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Every now and then, I peruse FreeRepublic’s boards, just to take a look at what the “enemy” is thinking — what I see sometimes scares me.

Pray for President Bush - Day 2753

And it shall be mine eventually. Seriously, you could ping away like Annie Oakley with this thing, considering the fact that you’re firing shotgun shells.

If you haven’t visited “Rifftrax”:http://rifftrax.com before, check it out!

It’s the guys from Mystery Science Theater 3000 doing their thing again — they’re not in space, and the two guys who did the voices of Crow and Tom Servo are just playing as themselves, now (trademarks and all that), but let me tell ya; they’re just as funny now as they ever were. They were obviously the writers and well as the actors back on MST3K, and it shows.

How their stuff works now: you get set up at Rifftrax.com, and you buy an MP3 audio track directly from them (they’re usually about 3-4 bucks). Then, you sync it up and play it along while you’re watching the movie (don’t worry, it’s easy) — just play it on anything you want: an MP3 player, your stereo system (Nina and I played it on her laptop).

And, let me tell you… they haven’t lost it, not one bit. I swear to God, I thought my sides were going to split open at times.

I don’t mind paying them the three or four bucks to download it, either — this is the world of “new” media I’ve been telling people about, and I don’t mind helping it out.

“Neanderthals ‘were flame-haired’ - BBC News”:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7062415.stm

Anti-Ginger Propaganda! Bah! I expect no less from the BBC. Finally they’ve shown themselves for the racists they are!

“JK Rowling outs Dumbledore as gay”:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7053982.stm

Seriously, this is the most transparent publicity-increasing move I’ve ever seen.

At first, I was upset: “Common sense — meet JK Rowling. She and you have apparently never met.” As if fundamentalist religious-types need _another_ fucking reason to get outraged over one of their favorite targets!

Then, I realized that the _Harry Potter_ series is over and done with, all kids that have read its stuff have _already_ done so, and there’s probably very little accusations of “GLAAD”:http://glaad.org type interference that could go on here. She’s more than likely just trying to increase sales as much as she can for this dying series.

(In case you didn’t know, GLAAD-type interference is where GLAAD pays certain people or authors to publicly state that previously non-sexual characters in books or stories are actually _secretly_ gay, just to… well, just to do whatever the hell it is that GLAAD actually wants to do. I sometimes wonder, myself.

I do know that to GLAAD, there are only two types of people; those that are gay, and those that are secretly gay and waiting to come out. Make up your own mind about what that means.)

It was this one and the one from Consumer Reports (Mean Failure Time — 100 Watt Challenge!) that had me laughing out loud.