I can't wait for summer

I need to update this more often, if only as a place holder, and nothing else. Bored at Audrey and Emma's father's house this morning--and waiting for a ride--I immersed myself in the only available magazines that interested me slightly: entertainment. The other choices were grim: Hawkeye Magazine, more sportsy crap, US weekly, and Golf Digest. I was enraged, and then amused, but more importantly I discovered some fabulous finds. Bruno is now going to be made into a movie! Hopefully better than the Da Ali G Show movie, more along the lines of Borat. But then I always did like Borat the best.

Also exciting is the August release of Final Destination 3-D. The only thing that could possibly top that is perhaps something literary, Victorian, and gory. Fortunately, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies might fit the bill. I am so very titillated about this book, I can barely see straight.

Dogma and spiritual fervor.

It's strange how fundamentalist beliefs like this form isn't it? People like to hold on to their certainty about a world view. So every world of he Bible must be true. EVERY WORD. Over the years the dogma just piles up. One piece of dogma is there to explain another and so on and so on. Then when people take these irrational ideas to their logical conclusions (the irony!) you end up with things that contradict themselves or you have ideas about morality that are just reprehensible.

All men are born into sin
which means everyone is destined for hell
but god is eternally merciful
so he sends his son to be punished in your place
so all you have to do is accept him and you'll go to heaven!
but if you're already born into sin anyway...
then what's the point in trying to be good?
you can rape your daughter and accept him later...
and everything turns out all the same!

Awesome person on SA: about Jack Chick, a terrible, terrible man