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 Saturday, October 16, 2004
This sure explains a lot. The Republican rant is driven by fear. So they spin it and the media just buys right in. Nothing about Bush's lies. Why the SCLM is 'so-called;. 4:00:49 PM 
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Vintage Christian sex instruction LPs. Mark Frauenfelder:
Postfun reviews old Christian sex-ed records.
 Dad lights up his pipe and starts talking about nocturnal emissions.
DAD: One of these nights before too long you may find some of it (semen) passes off in your sleep . . .
BOB: (worriedly) But Dad, that's wrong, isn't it?
DAD: No, son, it's not wrong . . . No, it's true that to waste the seed deliberately - to do anything knowingly to make it come is a very grave sin. Because God designed that secretion in a man for one purpose. That is to be, well, like one of his raw materials in the creation of a new life . . . Wet dreams are different. Sometimes the supply of semen becomes too great before a man is married and these dreams are sort of a safety valve . . .
BOB: But Dad, why do fellas get these feelings before they get married?
Dad responds with a metaphor popular in the softcore films of Zalmon King. That is to say that God made sex as necessary as food for survival. Dad adds that sometimes this procreative desire inconveniently appears before the wedding vows are taken and the bloodtests are registered with the county seat.
Link (Via Sound Scavengers) UPDATE David sez: " Here are four mp3's from the Sex Instruction LP that you recently wrote about.
How Babies are Born
Girls and MenstruationThe Problem with Growing Boys (which you quoted)
The Marriage Union
[Boing Boing]
I just about did a 'spit take' when the father asked if he could smoke in his son's room. And then the son had a ready match to give the father. The discussion of sex, while just about as uncomfortable as you might expect from the source, had some unintended laughs. The father used words like groping and coupling in their non-sexual purposes. But the best was when the son asked the dad what to do when these strong 'urges' arose. The father replied, 'A small prayer' and strong activity, like sports, anything as long as it was hard. As long as it was hard!! Really unintended humor ;-) 2:31:50 PM
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The tyranny of email. Mark Frauenfelder:
Interesting article on how to deal with email more effectively.
I maintain that programming cannot be done in less than three-hour windows. It takes three hours to spin up to speed, gather your concentration, shift into "right brain mode", and really focus on a problem.
Unlike face-to-face conversation and 'phone calls, people can communicate via email without both paying attention at the same time. You pick the moments at which you pay attention to email. But many people leave their email client running continuously. This is the biggest baddest reason why email hurts your productivity. If you leave your email client running, it means anyone anytime can interrupt what you're doing. Essentially they pick the moments at which you pay attention. (Even some random spammer who is sending you a crappy ad for a get-rich scheme.) This is bad.
Link (Via A Whole Lotta Nothing)
[Boing Boing]
Absolutely true. I only turn on Mail when I want to read email and turn it off otherwise. If I am working on something else, it gets my attention. Mail is much further down. They can call if it is really important. (Of course, I use voice mail and caller ID to filter out unimportant stuf.) 2:05:14 PM
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Schoolhouse Rock that tells it like it is. Cory Doctorow:
Pirates and Emporers is a pitch-perfect send-up of the "Schoolhouse Rock" musical civics cartoons of the 1970s -- easily the most-compelling educational materials aired on US TV -- in which the dark history of US international policy (funding terrorists, arming atrocity-mongers) is set to jaunty music and simple animation.
Link
(Thanks, Cassidy!)
[Boing Boing]
This is extremely funny satire, using the framework of Schoolhouse Rock to instruct us about the differences between Emperors and Pirates. Also a very catchy tune. Made my day. 1:53:48 PM
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How to get off the fed "do-not-fly-list". Xeni Jardin:
This article on MSNBC indicates that getting off the controversial "do-not-fly-list" is as simple as modifying your name. Add a middle initial or a suffix, and you'll b0rk the data management system. The system seems to be so poorly designed that it cannot prevent false positives -- but may also allow an actual terrorist to slip past by just inserting a middle initial. Link (via Declan's politech list)
[Boing Boing]
Sure makes me feel safer. We will catch all the terrorists who are to stupid is misspell their name. 1:44:20 PM
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Double Ph.D. Thankful For Opportunity To Attend Community College. Bush Really Pulled Through For Me, Man Says Here's what Bush said [at Wednesday's debate] in response to a question about what he'd say to a person who had lost his job to someone overseas: BUSH: I'd say, Bob, I've... [Opinions You Should Have]
It is one thing if the changes are creating jobs that require more education. But they are lower paying ones that simply require retraining. I guess Bush wishes they would just do what he did - rely one conected, rich friends and acquaintances of his fmaily to help make him succeed. 1:26:17 PM
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Reed Hunt responds to Michael Powell. Joshua Marshall has the whole thing. The jest is this though: But no one has asked the FCC to bar Sinclair from showing the program. There are only two issues for the FCC and only two requests to Chairman Powell.... [Rooftop Report]
Obvious propaganda gets a free ride on OUR public airwaves if it is conservative in nature, but one that is not conservative in nature causes a pay-per-view channels to drop it due to fears of FCC retaliation. Cute. Nice to see what the FCC really cares about (a an open discussion of politics does not seem to be it.) 1:10:43 PM
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Rove testifies in Plame leak. Rove Testifies in CIA Leak Investigation (AP): President Bush's top political adviser, Karl Rove, testified Friday before a federal grand jury trying to determine who leaked the name of an undercover CIA officer. Rove spent more than two hours testifying... [Rooftop Report]
Testifying under oath. Could mean that the investigation is nearing an end. 1:08:32 PM
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Yearning for the good ol' days of selfish hedonism All this hubbub about the Cheneys being upset at the mention of their daughter had me thinking -- where was this outrage when a certain Illinois senate candidate called Mary Cheney a "selfish hedonist" on the radio? Let me get this, umm, straight -- Kerry saying Mary Cheney deserves the same rights straight people have is somehow wrong, but Alan Keyes gets a free pass for calling her a selfish hedonist and a sinner at the FREAKIN Republican National Convention? Did I miss the public statement from the Cheneys?
Speaking of people down 51 points in the polls, Mr. Keyes had yet another embarrasment today when his 2000 presidential campaign admitted to violating the law and now has to return over $168,000 to the feds.
- David [AMERICAblog]
WHat hypocrites! We can talk about her sexual orientation in ublc and people in our party can call her a selfish hedonist, and that is okay. But if Kerry says something nice about her, it is tawdry. Where was their defense when Alan Keyes spoke? Gee, do you think they are trying to use this in a political, partisan manner? Sure seems to kept Bush's huge gaff about Osama off the news. 1:01:36 PM
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Jon Stewart rips Tucker Carlson on CrossFire - John in DC [AMERICAblog]
Here is a better version of it.This was a really important appearance. Jon stood up to both of these idiots, essentially saying that Crossfire is to a debate as a pro wrestling bout is to an athletic event. They just do not realize that his show is not about how stupid politicians are but how awful the media has become. When they asked if he would have a problem coming up with jokes if a particular candidate won, he should have said, 'No as long as you guys are still onTV.'
He just ripped into things that they think we should be talking about. They asked what Jon thought about O'Reilly's mess. He said he did not care. It was not important and where was their moral outrage. Tucker said he had none.
He was serious and they tried to treat him like a joke. Tucker asked him why he was not funny (of course, the audience got it and was just howling at the things Jon said). Jon said 'I won't be your monkey.' He rightly called Crossfire, and the other programs, theater, not news and asked them to do better. What a great moment to watch!. 12:58:49 PM
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It's late Friday night and THAT means... More Bush military records have been found by the Pentagon.
At this point, just fucking fire someone. How many late Friday nights will it take for the Pentagon to find all of Bush's military records that were supposedly all released months ago? And at this point, the releasing-them-late-friday-night trick has gone from cute, to annoying, to downright conspiratorial at this point. If these guys have nothing to hide then why the hell are they hiding these records, and why the hell are we repeatedly hearing about this late on Friday nights?
I'm sick of this president, I really am. We are devolving into a banana republic. You get elected president because your dad was president, you lie and start wars with impunity, and then you just keep violating court orders and no one does anything about it. It's sickening what these people have done to our country. - John in DC [AMERICAblog]
Friday news dump. It happens everytime. Funny. 12:50:58 PM
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