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Monday, April 19, 2004
The April 19 edition of stuff that amuses me (amusement comes in a variety of forms) Last week Comedy Central debuted the five-part series 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time, with the result being a largely predictable list: 1. Richard PryorI'm surprised that Godfrey Cambridge and Margaret Cho didn't make the list, there a few people who probably shouldn't be on it and the order is highly debatable, but all that pals in comparison to the outrage that this list doesn't recognize Carrot Top as greater than Bill Hicks even though Carrot Top has won infinitely more American Comedy Awards than Hicks. What actually interests me about this list is that it is not clear how it was put together. Who voted? What was the voting process? What criteria were they supposed to be basing their votes? None of this is made clear and yet the list is presented as authoritative. This reminds me of something else, and yes I am talking about the bane of my intellect. *** Patton Oswalt could have been on the list, but I suppose he was too busy answering questions to make an appearance. BTW the ending of Inside Out: Leah Remini is hilarious. Remini tells a fertility doctor that she wants to get pregnant, but doesn't have the energy to have sex all the time now so she just needs to know when she should have it in order to have the best shot at fertilization. Maybe it just me, but if you don't have enough energy to have sex regularly, maybe you don't have enough energy to raise kids. Just a thought. *** *** In a development directly related to the news contained in yesterday's entry, Steven R. Weisman reports in a New York Times story dated April 19 that Colin Powell is the on the outs with some members of the Bush Administration because the comments he is presumed to have made to Bob Woodward. Now this is all inside baseball, but somehow I doubt that Powell cares all that much about communication with people that left him out of the loop on the plan to invade Iraq. (I wonder if H.W. Bush has similar emotions.) *** C-SPAN is considering a delay in order to weed out one kind of content that some people don't like (dirty words), Renwick McLean reports in today's New York Times. I'm offended by displays of respect and/or support for Bush, but I'm not trying to get them banned. *** The legal division of the "war on terror" *** *** That I agree with some of what Christopher Hitchens writes in "Second Thinking: What I got wrong about Iraq." *** *** Doug Giles' April 17 townhall.com piece "Where Are God's Warriors and Wild Men?" Giles answer is not in Church, which one could be excused for thinking means they would not be "God's Warriors" but maybe I just don't understand the real situation: So why do most men avoid church? Here's the veneer stripped-away answer: going to church for the majority of men is an exercise in unwanted effeminacy. Church, for most men, has not only become irrelevant; it has also become effeminate. Hanging out in church for most extra-Y chromosomes seems unmanly and most men more than anything want to be masculine!Well that's an anti-God perspective if ever there was one. The current lack of strong men within the Church, both in the numeric and leadership sense, has crippled our cathedrals and has helped devastate our nation ethically. The masculine spirit being absent from the pulpit, the pew and subsequently the public square has not only slowed down the forward progress of the Church, it has also weakened our nation�s morality, increased our country�s secularity, and has assisted [owing to our absence] the lascivious Left�s re-definition of life, sex, marriage and law.Never once does Giles consider that maybe men are to blame for not fitting in with the church, a fact that makes perfect sense because masculinity always comes before Godliness. It is in the Bible. So how do we regain the masculine spirit in our houses of worship? How do we gird the Church to press on with that which is holy, just and good? How can we Christians fight the good fight honorably, for freedom, family and the flag? Here are a few things the Church can do.�While reasonable intelligent beings advocate that a monkey teach Giles a thing or two, there are people who agree with Giles. They also need to be educated by our primate friends. *** Condoleezza Rice saying the U.S. is worried about terrorist attacks around the time of the presidential election in November. Funny how this wasn't a big deal two years ago. One could almost think they only say these things when it benefits them to do so. |