July 03, 2004

Religious Insanity In Action!

A Day Late and Dollar Short post from the Funny Farm

I've been a little busy with a problem of my own (scroll down to the bottom for all the gory details), so I haven't had time to do my regular daily constitutional around The Fashionable Left Bank Of BlogistanTM. In a related aside, the Funny Farm Canada Day celebration has been cancelled this year. D'oh!

So you can imagine our, um, discomfort, while reading a few posts once I finally got things settled down around here.

Or, if you'd rather not imagine our discomfort, you can keep on reading, and learn about some things you might not be aware of, but could impact your everyday life:

The Daily Kos shows us a post by feloow Michigander (I'm guessing by the name of) DHinMI about The Real Catholic Policy on Kerry and Communion. Apparently some religiously insane Repugnicant has filed heresy charges against the Democratic Senator from Massachusetts because he's a pro-chice Catholic. There's no word on whether this is a charge of heresy by thought, heresy by word, heresy by deed, or heresy by putting the knee in the groin. There is also no word on any parallel proceedings by the Catholic lawyer against the Gropenfuhrer or Puff Rudy Gee or any of the other pro-choice Repugnicants out there. Government officials declined to respond to Funny Farm queries as to whether this would be considered one of those frivolous lawsuits that are poisoning the court systems of this great nation...

The Hamster points to the story of a Female Dispatcher Fired For Living With Boyfriend. Apparently it is still against the law for unmarried, unrelated adults of the opposite sex from living together in a number of states, including Florida, Michigan, Mississippi, North Carolina, North Dakota, Virginia and West Virginia. Further, in North Carolina, The statutes also contain a law against "opposite sexes occupying same bedroom at hotel for immoral purposes; falsely registering as husband and wife.". Strike another state off of the tourist destination list...

XOverboard updates everyone on the evil twin to the Coalition of the Wild-Eyed, The Digital Brownshirts. Seems that an organization called Focus on the Family decided that the only reasonable means of protest for Fahrenheit 9-11 was to publish Michael Moore's home address. Of course, being the upstanding paragons of virtue that they are, I'm sure the Digital Brownshirts will be denouncing this underhanded personal attack with their usual wit and wisdom...

And finally, the Modulator tells us he's not too happy about the new premier security screening avaliable to some guests of the airline during their travelling experience. Fellow OSP member (I think) Mark A.R. Kleiman provides the details...

Posted by (: Tom :) at July 3, 2004 12:01 AM