion, I can't see either. Tolerance: don't have to be one, don't even have to like them -- just have to leave them alone as long as they leave you alone. Too simple! Just common sense no?
I said on TRP and I still think. Its George Wallace politics. Shout NIGAH loud enough and people will forget that there are other, more important issues. Some of those with the greatest right to be angry themselves will continue happy, provided that they have somebody else lower on the totem pole to kick. What we forget, of course, is that usually the man starting the ruckus thinks of us all as niggers anyway. Klassic Klan politiks.
About Sponge Bob. My nephew is a devotee. I guess I know what that means now. Truly though, you have to agree with the Nickelodeon exec: 'he doesn't have a sexuality. He's a sponge'. I boggle that somebody didn't shout something like that out during the speech . . . I would have had to gag myself and sit on my hands, if present, or I surely would have.
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Post by demgoddess on Jan 24, 2005 15:30:47 GMT -5
Actually, Wyn...studies of sponge sexuality have determined that most sea sponges are hermaphrodites. I don't remember what science course I learned that in, but I am sure my teacher would be happy to know I have finally put it to use.
Let's be glad that no one shouted this little tidbit or we would be hearing even MORE about the great SpongeBob scandal of 2005. ;D
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Post by RobertGraves on Jan 24, 2005 16:04:14 GMT -5
I am sure there are Republicans who are self-pollinating hermaphrodites too - not just 'sponges'.
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Post by RobertGraves on Jan 25, 2005 15:38:04 GMT -5
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Post by RobertGraves on Jan 25, 2005 21:56:50 GMT -5
Outrageous...  Polish court fines editor for insulting Pope A Polish editor who used to speak for the country's former communist rulers was fined on Tuesday for insulting the Pope in an article that mocked him as the "Vatican's Brezhnev" - the famously decrepit Soviet leader. Jerzy Urban, editor of controversial weekly Nie (No), called Polish-born Pope John Paul "a senile man" who should "go to bed, pick his nose ... or gobble caviar", just before the pontiff's visit to Poland in 2002. A court in devoutly Roman Catholic Poland fined Urban 20,000 zlotys ($8,500) and gave him a suspended 10-month prison sentence, calling his article titled The walking sadomasochist a "deliberate and tactical move and a measured provocation". The article compared the 84-year-old Pope to former Soviet president Leonid Brezhnev, whose last years were plagued by ill health, with doctors struggling to keep him alive and prime him for occasional public appearances. He died in office in 1982. Mr Urban, who was spokesman for Poland's then communist government in the 1980s, said he would appeal the verdict, which the pro-press freedom group Reporters Sans Frontiers criticised for violating the principles of freedom of speech. Criticising the Pope is taboo in a country where more than 90 per cent consider themselves Catholic. The Pope is also revered as a patriot who helped anti-communist activists when he was a cardinal in Krakow in the 1970s. Mr Urban, a maverick notorious for lampooning the Catholic Church, held his spokesman's position after 1981, when the communist authorities imposed martial law to crack down on a church-backed pro-democracy movement. - Reuters |
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Post by Tenarke on Jan 29, 2005 16:38:00 GMT -5
Apparently “poon” is a no–no, whereas “tang” is OK?
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Post by Aravis on Jan 30, 2005 2:12:50 GMT -5
It would appear so. "Tang" is a drink for astronauts. ;D
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