Monday, February 4, 2002

Morons in the News: Taco Bell Caves to Guerilla Organization. Taco Bell has caved in to the demands of the religious extremist organization known as the American Family Association... [Morons Dot Org] 11:23:30 PM    Comments []

Morons in the News: Fundies Protest Sex. These three words can be taken in so many contexts and still be true... in this case, some fundies are bitching that condoms will be available at the Olympic Village... [Morons Dot Org] 11:20:37 PM    Comments []

Morons in the News: Oklahoma Governor: Racial Profiling is Spiffy. The governor of Oklahoma is proudly insisting that racial profiling is the way to go when tracking suspected terrorists... [Morons Dot Org] 11:17:41 PM    Comments []

Sickening: Two shops in Vancouver were raided last week for selling counterfeit DVDs. Along with the standard "billions and billlions of dollars lost each year" figure, the Motion Picture Association lawyer trotted out the connection that the profits from the sale of these illegal DVDs may help fund organized crime and terrorists. [via Lawrence] Morbus: whaaa? that doesn't even begin t... sigh. [Aaron Swartz: Secret Agent] I figured it out. The government's (and everyone else's) new code word is "terrorist". If you don't like something or want to instantly sway public opinion against something, call them terrorsts, or claim that they help fund terrorists. drug dealers == terrorists counterfeit dvd sellers == terrorists music or software piracy == terrorists I don't think people are really stupid enough to believe that crap. 3:17:19 PM    Comments []

Do drugs = terrorism?  A tenuous link between the drug trade and terrorism was made in two Super Bowl commercials.  David Kurz doesn't think it holds water and I, like most people, concur with him.  We support terrorism more through the purchase of fine oil products than drugs.  FWIW, I think the group responsible had heard about Afghanistan's opium production (heroin), and thought they finally had a way to tie the war on drugs with the war on terrorism.  A perverse twist to this logic is that the Taliban effectively banned the production of opium in 2000, so by eliminating them, we have probably paved the way for Afghanistan to regain its former 80% market share in the drug. [John Robb's Radio Weblog] 2:36:10 PM    Comments []

One series of commercials are worth noting. I believe they were run by the Partnership for a Drug-Free America. They linked drug use to terrorism. The premise is that terrorist organizations are funded by selling drugs which make their way to the US. So when you buy illegal drugs, you may be funding terrorism. They were careful to say "may" not "are." What's coming next. A link between abortion and terrorism? A link between voting Democratic and terrorism? A link between being black or jewish and terrorism? [Scripting News] Sheeeeeeeeeeeesh! 1:05:10 PM    Comments []

14440 » February 4 7:39 AM. Sounds like progress to me... The American Academy of Pediatrics released a report that children of same-sex parents do as well as opposite-sex parents, and despite some teasing, cope well. Seems that it's more important for two people to be in a loving relationship than what their sex is. I think it's a pretty big deal for a professional organization to produce this report. You? [MetaFilter] One comment: I've always thought children brought up in loveless(or sexless)environments were those you suffered, whatever the sexual inclination of the parents/guardians. 11:41:21 AM    Comments []