The opinionated fool declareth:

I need a name for my snake. What is a good name for a snake?

Theme song for today's battle: Megadeth's "Crush 'Em" Enter the arena and hit the lights Step up now you're in for a ride This is war, ain't no fun and games We get up, you go down in flames. Last one standing wins the fight Hear us scream and shout all night Down on the floor and eat the grit This is gonna hurt a little bit Heads I win, tails you lose Out of my way, I'm coming through Roll the dice, dont think twice And we crush - crush 'em!! Stir the war machines! Notch arrow to sinew and go forth to meet thy fate, Christopher...

From RelapsedCatholic: Fabrizio Quattrocchi, a 36-year-old security guard kidnapped in Iraq, undermined the terrorists with his defiance. In contrast to Kenneth Bigley, the British hostage who never let up begging Prime Minister Tony Blair for his life, Quattrocchi refused to be humiliated. "I will show you how an Italian dies!" he declared in the second before terrorists murdered him. Rather than kneel before his grave, he rose in defiance. Canadian columnist Mark Steyn observed, He ruined the movie for his killers. As a snuff video and recruitment tool, it was all but useless, so much so that the Arabic TV stations declined to show it." (Emphasis mine.) AlJazeera makes me sick. What's even more disgusting is that AlJazeera has plans to make a US 24-hour news channel.

Over the counter Plan B is the perfect fix for our generation's ills. What's more, the "next step" as described by what my mockingly be called "women's advocacy" groups is to remove the age restriction of 18 years on purchases of the Plan B pills. The mind-blowing hypocrisy of trying to arrange things thusly would result in them not being old enough to score a pack of Marlboroughs at the gas station for that post-coital buzz. So, the drinking and smoking following high school football games will still be illegal. But at least the emergency contraceptives that these super-responsible high school freshman will use will be legitimately purchased. I mean, really, why worry about a twelve year old purchasing Plan B?

Interesting possibilities for extraction of embryonic stem cells without actually killing the embryos. ( Here's the link .) Gotta love the bonus cheap shot taken at "relgious types" at the end. What's most stupid about it is the fact that the quote from the token idiot religious guy is disengenuously used by the author of this article. The guy wasn't even commenting on the science, but on the fact that after they got done extracting the blastomere, they discarded the human embryos. But do you think that stopped him from attempting to make the "religious type" look like he was dismissing the entirety of the discussion? Course not. Learn to separate disparate arguments, moron. Oh wait, nevermind - the author doesn't think human embryos are human (what are they? fish embryos?) and so has a vested interest in continuing to mock those who disagree with him. So it's obvious enough what happened. The sad fact, though, is that pop-science Wired...

Everybody congratulate Matthew and Lindsey - they're engaged. :) Which means, you know, besides the fact that they'll get married, that there'll be a reception. And you know what happens at receptions, right? That's right: FREE EATS! And possibly free drinks! Also, they've asked me to be their Best Man, and on top of being honored, I'm relieved, because I think that means that I'm for-sure going to be allowed to go to the wedding reception and get some free eats as well as a swank bouquet (spelling?) pinned on my suit and get to look all important. In all seriousness, I'm happy for you guys! :) Here's to thousands of years of happiness ahead of you both! YEEEHAW!!

GIVEMEFUEL GIVEMEFIRE GIVEMETHATWHICHIDISIRE!!!

Want to be slapped by something unexpected? Start downloading and listening to this song (11.6mb). It's Iron Maiden from the mid-90s. I used to love Iron Maiden. Back in high school, I remember rambunctuous (sp?) trips to the movie theaters packed in either my old truck, or one of my friends' cars, with ye old Maiden going full volume hot. I used to think I was "hot shit" picking up some of the older Iron Maiden albums in the used and collectible music stores. Afterall, Eddie (Iron Maiden's "mascot") is this mummified, undead zombie guy, and the album covers always had him either sitting in an electric chair, holding a bag full of flaming skulls, shooting some kind of sci-fi ray gun or flying some sort of Gothic spaceship shooting out flames (for actual examples, look here ), which is really super-cool and hardcore if you're in high school, I guess. Anyway, I loved Iron Maiden back in high school just because of it's connotation - rowdy, wil...

I think my new favorite book is CS Lewis' The Abolition of Man . It's amazing how CS Lewis had the foresight that he did. I'd recommend it to just about anyone - it's a short read, but parts of it get a bit deep, and he makes some connected points, which means if you read it in 15 minute chunks you miss a lot of what he's saying because you forget about the context he's bring it up in. I had to reread a bunch of it for this, but yowza, is it worthwhile...

You have to laugh out loud when you see some of this stuff , but then you realize that world opinion is based largely on the pictures and bulleted headlines coming out of Lebanon, and then you maybe you frown and say, "Oh..."

Only cream and bastards rise.

Speaking of the English (from down below), here's some new info from there: link for 2005 British abortion stats . 186,416 total abortions in one year in a population of 50 million people will make a dent. 66% of those abortions were performed before 9 weeks. Well, that's pretty young so it's probably (nay, let us say definately - afterall, we're killing something, which means there is no doubt, right?) not human anyway.

My snake does not yet have a name. Any ideas? pic1 2 3 4 5 6 :) How about Luther? Ack ack ack!

Apparently 25% of Muslims in England think the 7/7/05 London bus bombings were justified! Moreover, 45% (almost half?!?!) think the US or Israel or both was behind the 9/11 attacks. A third said they would rather have Islamofasciest Shiriah tribunals running the legal system rather than British law... LINK ... Given the hard data about childbirth in the UK (liberalized and selfish Englishmen and women not having kids, Islamic immigrants having tons of kids) can it be anything other than a matter of time before they get their way, destroying the democracy ironically with their own majority? Odd how a hyper-sexualized society like the one in England can have such a problem. (Oh, yeah, I guess the problem isn't that they don't create their children, the problem is that they abort them...)

and another one.

More fake photography in Lebanon.

What the hell are you doing drinking from the Whites-only water fountain? Dhimmitude.

Well, that'll pump a little epinephrine into the blood. GO, BABY, GO!!!

The Raving Athiest continues ask really interesting questions. In this case he responds to a reader's comment about how personality can be altered by neurochemistry. Where will it lead the Raving Athiest (whom many believe is falling ill with a terrible case of "Belief"? And will his athiest readership die from choking on all that frothing in the mouth as the Raving Athiest... well, as he puts it, "will continue to believe in you as something more than the sum of your quarks. I have never seen your bodies but I know you by your thoughts. The words transmitted to my computer, seen through a screen darkly, are sufficient evidence of your existence. You will never convince me that you are just sparks emanating from gray matter; I would no more equate you with that than I would equate you with the sparks which transmit your words through my computer's memory. You may try to convince me otherwise, but your efforts will only further prove my point." What's r...

"Disgusting" doesn't even come close to describing this guy: LA Times op-ed piece on the Girls Gone Wild founder/producer Joe Francis . If you've got the 10 minutes, read it. It's pretty much thoroughly disgusting.

As an update from a post a while ago on the staged photos showing the victims in Lebanon of Israeli attacks (a girl is first shown dead, being loaded into an ambulance, then later being carried from rubble, then later somewhere else, with conflicting timestamps on the photos) - theres a lot still going on in terms of falsified photographic evidence and stories coming out of Lebanon. Here are some of the recent highlights: Reuters admits to altering a photo 1 2 and 3

Proud new owner of a ball python. :)

All you hear about on the news is how hot it is, and about Mel Gibson. Is it news that it gets really hot in the summer and that moviestars are morons.

Oh GOD! Ohhhhhh! You need to watch this if you can. In the name of Allah, all praise and glory be to Him, Allah, and his Prophet, Muhammad (Peace be upon him).

Some of the photos of "all the Lebanese killed nere Qana" which the media have been going crazy on (as an example of Israel's horribleness), may have been faked: For example, the Web site draws attention to a photo by AP’s Lefteris Pitarakis time stamped 7:21 a.m., showing a dead girl in an ambulance. Another picture, stamped 10:25 a.m. and taken by AP’s Mohammed Zaatari, shows the same girl being loaded onto the ambulance. In a third, by AP photographer Nasser Nasser and stamped 10:44 a.m., a rescue worker carries the girl with no ambulance nearby. Linkzorz.

Who wants to come to the KMFDM concernt in mid-October? It's going to be flat out killer.

I think Donahue might have a point .

I awoke this morning to find that I had amassed in ethereal and concentrated form in the South West tropics overnight, manifesting my awesome powers as Tropical Stome Chris . PH34R M3!!!