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Bow before Our Negro President who was also Inaugurated in Lego form; Watch a man Control LIGHTNING with the Power of Rock; and marvel at The self-assembling Lego Millenium Falcon.

Author's giving their books names like these Would save a lot of time, for the readers.

Think how bad his producer must have it.

Also, the new ant pieces from the Indian Jones Lego sets can be combined with a decapitated minifig to make a decent Khepri:



I've also finally gotten around to un-screening my "unscreen this if i'm dead right now" posts from Iraq. Well, they're still friends-locked, but anyway. There are fewer than I remember, so I must have forgotten to tag some of them, and I'll have to go through my posts manually now to find them all. Oh well. And BTW, this is NOT a subtle cry for help, I feel surprisingly un-suicidal right now.

Courtesy of Warren Ellis:
For senior, abortion a medium for art, political discourse

Art major Aliza Shvarts ’08 wants to make a statement.

Beginning next Tuesday, Shvarts will be displaying her senior art project, a documentation of a nine-month process during which she artificially inseminated herself "as often as possible" while periodically taking abortifacient drugs to induce miscarriages. Her exhibition will feature video recordings of these forced miscarriages as well as preserved collections of the blood from the process.

Truly, we are living in strange days. Though it wouldn't surprise me at all if this was a hoax, even that would still be horrific yet hysterically absurd. Ultimately, though, It affects my opinion on abortion not at all. What is that opinion, you may ask? Why, my opinion is that, as a male, my opinion doesn't really count. Abortion is an issue that affects women much more than it does men, to the point that any opinion that a guy might have is pretty much irrelevant. If I _had_ an opinion, it would be that the issue should be decided by the votes of biological females, and biological females _only_. Ideally, it would be all those who are between puberty and menopause, and not otherwise of impaired fertility, i.e., having already been sterilized, because they're the only ones who would be immediately affected. But realistically, that would be way too difficult to enforce, not to mention intrusive, and the whole under-age voter thing would be a deal breaker. Still, that's a matter for other heads than mine to work out, since, as I've already mentioned, it's none of my business. And if you're not a biological female, it's none of yours either.

Edit: The more I think about this, the more certain I am it's a hoax. Barring a comprehensive doctor's exam and DNA testing of the "miscarriages", I'm going to assume that the artist in question has simply found a creative use for menstrual blood, and a credulous audience to outrage.

Further Edit: I was right. Still, kind of disappointing that they didn't stretch the joke out a bit longer, they could have gotten days of headline news coverage out of this, making the eventual punchline that much sweeter.

The Bible is now officially being translated into LOLCat. Also, PZ Myers is officially Expelled.

Well of _course_ they're all nothing but thinly veiled Star Wars characters. What did you expect?

Priests brawl at Bethlehem birthplace of Jesus.

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AFP) - Seven people were injured on Thursday when Greek Orthodox and Armenian priests came to blows in a dispute over how to clean the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.
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Following the Christmas celebrations, Greek Orthodox priests set up ladders to clean the walls and ceilings of their part of the church, which is built over the site where Jesus Christ is believed to have been born.

But the ladders encroached on space controlled by Armenian priests, according to photographers who said angry words ensued and blows quickly followed.

God bless us, every one!

... KILLING UR SAVIOR. But really, it should be "GIVIN GIFTS TO UR SAVIOUR".