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The internet decided to eat this entire post so forgive the short rewrite you see before you. In short form, yes. This site is totally real. It is not a parody, and it is delicious. I could honestly read it all day in some kind of bizarre amused fright at what is only describable as the intellectual equivalent of starting directly into the vortex of a black hole.

Crap. Some. Buy.

They’re all taking crazy pills in the Academy this year. I wasn’t even sure if Morricone was definitely getting an award by the end of it.

Speaking of Religion, I just finished watching one of the best films of the last half century: The Nun, which was snubbed by the Academy in 2004:

While at boarding school, a group of girls suffered under the torment of a cruel and sadistic nun until the day they could no longer bear the abuse… and the nun was mysteriously never seen again. Years later, brutal and unexplained murders begin killing the members one by one. Feeling the familiar and evil presence of the nun from years ago, the surviving women regroup in an attempt to save their lives and lay the nun to rest one final time.

Tagline: Not all water is Holy

The Nun was drowned by the children whom she tortured and now (18 years later) manifests herself through water to kill her victims in the manner of Patron Saints. Although she didn’t come close to the terror of the Gingerdead Man, I’m putting the Nun up there with top female villains Nurse Ratched and Anne Wilkes.

For all his faults, Mitt Romney, the Mormon, is ironically the only plausible Republican candidate for president who hasn’t been married multiple times. Meanwhile, the current GOP front-runner was once married to his own cousin.

So while I’m not going to co-opt the right’s “pretend advice for the people I want to see lose anyway” schtick, I’d still suggest that using the polygamy stuff against Romney may be, shall we say, really goddamn stupid.

The berries that I’ve been eating for the last few days, that I couldn’t remember the name of, are Cherry of the Rio Grande (Eugenia aggregata). Here’s a photo:

From Time:

Brace yourself. James Cameron, the man who brought you ‘The Titanic’ is back with another blockbuster. This time, the ship he’s sinking is Christianity.

In a new documentary, Producer Cameron and his director, Simcha Jacobovici, make the starting claim that Jesus wasn’t resurrected –the cornerstone of Christian faith– and that his burial cave was discovered near Jerusalem. And, get this, Jesus sired a son with Mary Magdelene.

I’m pretty sure they meant to write “startling claim” so I’m gonna go with that.

Startling claim? Not to most people on Earth. That someone was the Son of God (and simultaneously God himself), born of a Virgin, bodily resurrected and physically ascended up into the sky is the only claim that startles a rational mind. Seriously, people of all faiths have the tendency of treating their religious claims as the default position of reality and that the burden of proof is on everyone else to disprove it. I’m sorry, but it’s just not so.

Making a claim that contradicts everything we know so far (flying around on magic carpets, walking on water, invisble “auras”) requires proof. I support anything that opens discusion, but do we really need James Cameron and Dan Brown hauling out coffins and making elaborate conpiracies to come around to something that is clear if you only take a step back and give an honest critical look at Biblical claims? Don’t answer that.