So I don't know if anyone here reads Yahoo message boards

Anytime Yahoo posts a link to a news story from Reuters or Associated Press or one of the other news agencies, they have a discussion forum where everyone can discuss the story. Needless to say, the dregs of the Internet hang out here and it is a good place to keep tabs on the pulse of the public. Anyway....this fucking post has been appearing over and over on the news posts and I think some whacked out Christian wrote a bot to spam the discussion forums. Posting it here for the sake of posterity and because I think it's really funny:


( [Think you might need Jesus Christ?] )

I have seen this post generate threads hundreds of replies long. I like it. It's kind of the online equivalent of that guy walking around in Central Park wearing a sandwich board sign saying 'Repent now SINNERS! Thy end is NIGH!' I guess those guys figured out how to write spam bots =) =)

VAIW (Veterans Against Iraq War)...

has an interesting essay just posted, written by a former MP about his experiences in Iraq. Basically, it's a huge rampaging out-of-control cluster fuck.

Child prodigies to no longer be accepted at Oxford

awwww....poor little kids


"Yinan Wang, the 14-year-old Chinese boy who clinched a place at Oxford University last
week, will be the last child prodigy to study there under reforms being considered by admissions tutors."

NY Times Op-Ed savages Bush

( The Swift Boating of Cindy Sheehan )

From the article:

"Mr. Bush's stand-up shtick for the Beltway press corps wasn't some aberration; it was part of the White House's political plan for keeping the home front cool. America was to yuk it up, party on and spend its tax cuts heedlessly while the sacrifice of an inadequately manned all-volunteer army in Iraq was kept out of most Americans' sight and minds. This is why the Pentagon issued a directive at the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom forbidding news coverage of "deceased military personnel returning to or departing from" air bases. It's why Mr. Bush, unlike Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter, has not attended funeral services for the military dead. It's why January's presidential inauguration, though nominally dedicated to the troops, was a gilded $40 million jamboree at which the word Iraq was banished from the Inaugural Address."

So is anyone but me reminded strongly of Poe's The Mask of the Red Death?

It was toward the close of the fifth or sixth month of his seclusion, and while the pestilence raged most furiously abroad, that the Prince Prospero entertained his thousand friends at a masked ball of the most unusual magnificence...

Because I think the US is living it right now, and it's a really creepy, bad place for us to be in.

Gakked from wickedwhitewolf....

The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Second Level of Hell!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:

Level	Score
Purgatory (Repenting Believers)	Very Low
Level 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers)	Low
Level 2 (Lustful)	Very High
Level 3 (Gluttonous)	Moderate
Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious)	Low
Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy)	Moderate
Level 6 - The City of Dis (Heretics)	Very High
Level 7 (Violent)	High
Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers)	High
Level 9 - Cocytus (Treacherous)	Moderate

Take the Dante's Inferno Hell Test

NY Times magazine article on Saudi oil production

Cut and pasted below to avoid registration:

( The Breaking Point )

Well if the article is right, I will probably be able to finish a Ph.d before the shit hits the fan for real =)

On the downside, my grandchildren probably won't be so fortunate =(