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WTF Game of Thrones?
Though I haven’t read the books, I’m a huge fan of Game of Thrones. My wife and I have been watching the series from the beginning. While there have been several jaw dropping moments during it’s run, last night’s wedding reception scene was one of the jaw droppingist. After this last episode, I am convinced that GOT author George R. R. Martin is out to kill everyone and everything. Jeez, the Starks are hard to kill? They’re dropping like flies!
Here are some funny as hell reactions to Sunday night’s episode. I’m still in shock.
Are you a fan of GOT? What was your reaction to this latest blood spattered character purge?
Korean BaseBrawl.
I really have no idea why brawls in Korean baseball occur like this, but it’s funny as hell. It’s too bad we can’t settle all of our conflicts this way. 
OMG, This Really is Too Cute!
Having a rough day or week? Then you simply must check out Too Cute! On Animal Planet. It’s an hour of pure AWWWWesomness. The show is so sweet, that you could sprinkle it over your cereal, and still have enough left over to bake cookies
Sums It Up For Me.
A tip of the tinfoil hat to The Other 98% for sharing this. It would be nice to have a party of which corporations are not their most important constituents. Radical right or moderate right really isn’t much of a choice.
Pastor Sean Harris Wants To Beat The Gay Away From Our Children
Sean Harris, the Senior pastor of the Berean Baptist Church in Fayetteville, North Carolina, is getting hard core about what to do with those pesky, gender bending children these days: Corporal punishment. While giving a fire and brimstone type endorsement of proposed Amendment 1, the Amendment that would outlaw civil unions and domestic partnerships in the Tarheel state, Harris went off on a tangent about boys and girls who do not conform to patriarchal gender roles. Check out this transcript, in all of its hateful goodness:
“So your little son starts to act a little girlish when he is four years old and instead of squashing that like a cockroach and saying, ‘Man up, son, get that dress off you and get outside and dig a ditch, because that is what boys do,’ you get out the camera and you start taking pictures of Johnny acting like a female and then you upload it to YouTube and everybody laughs about it and the next thing you know, this dude, this kid is acting out childhood fantasies that should have been squashed.
Dads, the second you see your son dropping the limp wrist, you walk over there and crack that wrist. Man up. Give him a good punch. Ok? You are not going to act like that. You were made by God to be a male and you are going to be a male. And when your daughter starts acting too butch, you reign [sic] her in. And you say, ‘Oh, no, sweetheart. You can play sports. Play them to the glory of God. But sometimes you are going to act like a girl and walk like a girl and talk like a girl and smell like a girl and that means you are going to be beautiful. You are going to be attractive. You are going to dress yourself up.’”
Harris later back pedaled, and claimed that he was joking; does that transcript seem like joking to you? No? Me Neither.
This is exactly the kind of venom filled rhetoric that promotes domestic violence in the home, bullying in the school, and hate crimes in society, and for what? To force a child who may be wired a little differently, to conform to what society and religion dictates as proper? I call bullshit!
I could go on a rant about a child’s sexual orientation and how homosexuality or at the very least, the crossing of gender lines is completely natural. I could also stand on my tinfoil covered soap box, and preach about acceptance, love, and understanding of each others differences. The fact of the matter is that most rational people understand all that. The fact that Amendment 1 is likely to crash and burn is a testimony to that fact.
It’s the hateful homophobes like Sean Harris who do not understand that sexuality is naturally in a perpetual shade of grey. The decision to hate the difference in sexuality is the choice, not the difference in sexuality itself. Hopefully, the Sean Harris’s of the world will one day come to understand this.
Until that day comes, most of us will continue to use our voices and our votes to beat the pray away.
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PLAYING IT STRAIGHT – A Month of Giving Up Everything Gay – Vice Magazine
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Some really funny stuff here from Jamie Taete at Vice Magazine.
Jamie undertakes a 30 day experiment in which he gives up being gay. He undergoes many therapies and lifestyle changes, and rates their effectiveness from one to ten.
The article is not only hysterically funny, it also proves a point. You can’t change who you are, right down to sexual orientation. The faster you can accept that, the happier you’ll be! If only the Rick Santorums of the world would realize that.
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The Word – Affirmative Inaction | April 8, 2010 – Neil DeGrasse Tyson | ColbertNation.com
The Word – Affirmative Inaction | April 8, 2010 – Neil DeGrasse Tyson | ColbertNation.com
Colbert is dead on with this. You have to check this out!
