Nominee for Stupid Quote of the Day

Overheard from a coworker:

"I'm not racist or anything, I just don't like the black pens."

wow...

Link Dump: "Because I Really Want to Laugh" Edition

I'm a little tense right now because I just found out about yet another racist college party. I'll blog more about it later, but right now, I need a little something to brighten my day:

• Regarding Those Internet Searches You Found...(NSFW!) "Apparently, you're too busy—or is it callous?—to concern yourself with the fact that prostitutes need to eat, too. And guess what? Turns out they tend to crave poultry."
• Love Is Two Souls Dwelling In One Macramed Vest "Dan took a great deal of time deciding on his clothes for this date with Donna. He had to wear something that showed who he was as a person. Something that showcased his inner being. The essence of Dan."
• ::iLL WiLL PreSS:: (NSFW!) Squirelly wrath!!
• Evil Grass You were warned...
• Strange New Products Featured items include the Libido Patch, meat-seasoned shotgun shells, and Celebrity Butt Plugs...I $h!t you not (no pun intended): Celebrity Butt Plugs.

Ren is Awesome

So, I was browsing the web and visiting one of my favorite haunts, when I came across a post about a woman in Maryland who wants to ban Black History Month. The whole letter is so ignorant that it's laughable, but here's a tidbit: (Sorry, but [blockquote]'s acting a little wonky.)

Why must our children, no matter what race, creed, religion, etc., be forced to celebrate Black History Month?...

Many children in the schools are not black and therefore have absolutely no reason whatsoever to celebrate Black History Month. This is the exact same thing as many children are not Christian and therefore are not required to celebrate Christian holidays...

The whole idea of Black History Month is for black people. There is no Asian History Month or English History Month or Middle East History Month or Russian History Month or Australian History Month.

Therefore, none of these groups has the chance to celebrate their heritage or famous people from their heritage.

I am formally requesting that all activities in the school system that are about Black History Month be banned permanently...

The best reply I've read so far comes from Ren:

I’m with you Lisa,

For one whole month we are consumed with the realization that black people exist and play a part in our great society. Now we have to give them the month of February all to themselves. Now I can’t turn on the radio without hearing Hip-Hop or turning on the television to watch a show without having to see a black person. I’m horrified.

Allow me to be the first to call up support and rally for a English History Month. When are we going to start devoting academic time to White Anglo-Saxons? Apart from the whole study of Mesopotamia, Greeks and Romans to the Middle Ages, fiefdoms, Columbus, Reformation to Enlightenment period, the first colonies, and in-depth history of our founding forefathers, manifest destiny, great depression, world wars…when are we seriously going to start focusing on the non-minorities? We’re allowing Anglo-Saxon heritage and culture to fade from memory, this is simply unpardonable. For instance in my school I recall we devoted three whole days of class time to study about China, a maximized use of time considering the 5000 years of history that it encompasses. And the Korean War, the forgotten war? We just simply forgot to study it. In fact we studied Watergate longer than the Vietnam War. To this day it sticks with me, the shock at the body count and emotional turmoil that resulted from Nixon’s resignation.

Frankly I find Lisa’s argument very reasonable. For instance, I was also the kid that never got a valentines card from anyone in the class at school, so I think since it didn’t hold any obvious benefit to me, we should just wipe Valentine’s day off the calendar. And what the F is about this St. Patrick’s Day, everybody’s Irish on St. Patrick’s day? As an Atheist I think not, dump it. And Christmas? Please, there’s no proof Christ was born on the 25th of December. I celebrate the pagan start of winter solstice with everybody else. So we can dump Christmas as well. And New Years, why should I be forced to celebrate New Years based on your contrived calendar and not by the lunar cycle, like normal people do? Dump New Years. Let’s get back to basics, first by doing book reports on religious holidays. We can all pretend we’re in seminary and just think of the ease we’ll have at citing sources for our reports on Easter, Christmas, and Hanukkah. You’ll only ever need to cite one book and you don’t have to worry about footnotes cause I hear these books are the lone authority and practically inerrant.

/extremely grumpy this morning
P.S. Wha? There’s no Asian American Month? Some people have been seriously lying to me.

Ren, you're freakin' awesome!!!

Cause of Death: Abortion?

Lawmaker wants Tenn. to issue death certificates for abortions

No, that's not a typo.

The bill is being introduced by Rep. Stacey Campfield as "a way to track how many abortions are performed in Tennessee."The measure would give abortion providers 10 days following an "induced termination of a pregnancy" to file a death certificate with the state Office of Vital Records.

But, there's already a law in Tennesse that does that. The only difference between this law and the one that Dummy McD'uh is proposing is that a death certificate would include vital information such as a woman's social security number. The current records don't contain any identifying information regarding the women receiving the abortions.

There are three things wrong with this bill: First of all, if it is passed (and that's a big if), then the death certificates become public record and the information could be used against these women. Secondly, how can one justify the existence of a death certificate when there wasn't even a birth? Thirdly, it's just plain dumb!

I Heart Chocolate!

For a geek...

For a freak...

Something unique...

Always sweet!

(It's called an "approximate" rhyme. Lay off, will ya?)

Just been thinking...

I've had a lot of things on my mind lately:

• I suck at money management. It's not as if I dump my paycheck into luxuries like DVDs, expensive clothes (my jeans have patches in them!), and jewelry. I spend my money on rent, groceries, and, of course, gasoline. (Man, I wish the buses stopped my job!) But every month, I end up paying out the rear for bank fees because my accounts always overdrawn.



• How can people possibly think that this behavior is inoffensive?



• I suck at time time management. No matter how early I get out of bed, it always seems as though I'm always late and I'm always behind!



• I've realized that there are some online communities out there that are like cliques - petty, trifling high school cliques. I've been visiting some activism logs lately, one in particular. (I won't name names...well, maybe not yet.) I had visited the blog often, but I had only recently began to post my own comments. When I posted, I had a dissenting opinion from the majority of the group. Not only was opinion challenged, which was expected, my loyalty to the cause was questioned! How could anyone claim to be one of us, they said, and possibly think that way! Petty bitches...I don't know about you, but I outgrew that kind of immature mess a long time ago.

Ah well, life goes on...

Link Dump: "WTF Is Wrong With These People?!" Edition

Conn. University Op-Ed Piece on Rape Draws Outrage, Protest
"An opinion piece in a college newspaper, described as satire by editors, drew strong protests Thursday from members of the Central Connecticut State University community outraged at its topic - extolling the virtues of rape."

An Irvine cop ejaculates on a motorist but escapes criminal liability
"No one disputes that an on-duty Irvine police officer got an erection and ejaculated on a motorist during an early-morning traffic stop in Laguna Beach...When the case went to trial, however, defense attorney Al Stokke argued that Park wasn’t responsible for making sticky all over the woman’s sweater. He insisted that she made the married patrolman make the mess—after all, she was on her way home from work as a dancer at Captain Cream Cabaret."

Students from Minn. school wore blackface, KKK costumes and nooses
"A party that asked students to come dressed “politically incorrect” has prompted an investigation by Macalester College officials who learned one student was costumed as a Ku Klux Klan member and another wore blackface with a noose around his neck."

Exotic dancers' 'stigma' too much for charity
"The Breast Cancer Society of Canada has rejected the offer of thousands of dollars from a fundraising group of exotic dancers in Vancouver."