The Carnival of the Vanities Number Nine, Number Nine - Page 5

The Raving Atheist - Wiccan Troop Offers Welcome Alternative to Atheist Boy Scout - Darrell Lambert, who was ordered to declare a belief in God or leave the Eagle Scouts, enthusiastically welcomed the Wiccan's offer. "The Wiccans have astutely perceived that the cold-blooded rationalism which compels me to reject every form of deity will gladly accommodate both the God and Goddess of their pretentiously silly Earth religion," he said. "I look forward to memorizing the Wiccan Rede, and the Law of Three, mixing powerless potions and casting ineffective spells."

Solonor's Ink Well - Minion Mission #1 - Can I ax a question? How in the world do you think you're going to save someone's soul or turn them onto the paths of righteousness (or into a paying customer) by berating them in public? Hello? McFly?

Shootin' Ahrns

Ravenwood's Universe - I Am Woman, Hear Me Shoot - Most women today fear firearms. They are taught by society that guns are for men. They are told that guns are complicated devices, that they are not intelligent enough to operate. Women are led to believe that firearms are powerful tools that they don't have the strength to handle

Six Degrees of the Blogosphere

skippy the bush kangaroo - the tip jar - william quick stopped blogging because he couldn't afford it? great. that's the free market system at work, kids. and besides, nobody asked him to start blogging in the first freakin' place. nobody asked any of us.

Everything Must Go - Blog Monitors - The view that white people are the scourge of civilization and just "uncool" is so pervasive, that until I started listening to some of my "self- talk" a few years ago, I really wasn't aware of how anti-white I'd become.

Space Opera

Ipse Dixit - One Cut Too Many - These two casting decisions have led me to wonder if Lucas is perhaps employing a meta-plot device to cause us all to gradually come to despise Anakin by never allowing a competent actor to play the role.

The Two-Backed Monster

The Kitchen Cabinet - Deconstructing Sex and The City - And some of the women I know who watch the series and claim to love it because "it's just like my life!" are actually so incredibly fragile that I can't imagine them surviving the serial-dating lifestyle I gather is portrayed on the show. They'd be curled in balls on their sofas in a week, popping antidepressants and speed-dialing each other.

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