• I hate this Mac mouse. You have to have a deathgrip on it to right click, and half of the time the trackball doesn't move a webpage. #
• Where the hell is the volume/mute button on Mac OS? Argg… nevermind, found it. #

…for some people, is both disturbing and depressing.

Journalists who have a bias in any direction of the political spectrum beyond “facts” should be dragged out of their houses by the people and shot.

The job of a Journalist is to inform the population; an essential component of any Republic that ensures its citizens can make smart decisions when casting ballots.

When Journalists take it upon themselves to slant an issue, insert their own commentary, or effect political change towards an agenda they personally support, they are violating their duties in the same way as a gynecologist who gets off on fondling your girlfriend during an exam.

• DeviantArt.com annoys the crap out of me. Simple search for "Facebook icon" returns mostly Naruto drawings and pics of some fat goth chick. #
• Who is this #Trance person calling himself "Phrost? I've probably been using this handle since you were in diapers. http://ow.ly/2byyT #

…did he do this?

Super Mario Bros. from Andreas Heikaus on Vimeo.

I’m not sure if it’s possible for a sentence that begins with the words “Archaeologists discover…” to be anything other than awesome.   Image is clickable, goes to appropriately awesome article.

Stumbling around the net this morning, I came across this:

UNCW prof vows to destroy atheist student groups: “I seek power over the godless heathen dissident”
Cory Doctorow at 10:07 PM Sun

A Supreme Court decision forced a California state university Christian society to accept gays as members as a condition of receiving support from the school (“Other groups may exclude or mistreat Jews, blacks, and women — or those who do not share their contempt for Jews, blacks, and women. A free society must tolerate such groups. It need not subsidize them, give them its official imprimatur, or grant them equal access to law school facilities.”).

This ruling has upset Mike Adams, a prof at UNC Wilmington. He’s vowed to disrupt atheist student societies by filling their rosters with Christian evangelical students, “to use my young fundamentalist Christian warriors to undermine the mission of every group that disagrees with me on the existence of God.”

As PZ Myers points out, if the situation were reversed, Adams and his fellow travelers would doubtless be even more apoplectic: “I can just imagine what would happen if I tried to turn freethinkers on campus into militant disruptors of other organizations: their faculty advisors would descend on me in fury.”

But Mike Adams isn’t looking for debate. As he says, “I do not seek robust debate. I seek power over the godless heathen dissident.”

The reason I’m sharing this is simple. For a long time I’ve pointed out to people on my various websites, social media outlets, or in person, that as the members of a group with a shared world view or belief system dwindle, those that are left grow progressively more rabid and more radical. And this is something we’re seeing right now with fundamentalist Christianity.

As we (hopefully) continue the march of progress towards a society that would make Carl Sagan happy, this problem will grow in direct, inverse proportion to said progress. The further we shrink the gaps in which the conventional notions of “God” hides, the more violently will his believers defend their faith. In the next few decades, I’m sincerely expecting to see an increase in Fundamentalist Christian violence, including domestic terrorism. Don’t believe me? Ask George Tiller.

The vast majority of Christians are moderate, modern, and have no qualms crafting a distinction between secular materialism and their faith. In this regard, they’re just like the majority of the followers of Islam. And like the followers of Islam, I wonder if some day, in the future, one of more talking heads will regurgitate the words:

“Not all Christians are terrorists, but all terrorists…”

It’s just that it happens to be dangerously easy to generalize and marginalize any group by pointing to the most extreme members of that group; because the average person is busy going about their normal life and doesn’t have the time to put much thought into shades of gray.

Anyway, I’m rambling. This is what happens when you type out a blog post in three bursts, in-between doing genuine work. I guess this would be the part where I bring all the strings of thought together for a conclusion, but that would require going back and re-reading everything I wrote. Instead, I’ll just say this:

The harder some of us try to blaze a path into the future, the harder others will try to take us back to the stone age. Mostly because they’re just scared, partly because they’re just assholes.

• At least 50% of political blog posts seem to be about how someone on the other "side" is complaining about something their "side" did too. #

• I'm convinced we're sliding towards a global monoculture. If we don't destroy ourselves in the next 1000 years, humanity will be boring. #