Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Go read this Jeff Jarvis post about Michael Powell’s idiotic NY Times Op-ed.
Can’t we just get rid of the FCC?
BTW- I was channel surfing today, and stopped briefly on some soap. Why did I stop? Because there was an exceptionally hot half naked chik dry humping some half dressed guy on the bed. It caught my eye and my finely honed (horned?) interest. And I am supposed to be outraged by Terrell Owens and some bimbo?
So now it is official- Barry Bonds and Jason Giambi took steroids. And so did probably half of the players in MLB. Really- I think it was a change in Brady Anderson’s workout routine that caused his HR’s to leap from 16 in 1995 to 50 in 1996. Really- he was just seeing the ball better.
To be honest, I don’t care if Bonds took steroids, and I couldn’t disagree with Jay Caruso more:
Bottom line for me is this: Bonds is going to break Aaron
Maybe I am naive, but I find nothing controversial about the United Church of Christ commercial. The message is quite clear- everyone is welcome. Period.
It is only the existence of some real intolerance within certain religious communities that makes them sensitive to the honesty and clarity of the message in this commercial.
NBC and CBS are cowards.
*** Update ***
This dovetails nicely with the above story:
jury made up of United Methodist Church clergy convicted a lesbian minister Thursday of violating church law by openly living with her partner in a committed relationship.
The Rev. Irene Elizabeth Stroud could be defrocked as a result of the ruling, which came on the second day of her church trial. The same 13-member jury was set to meet Thursday afternoon to decide her penalty.
Methodist law bars “self-avowed, practicing homosexuals” from ministry. Nine votes were necessary for a conviction and the jury voted 12-1 to find Stroud guilty.
The last time the 8.3 million-member denomination convicted an openly gay cleric was in 1987, when a New Hampshire church court defrocked the Rev. Rose Mary Denman.
Like The UCC commercial said- everyone is welcome. Mind you, although I oppose the ruling in the ‘case’ here. I believe the Methodist church has a right to come to that decision if the Reverend was aware of the rules. They have the right to make their own rules of practice- the UCC should have the right to air commercials showing how their values differ.
Great News!
Chris Muir’s Day by Day comic strip is returning tomorrow.
Since I started using My Yahoo! several years ago, this is the longest running most emailed picture of the day I can remember. It was originally up on the 10th of November, and it is still one of the most emailed.
Figures.
One of the things I hate most about modern politics is that it is omnipresent- nothing is free from politics, and I blame a large part of that on the activist liberals who make their home in the Democratic party. My latest example is a real corker.
The National Communication Association, whose yearly conferences I have all but abandoned because my desire to suffer through scholarly endeavors such as The Most Popular Fag and Hag in TV Land: Queer Kinship and Camp in ‘Will and Grace’ has been sated throughout the years, does have one useful feature- a listserv.
The listerv generally holds announcements, position announcements, and general queries. A very useful feature, and one of the few real benefits of NCA (other than their journal publication). However, also in th listerv is a running commentary on issues of the day, and now the leftist twerps want to once again use an academic organization to pursue their political beliefs.
This time, the morons want the NCA to ‘boycott’ any city which happens to be in a state which does not offer marriage rights to homosexuals. Forget the details, what is supremely offensive is that they just wish to use the clout of all the members to make a political statement that will please a distinct minority of the membership.
One would think that rather than boycotting a city, the National Communication Association would instead strive to hold the conference in a res dtate that recently banned the practice. Then when in the city, we could hold forums, debates, and engage in- CONSTRUCTIVE COMMUNICATION.
Not so for the small-minded largely tenured bullies that make up the professionally sensitive and always aggrieve advocacy wing of the NCA. That just makes too much god damned sense, and they might have to hear ideas that scare them. In other words- opposing ideas.
As it is, I have sent numerous letters to the editor, one Jennifer Peltak, and she has never seen fit to include my comments in the listserv, for whatever reason.