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I was in an airport yesterday and, despite my best efforts, overheard a clip of a speech Obama was giving somewhere. He was rebutting against some sort of rumor that he was a Muslim, and stating he was brought up as a good and proper Christian of some flavor. At which point the audience cheers. If you’re a politician, have any faith you want. Faith isn’t a bad thing. But it has no place in a political setting. I shouldn’t know what faith a politician follows unless I do some digging and look it up. It’s a firm opinion of mine that faith and religion should not be allowed to be mentioned during a political campaign. Decisions that affect everyone in a city/state/country should never ever ever be brought about with influence from one’s faith or the faith of those it will affect. So electing someone should not have anything to do with their faith or yours. Yelling “Christianity!” in the deep south is like a rock band yelling “Boston!” when playing at the Garden (or whatever bank it is that owns it nowadays). You’re looking to buy votes with your faith. And that’s not cool. It degrades your platform, and (in my humble opinion) makes the voter’s ballot worthless.

I’m going to keep writing people in on my ballots until a candidate comes along who declares he’s an atheist, or never mentions religion at all. I want the decision maker I elect to make decisions based on what is best for the people, as decided by logic. This year my vote is split between Feynman (don’t care if he’s dead, I’d still pick him) or Cthulhu. I really can’t pick. Any feedback on this is appreciated.

PS – I know I’ll get some flak for not picking a real candidate, but I can’t pick among any of them in good conscience. Please do “bring it” though, it should be talked about imo.

Originally published at The IggBlog. You can comment here or there.

Korean scientists have apparently cloned glow-in-the-dark cats. linky:

I has a color

They were showing vids of RedCat all day on CNN, and he does indeed glow red under UV light. His nose, eyelids, and parts of his ears specifically. GreenCat seems to glow all over.

First: What the mother fuck?

Second: Where can I get one?!

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So there’s this house near me. It steals holidays. 2 years ago around this time they put up a nativity scene in the barn they had connected to the house. Basically it was lifesize scarecrow-esque straw dolls all arranged in the proper fashion. They have it in the basement of this barn with the storm doors open so it’s visible to the road. It was pretty cool for a season I guess, but they left it up. All year. For 2 years now. The dolls are all faded and whatever dyes they used are running from moisture. Moisture has gotten to the straw too… the dolls are all hunched over and saggy. Honestly, it looks like a family of zombies about to feast on a baby Jesus. It’s looked like that for a solid year now.

They didn’t stop there though. Last year they put up electric candles in the windows. Pretty typical, except of course that they never took them down. This spring I noticed that they hung easter eggs in the dead tree out front, dangling them from strings. It’s almost terrifying. This halloween they put electric lit plastic pumpkins in the windows, right next to the electric candles. There’s no consistency to their placement with respect to the candles, they were just kind of tossed in the windows.

This family is collecting holidays and violating them. I half expect them to steal a turkey from the turkey farm down the street and crucify it in the front yard next thanksgiving. Maybe steal a baby, dress it up like a Leprechaun, and hang it from the barn roof for St.Patty’s day.

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Pretty much everyone is used to getting spam by now. And it’s usually all the same, and usually pretty benign. Subject lines like “Enlarge your penis”, “Go up one chest size in a month, naturally!”, and stuff like that. As a guy it’s a little odd getting both emails back to back, but whatevs. It’s the internet. They’re simply suggesting my junk may need enhancing to please the massive throng of “ladiez” that clearly travels in my wake. One I got today stood out a little though. I guess suggesting wasn’t enough… Here was the subject line: “All jokes aside, yeah you do got a tiny cock”. I laughed when I read it since it’s so far from the standard boring spam I’m used to getting. I guess if spam starts becoming funny it will bug me less to find my inbox full of it.

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They need to mint a new set of dollar coins. It’d have a picture of a carwash on one side, and a quarter with a line through it and “For your convenience” embossed on the back. I don’t know what the connection is between carwashes and the dollar coin is, but they have it for eachother big time. For a while it was great, most DIY carwashes would take quarters, $1 and $5 bills, and some even took plastic. Now it’s “Use the goddamn dollar coin or get the FUCK out!”. The best are the machines that dispense their almighty tokens and don’t take quarters, you can only change bills into dollar coins. They tell you this is “for your convenience” using reasoning that’s clearly over my head. I swear, carwashes are the only reason the dollar coin is still in circulation. Thusly my idea for the new coin design. Someone from the US mint must have taken a bullet in the dick for someone at the Underground Carwash Illuminati or something.

Originally published at The IggBlog. You can comment here or there.