Presidential Election Comic Relief

It seems that for the past few US presidential election, the Republican party has not failed to provide ample comic relief to the election/campaign process. 2 elections ago, we had Sarah Palin. Then we had Michele Bachmann in the last election. This election, we have Donald Trump.

There appears to be an endless supply of clowns running for president in the Republican party.

Zz.

Theatergoer Tried To Recharge Phone Onstage!

Again, you can't make these things up!

A patron at the Tony Award-nominated play "Hand to God" on July 2 climbed onstage just before the show began to try to recharge his phone in what looked like an outlet. Ushers at the Booth Theatre quickly converged, and the young man was pulled off the stage.

And he couldn't charge his phone anyway, because it turned out that the outlet on stage was a prop that was part of the show.

This is an instance where public shaming is highly appropriate, and that this person's identity should be published. After all, do you really want him to propagate his stupid genes?

Zz.

Businesses Being Allowed To Discriminate Against GLBT

I don't know if everyone who is a proponent of this simply drawing a blind eye, or if the rest of the population is not seeing this.

As more and more states in the US and in various parts of the world start to accept and legalize gay marriages, there are now laws in other parts trying to allow various private organizations and businesses to refuse serving people or activities that these entities think are "contrary to their beliefs". Of course, they word it that way so that it doesn't sound as if they are targeting gays, lesbians, bisexual and transgender community. But they are.

But there is a side effect to this and everyone seems to have missed! Let's look at the case of this baker in Ireland who refused to make a silly cake:

"We just didn't want to be forced to use our creative skills to help endorse and promote a campaign message that went against our sincerely held religious beliefs," he said.

"We are just trying to be faithful to the Bible. We think it is wrong to use the law to force anyone to say something that they oppose, and we hope the court will take the same view."

OK, let's run with that, shall we? What if a Muslim person walks into this bakery, and requested a cake for "Happy Eid Fitr"? Will he also refuse to do such a cake? After all, it is "promoting" a festival of another religion, and what is more offensive to his Christian belief than the promotion of another religion that clearly claims that his belief is false?

The same can be applied to all those laws in the books in various states in the US. Are people of various religions can now refuse to serve those of the opposite religion? Keep in mind that the most serious attack on one religion is another religion, considering that each considers the others to be false! So who should you be most offended with, a GLBT person, or someone who practices another religion?

Yet, if this baker or if the laws were to say that we can refuse to serve someone just because of his or her beliefs, everyone will be up in arms and shouting religious discrimination! But that is what such beliefs and such laws allow! So why aren't people seeing and addressing that?

Zz.

Conservatives May Not Be Happier Than Liberals

First of all, these types of "survey" should be taken with a grain of salt. There is a lot of ambiguity here because it requires an interpretation of a survey result, which by itself (as shown in this report), can be "inflated".

So my intent here is to report and highlight this article is that you can't really use ANY of it to make any kind of strong statement one way or the other. If you do, then you are using very, VERY feeble data and analysis to support your argument one way or the other. Whether you are a conservative or a liberal, you can't neither use this, nor any of the previous survey, to claim that you are "happier" than the other. Nope, there are no solid, clear data and analysis to support your claim. You may THINK you're happier, but you have zero scientific evidence to back up your claim.

Zz.

How Big Is The Average Penis?

For me, or people everywhere, who have wondered about this, a new and extensive survey of all the studies so far has the result.

Published today in the British Journal of Urology International, their new study synthesizes data from 17 previous academic papers that included measurements from a total of 15,521 men from around the world. The data enabled the researchers to calculate averages and model the estimated distribution of penile dimensions across humanity. “It still just strikes me how many men have questions and insecurities and concerns about their own penis size. We actually do need good data on it,” says Debra Herbenick, a behavioral scientist at Indiana University, Bloomington, who was not involved in the study.

According to the team’s analysis, the average flaccid, pendulous penis is 9.16 cm (3.61 inches) in length; the average erect penis is 13.12 cm (5.16 inches) long. The corresponding girth measurements are 9.31 cm (3.66 inches) for a flaccid penis and 11.66 cm (4.59 inches) for an erect one.

So there ya go! Get out your ruler, measure, and compare!

Zz.

Phantom and Mangled Quotes From The Bible

This might be a show worth watching on CNN.

This article, to promote the CNN show, describes many versus that most people thought came out of the Bible, when in fact, they are nowhere to be found there!

See if some of the stuff you thought came out of the Bible were one of these phantom verses.

Zz.

Wendy's Won A Burger Blind Taste Test

I've always thought that Wendy's burgers were the best among all the fast-food joints. This fun blind taste test further confirms it.

Zz.