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Friday June 21, 2002 |
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of the Day Inconvenient Biblical Laws Andrew I. Kapust wonders why creationists don't keep kosher, as he proudly does. I accuse them of picking and choosing among Old Testament laws and pronouncements. Anything they like, like the six days of creation, or "Thou shalt not kill" (mainly as applied to fetuses) is the inerrant word of God. However, most of the other 394 laws (like not wearing cotton-polyester blend fabrics, keeping the SABBATH [Saturday] holy, punishing rapists by forcing them to marry their victims, etc.) they have been excused from observing by Jesus. I can't seem to find the list in the New Testament, however, that details exactly which laws can safely be ignored by fundamentalists. -- Things Creationists Hate |
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Blog I'll probably do some pets pages, with shots of the rodents and the snakes, since as everyone knows. animals are just so damn cute. I keep getting good ideas for site features, and then not actually doing them. Of course I've had the same problem on the D2 site for the better part of 2 years, so I'm sort of used to it by now. I'm very good at thinking of great features, planning them out in my head, and continuing to think of them as I play a game or watch TV. As opposed to actually, you know, doing them. • Website searches are funny. Looking on the site stats, I see a search this month for "carol grow nude pics". I have no idea who or what that is, but obviously "Carol Grow" is a woman's name, and someone wants to see her nude. My search on her name found a ton of sites, including this one, where she looks pretty damn good, at first glance. She's on some fitness show, and does a lot of flexing in a bikini, but nothing actually sexual. She seems to be your typical hot chick, but one that's not quite Supermodel quality. Fredrick's of Hollywood, rather than Victoria's Secret, if you grasp the difference. And if you don't, I'm not going to explain it here. Anyway, someone searched for pics of her naked, and there aren't any, at least not that I see. However on their search, at least on Google, a page from this site comes in at #13. It's my blog from May 8, 2002. Being as I'd never heard of the woman before seeing her mentioned in the search results, you might think it odd that the 13th best match on all the Internet for pics of her nude was a page from this site? Well here's the Google search description:
Now true, the four words are there, so I'm not faulting the search engine's functioning, but you'll note that for this to show up on my site stats, the person who did the search had to actually click the link. So why would some guy click this, based on the above excerpt? It couldn't be more obvious that this has nothing at all to do with nude photos of Carol Grow. Perhaps the searcher was desperate on his doomed quest, and was clicking everything, just in case? Or perhaps he was enticed by the description, since it seems to promise nude photos of someone, at least. Maybe even Pamela Anderson! She's got big inflated hooters, after all. So
here's your pic of her. Don't say I never gave you anything.
Which reminds me, I saw some photos of her (Pamela) a couple of weeks ago, apparently from some tabloid, where she had no make up on, and they were frightening. I wouldn't even have thought it was her if not for the captions insisting they were, and with a closer look the ugly old woman in the photos did resemble Pamela. It could have been her ugly, much older sister. Looking for those pics, I found one on this page, which is really worth a look. A bunch of side by side photos of celebs with and without make up on. Pamela is featured, as are Britney, Helen Hunt, Cameron Diaz, and many more. Farrah Faucett is scary, though since she's like 55, she does have a better excuse than most of the other ladies. Yes, that's really her. Kiss your fantasies goodbye. More news items. • Weird story from Argentina, sounds like a real life X-Files episode.
Funny how Aliens always attack remote areas, never downtown New York. I'll believe this about as much as the Loch Ness monster until they have some real scientific confirmation and evidence, not just hearsay from some farmers out in Patagonia. • In somewhat related news, there's a good article on Bigfoot this month on CSICOP. Various evidence is evaluated, claims are analyzed, and it's boiled down to this.
It would be cool if there were Bigfeets out there, but to believe that there are thousands of creatures out roaming the wilderness areas of the US and Canada, creatures that we've never ever found one dead, or anyone has shot or captured, or gotten in a credible photograph, is just too big a suspension of disbelief for me. They say that Bigfoot is just sneaky and shy and hides. Well so do hundreds of other animals around the world, jaguars in the jungle, wolverines in bushes and burrows, etc. Yet naturalists have had no problem staking out and finding those when they come to water holes, to hunt prey, etc. And keep in mind we're not looking for one or two Bigfeet somewhere; we're talking about a population large enough to breed and perpetuate itself. That requires lots of them. Thousands. Funny how 500 people a year find their footprints, but no one finds one of them. Must just be bad luck... • Talk about a gruesome and tawdry end. A Tennessee state senator was being investigated for exposing himself to minors, and with the case just beginning, he committed suicide with a shotgun blast to his chest. He'd apparently exposed himself to some teen aged girls in a motel jacuzzi, and probably done it a lot of other times in the past. According to most reports I've seen, a very small percent of child molestation type cases are every reported, much less prosecuted. Better off without him, before he moved up to rape or something, eh? • Interesting accounts of President Bush's graduation speech at Ohio State University. Apparently the school administrators and lots of cops were making rather dire threats towards anyone who dared not cheer eagerly.
So much for freedom of speech/thought/expression. "All citizens will make merry, under penalty of death." Yes, I'm quoting from Flash Gordon. |
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Thanks to an email from sighlintbob, we have the solution. I'm sure you were all missing sleep in your worry about it.
I hunted up the radio station's website, (tough URL to guess, huh?) and they do have a pretty extensive web section, with links to lots of interesting sites. It's actually a very good links section. However there's not one to this site, so perhaps they only link to some that they mention on the air, or they have gotten lazy about adding to the links archives, or they only update the webpage every week or two with the backlog of sites. In any event, it's nice to hear a plausible explanation for the big jump in hits that one day. I didn't get any email from the radio station guys before or afterwards, if you were wondering. Not that I'd really expect them to, I mean it's a website, and I'm not a celebrity, nor is the site hinting at some great mystery that can't be posted, but could be revealed in email (though that's actually a pretty good idea, come to think of it). I replied to sighlintbob's email, asking for some more details, and he got back to me with this:
Well, that's certainly flattering, eh? Segue from synonyms for "take a shit" to my site plug. Good thing I'm a hit whore, or this would probably offend me. I'll certainly accept "weird" as a site description, but "gross" I have to dispute. At least in most cases. Then again, if the radio guy had just said, "a nice site" would any/many of the listeners have bothered to check it out? Probably not. So anyway, the people who heard that obviously had no link to click on, and just typed in the URL into their browsers, and here they were. And that was the day I had the long essay portion about castration, which was probably the weirdest update thus far. Ironic, isn't it? |
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