More Religious Stupidity

    Today's Journal Times featured an article about Dale and Leilani Neumann of Weston. They were convicted in 2009 of second degree reckless homicide in the death of their 11 year old daughter, Madeline Kara. She died in 2008 from a treatable form of diabetes because her fucking stupid religious zealot parents prayed instead of getting her medical help. These negligent, ignorant superstitionists allowed this poor girl to grow weaker and weaker for several weeks until she became too sick to speak, eat, drink or walk. They ignored suggestions from the girl's grandmother to take her to a doctor. They put their religious beliefs ahead of their daughter's well being and she pays the price. If your precious beliefs prevent you from going to the hospital, that's your business. In all honesty, I hope whatever condition you're not getting treatment for kills you. The world will be better off without you. However, your religious views should not allow you to endanger others. Dale and Leilani have proven beyond all doubt that they're incompetent at raising children. Their remaining children should be permanently taken away from them and they should be locked away where they can do no further harm. That is the sanest course of action to take.

Performance Enhancing Drugs

  The moronic jackasses at Fox News have stated that baseball players should be allowed to use performance enhancing drugs and for once, I agree with them. Let them take all the p.e.d.s they want. In fact, they should make it mandatory in all sports. After all, they're paid enormous salaries to play and we should get our fucking money's worth. Especially given the amount of money we have to pay to attend these sporting events. So juice them up with steroids, growth hormones and whatever else is out there and damn the consequences! They clearly have no qualms about using them. They make more than enough money to purchase the best health insurance plans available. Sure they'd be high risk because of all the damage the drugs will do to their bodies, but so what? And if they develop roid rage, we put them down like the vicious animals they've become.

We Are Information

  Information has become the new currency of the 21st century. It seems like everyone is champing at the proverbial bit to gather intel on people. I just read an article about a company that uses sensors to track the movements of GPS enabled smartphones in order to gather information about the habits of the smartphones' owners. The collectors of said data process it and sell it to their clients so they can better sell their products and services. As this technology becomes more ubiquitous, the amount of data gathered about our movements and habits will grow exponentially. The question is how much privacy will we lose as a result of this technology? Big Brother already exists to some degree in our society. However, unlike in Orwell's fictional Oceania, this Big Brother hides in plain sight. Instead of Thought Police, we have Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and the like. And we voluntarily supply information about ourselves to these sights. Couple that with the information surreptitiously gathered via our smartphones, computers and tablets and the amount of information about us that exists on the Web is probably staggering. Data mining has become very lucrative for some companies and unlike precious metals, it won't run dry. This is a double edged sword we're wielding. In the wrong hands, we could end up prisoners in an information driven techno-dictatorship where our movements and information are constantly tracked and collated in order to keep us in line.

Russia's Stand on Homosexuality

  The Russian government has made it clear that it won't tolerate any pro LGBT demonstrations during the upcoming Winter Olympics. I say there should be all kinds of pro LGBT demonstrations at the Winter Olympics. Peaceful demonstrations only though. There should be pro LGBT symbols displayed everywhere. If Putin doesn't like it, he can shove it up his ass sideways with a dead cat. This fucking old school commie is going to have a hard time quelling protests with the whole world watching. Putin does have his supporters though. That old right wing religious zealot Pat Buchanan has been singing Putin's praises lately. This mentally defective product of an archaic and obsolete mindset has no place in a modern enlightened society. I get so tired of conservatives talking about constitutional rights when they're so intent on denying those rights to groups they don't care for.

God Loves Uganda

  The title of this blog post refers to a documentary about Evangelicals proselytizing against homosexuality in Uganda. These motherfucking hypocritical religious bigots have the unmitigated gall to support Uganda's law making homosexuality punishable by death. They talk about how Christians are being persecuted in other countries like North Korea yet think nothing of persecuting others. And they do this in the name of their nonexistent God. When are people going to realize that religion is nothing more than superstitious bullshit? Religion encourages people to stop thinking and swallow ludicrous idiocy as though it were unimpeachable truth. Religion is irrational, illogical and insane. I will be so happy to see it come to an end.

Journal Times Article

  The Racine Journal Times ran an article asking readers to answer five questions regarding their hobby. I responded to their query and they ran the article on New Year's Day. The photograph below was taken by Scott Anderson, a photographer from the Journal Times of me and my Great Cthulhu Horror Clix miniature.