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Anticipating the Green Wave by almost 30 years, Jack gets rid of gas. (1978)

(Thanks deepsea33)

Jesus has appeared in the form of a Cheeto….. Again.

Waxy has a collection of various other clips that were taped during the quake.

Abbi from Curly Comedy writes:

Next question should be about what religion readers are. I think it may surprise the atheist author.

Fair enough. So what religion are you? (NOTE: This is not a thread that’s open for theological debate. Let’s keep it civil. Quakers, I’m looking at you!)

Just about done with Killing Pablo which is one hell of a read.

Finished Generation Kill the other day and had to skim the last third of the book. Felt like the author was writing a screenplay instead of a book so perhaps the miniseries on HBO is better.

Hopefully my Raymond Chandler books will come in today. Killing Pablo won’t last me the train ride home tonight.

From The Orwell Prize:

From 9th August 2008, you will be able to gather your own impression of Orwell’s face from reading his most strongly individual piece of writing: his diaries. The Orwell Prize is delighted to announce that, to mark the 70th anniversary of the diaries, each diary entry will be published on this blog exactly seventy years after it was written, allowing you to follow Orwell’s recuperation in Morocco, his return to the UK, and his opinions on the descent of Europe into war in real time. The diaries end in 1942, three years into the conflict.

(via Boing Boing)

There is no recorded instance where the uplifted hand of murder has been paralyzed — no truthful account in all the literature of the world of the innocent being shielded by God. Thousands of crimes are committed every day — men are this moment lying in wait for their human prey — wives are whipped and crushed, driven to insanity and death — little children begging for mercy, lifting imploring, tear-filled eyes to the brutal faces of fathers and mothers — sweet girls are deceived, lured, and outraged, but God has no time to prevent these things — no time to defend the good and to protect the pure. He is too busy numbering hairs and watching sparrows.

He listens for blasphemy; looks for persons who laugh at priests; examines baptismal registers; watches professors in colleges who begin to doubt the geology of Moses and the astronomy of Joshua. He does not particularly object to stealing if you won’t swear. A great many persons have fallen dead in the act of taking God’s name in vain, but millions of men, women, and children have been stolen from their homes and used as beasts of burden, but no one engaged in this infamy has ever been touched by the wrathful hand of God.

Robert Green Ingersoll – “The Great Infidels” (1881)