“The Arc of History is Long …

… but it bends toward justice.”  Martin Luther King said that, and today it proved true.

The Supreme Court overturned California’s ban on gay marriage. So Californian gays may now become legally married (again).

Unless I”m mixing up my legislation, this is a bitch-slap to the Terminator, who vetoed a bill legalizing same-sex marriage a few years ago. I blogged about it here.

It’s not legal in every state (yet) but the legal precedence has clearly been shown.

Good times.

Einstein said it. I believe it. That settles it.

Christians have, for decades, referred to Albert Einstein as a vanguard for intelligent people who choose a religious path. Even though this is an ad hominen approach to validating something as true, it always irked me to think that Einstein was intellectually lazy. I’ve always believed that when Einstein used the word “God,” he was referring to the laws that govern the universe,and not a higher form of intelligence that created the universe.

A recent discovery was revealed today opens the kimono on Einstein’s religious views:

In the note, written the year before his death, Einstein dismissed the idea of God as the product of human weakness and the Bible as “pretty childish.”

and later:

“For me,” he added, “the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.”

I think that people invoke “God” because they need an excuse to stop thinking. I think Einstein would agree.

At Last

With mixed emotions, I am here to announce that George W. Bush is the most unpopular President since we started measuring it. My emotions are mixed because I finally have statistics to back up what I’ve been saying for years. However, I wish I had been wrong all along, and that GWB wasn’t really all that bad.

But he is.

It’s kind of interesting to note, that he has not sunk below Nixon with regard to approval rating. He’s only risen above Nixon (and Truman’s) disapproval rating. His disapproval rating is 71% and his approval rating is 28%. Nixon’s approval rating was 22% but his disapproval rating never got above 66%.

This means that there used to be more people who didn’t feel very strongly one way or t’other. These days, 99% of those polled had a very strong opinion about Bush.

What does it mean? I’m not sure.

Amazing Article

In Rolling Stone magazine. Here is the print version, which is easier to read.

It’s the story of a guy who infiltrates a modern Christian weekend seminar. Bear in mind, for those of you who know me, this is exactly the type of life experiences I had until I was 32 years old.

Scary stuff, but the article is both poignant and extremely hilarious.

Proof

The Mayan calendar ends in the year 2012. Because of this, many people theorize that the world ends at that time.

For those of you who know me, I bet you can guess my stance on this. I’m a’gin it! There is absolutely nothing about the Mayans that tells me they had the inside scoop on when the world would end.

1. They sacrificed humans.
2. They practiced slavery.
3. They almost went extinct because they weren’t able to manage their own resources and because they fought amongst themselves and paid too much money to their religious powers.
4. They believed that the king brought them rain, so when it didn’t rain, they killed the king.

How bright were these people? As a society, they frankly sound about as bright as we are. Did they really know when the world would end?

In a word, no. So relax people.

Besides, to prove how stupid it is, both Michael Bay AND Roland Emmerich currently have films in development–both with the title of “2012.” If directors who have given us such visionary and scientific masterpieces as “Transformers,” “Pearl Harbor,” “The Patriot,” “The Day After Tomorrow,” and “Godzilla” are grabbing a piece of the 2012 action, it is veritable proof that life will go on as expected in 2013.

I wonder if, in 2011, people will sell their stocks and jump out of windows because the end is nigh. If they do, someone will be buying those stocks: me.

Same Ol’ Same Ol’

Hillary Clinton is stooping to fear-tactics to scrounge up votes in Pennsylvania. She’s invoking images of Osama bin Laden to imply that she’s more qualified to deal with the next drubbing we’re going to get from terrorists.

Please.

She’s proving how similar she is to the past regime. That’s the last thing we need.

“Take A Bow”

I’ve recently discovered a song by Muse called “Take a Bow.” It’s one of those increasingly rare times when I can’t stop playing a song over and over–it’s that good.

The lyrics below give you a hint, but the music does a great job of conveying the anger. Download this one and check it out!

Corrupt
You’re corrupt
Bring corruption to all that you touch
Hold
You behold
And beholden for all that you’ve done
And spin
Cast a spell
Cast a spell on the country you run
And risk
You will risk
You will risk all their lives and their souls.

And burn
You will burn
You will burn in hell, yeah you’ll burn in hell
You’ll burn in hell
Yeah you’ll burn in hell
For your sins

And our freedom’s consuming itself
What we’ve become
It’s contrary to what we want

Take a bow

Death
You bring death, and destruction to all that you touch
Pay
You must pay
You must pay for your crimes against the earth
Yeah hex
Feed the hex
Feed the hex on the country you love

Now beg
You will beg
You will beg for their lives and their souls

Now burn
You will burn
You will burn in hell, yeah you’ll burn in hell
You’ll burn in hell
Yeah you’ll burn in hell
You’ll burn in hell
Yeah you’ll burn in hell
For your sins

Glory to God in the Highest. Peace On Earth and Good Will Toward Men.

My new job is at a Korean-owned company, so I will never have to utter, hear, read, or write the following word. Nor will I have to spend useless hours of my life participating in the following practice:

>SOX

For those of you who know what this is, you will know and appreciate the blessing that has been bestowed upon me that I shall not have to participate in this most vile pestilence that was ever unleashed upon the American people by it’s own leadership. But before I go I would like to lay one last curse upon Jeff Skilling, Ken Lay, Andy Fastow, and the rest of the scourge that caused …

SOX.

I am overjoyed …

Nobody Does It Bitter

When speaking truth, have one foot in the stirrup. - an old Turkish proverb

At a San Francisco Rally a few days ago, Barak Obama told a group of supporters that middle-class Americans are so “bitter” over their economic situation that they end up clinging to things like guns and religion.

And Hillary Clinton is spinning this comment so much that some say this single comment will cost him the Pennsylvania primary. This was said even though Barak Obama was never supposed to win Pennsylvania.

But the funny thing about the hubbub is that every single word Barak Obama said was true. It couldn’t be MORE true. Americans ARE bitter. And they DO cling to things like Religion and guns because they offer comfort (to some) in a time when the system has not.

This has only made me like Obama more, and like Clinton less. She’s an opportunist, willing to trash the Democratic victory so she can wrest a few more delegates for the long cold journey to the convention. It’s as if she’s a squirrel hiding acorns in her jowels, and she’s willing to get them any way she can.

I think the Lady doth protest too much, and if Pennsylvanian’s are smart, they will smell the political stench and vote accordingly.

 

My Life in Porn

OK, it’s time for me to fess up. I’ve been quite active these past few weeks while not working, and I’ve made more money than I did during my “vanilla” job.

The fact is, I’ve been shooting porn scenes with a production company called “Uninhibited USA.” I have been friends with one of the line producers there for about 15 years, (Hi Terry!) and he’s always told me that if I ever wanted to try my “hand” in porn, that I only had to say the word. Well, here I was with nothing to do, and no girlfriend, so I realized that if I didn’t do it now I would always regret it.

I did my first scene last last Thursday with a very sexy black girl named Tanika Blue. She turned out to be very sweet, and very normal and very talented. You can look her up if you want, but since this has been a semi-family blog, there’s no sense in being overly offensive. Anyway, when the scene “culminated” on queue, the entire crew applauded me. What an ego-trip!! I enjoyed it so much I did another scene on Monday, and I have another one scheduled tomorrow.

And for those of you who have noticed today’s date, you might want to think about the veracity of this post.