The Cranky Media Guy

…to tell this asshole preacher to go fuck himself.  It can’t be offensive to God ’cause His son told me to say it!

God hates tolerance, says official California chaplain.

An evangelical chaplain who leads Bible studies for California lawmakers says God is disgusted with a rival fellowship group that includes people of all faiths.

..and for the fascist future, too.

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OK, let’s say you’re a right wing writer of words and you want to write something about Barack Obama’s parents and how they might have met and how that might somehow “prove” that they or he are/is communist.  Would it make sense for you to, oh I don’t know, DO SOME FUCKING RESEARCH INTO HOW THEY ACTUALLY MET INSTEAD OF PULLING A STORY OUT OF YOUR ASS?

Of course, there’s always the possibility that how they actually met doesn’t line up with your fantasy version of how it happened, which would, of course, ruin your entire thesis.

So, you do the laziest thing possible, which is to simply not bother to try to find out how they met and just go with your science fiction version of the Obamas’ first encounter.  It’s fun to play pretend, isn’t it?  That’s why small children do it. - [Link]

This is the kind of story that I might consider a hoax because it is so ridiculous. If only…

Well, I’ve always said that the modern incarnation of fascism wouldn’t come with a shouting dictator but with a smiley face and a corporate logo - and here we are: Terror toys: Scan-It X-Ray Machine the Ugly Face of 21st-Century Toys. Yep, for todays young-uns, nothing is more fun than violating the privacy of their fellow citizens. I understand that the brown shirts and armbands are sold separately, but it does come with pair of rubber gloves for the mandatory body cavity search.

What’s next, a home waterboarding kit?

And another one bites the dust.  Revver, one of the sites touted as a “You Tube killer,” is up for sale.  OK, no big deal, you say.  After all, Internet businesses are sold all the time.  Well, yeah, but shouldn’t a “You Tube killer” be going for a bit more than the price of an average-sized house in the Midwest?  Seriously, “between $300,000 and $500,000″ for this would-be giant killer?  How the (wanna be) mighty have fallen!

Yeah, you have to assume Revver’s debt, but still…  I’m tempted to sell the Double Cranky Ranch (goats and all) and buy the damn thing myself just for the Hell of it.  It’ll be Revver 2.0 where all videos involve a Mexican wrestling mask.

Video site Revver shopping itself for a song