Sorry about the light posting! I've been a busy pony lately. Here are some quickies:
1. Fred Phelps (of "God Hates Fags" fame) sinks to a new low.
2. Slowly but surely, abortion rights are waving bye-bye.
3. I've coined a new media term: Hurricanement. When you hear/see updates throughout today, ask yourself if what you're seeing/hearing is being presented as information or entertainment.
UPDATE: I just heard somebody use the phrase "weather porn" without even the slightest hint of irony.
Discuss!
7 comments:
1. 'Fierce Freddy' Phelps needs a V-8. Seriously tho, I do believe the under-current of religious over-the-edge lemmings are coming to the surface. Why? Because they can. They're encouraged by a number of different factions who want fire-n-the-sky to wipe out all but themselves. Hmm...
2. Sigh. Yup, SD is bad. Don't get preggers here.
3. It's an okay word.
Hurricanement? As somebody who experiences a seriously guilty pleasure in watching/experiencing natural disasters, I'd say it's "Enterainment" all the way. If you're in the hurricane area and are watching the mainstream media for actual information, then you probably deserve to die. They're always wrong.
Wow... when you said Phelps sank to a new low, I was pretty morbidly curious about what it would be... worse than I had thought, though.
Link!
When one of those Phelps nutzoids comes up to me telling me about how the Supreme Deity hates gays, I always say, "That's funny, She made so many of them."
Then I listen the gears pop and ping in their tiny little hating, fearful brains. They don't know which part to be more outraged about.
Excellent links, SP.
Now back to viewing weather porn (my family is from New Orleans, they're fine).
Oh, and as to the main topic... I dunno. Usually I love tracking natural disasters, but my fondness for New Orleans has made this one rather difficult for me to watch.
There's something positive in the way the Phlelpers are revealing themselves to be total frothing lunatics. If they keep this up they will start to discredit homophobia.
CNN's hurricane truck got hit by a fence and don't work no more. So sad!
We need to design something like a tank jack with an armored camera on it that uses that NASCAR technology to keep the lens clear, and just plunk a whole bunch of those in the path of the storm. Preferrably pointed at trailer parks and other flimsy structures so we can watch them come apart.
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