May 12, 2011

Random Thoughts

I've been just a wee bit busy recently with lots to do at work and preparing for a wedding, so in lieu of a more focused essay here are some random thoughts and links:

Sarah Palin has a lovely 'Dear Leader' portrait out; attached is a humorously and inaccurately apologetic article.

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Apparently the ideas that gays who want to bring their children to church should be welcomed as per Jesus' advice isn't one that we can all agree on.  The prideful, the divorced, single parents, and those who have committed adultery in their hearts are all still a go, of course.

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As a high baritone who loves Wagner, I've dreamed of becoming a heldentenor ever since my voice changed.  Since Walkuere is my favorite opera, and since Siegmund is the role that young heldentenors sing starting out, it was only fitting that I finally nail the high A technique on the Act I finale, specifically the bit starting around 5:00.  I was literally hopping up and down with joy.

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Osama bin Laden is dead.  And yes, the order seems to have been to kill absent a conspicuous surrender, and yes, I'm fine with that.  But what I don't get is the sentiment in the sudden outpouring of fake MLK Jr quotes: thousands of Iraqi draftees got killed, hundreds of women and children died because a Predator saw a terrorist in the same house as them, all largely without comment.  But the Big Bad bites it and suddenly everyone has a conscience?  It's like in a bad movie where the "noble" hero slaughters his way through a horde of nameless lackeys without a second thought and then stubbornly offers mercy to the villain whose evil schemes got them all killed to begin with.

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Also: there's got to be a way to make a good tasteless joke about Osama being sent to a (pick one: Star Trek Convention, Blizzcon, Pokemon tournament) for his eternal reward*, but I haven't found it yet.

*Because, VIRGINS, amirite?  Yeah, yeah, there but for the grace of God ...

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Interesting question: to what extent do parents have the right to fuck up their children?  This in regards to: atheist complaints about religious indoctrination, thoughts of a foster child my parents had years ago, Richard Dawkins' long pause (in a video I can't find) after being asked point-blank if parents did or didn't have the right to teach their children what they want, and the fun pictures that float around the internet of kids dressed up as suicide bombers.

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Newt Gingrich is running for President.  Let's all fake cancer and hope he moves to Canada.

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Have watched several old videos of Ayn Rand and got quite the little shiver of a most delicious loathing.  Currently debating blogging my way through Atlas Shrugged as a sort of homage to the Slacktivist's Left Behind project.

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