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- January 2008 -
Friday
1\25\08 - 10:27
AM GMT
Smith forms union, goes on
strike
The Rev. Brendan Powell Smith sought solidarity
with his fellow workers this week by forming a labor
union. Upon formation the seven-member Bible Illustrators
Local 1 declared a general strike until the union's
demands are met by management concerning higher wages,
health insurance, and paid vacations. Smith could be
seen this morning in a picket line outside his own home,
carrying a sign reading "The Bible isn't going
to illustrate itself." Smith, who claims to work
directly for God, says he can hold out "for weeks
if necessary." His employer remains unavailable
for comment.
Monday
1\22\08 - 9:32
PM GMT
CNN brings you latest on CNN's
crappy reporting
America is awash in crappy news coverage of the
US presidential race, but leave it to the dedicated
journalists at CNN to keep you informed and up-to-date
on just how crappy their own political reporting has
become. A new story
at CNN.com investigates the strongly dissatisfied
reactions the public is giving CNN's simplistic and
dunder-headed coverage
of the Democratic South Carolina primary in which Edwards
is ignored as a viable candidate, and the assumption
is made that voters will pick their candidate based
on whether they decide it's more important that they
have the same gender or more important that they share
a similar skin color.
Friday
1\11\08 -
7:20 PM GMT
David Loses a New Son, Gains
a New Hat
  Happy
new year! The
Brick Testament website rings in 2008 with seven
brand new illustrated stories from the continuing
saga of King
David. It's wacky mayhem as David impregnates a
married woman and arranges to have her husband killed.
When this newest addition to David's ever-growing collection
of wives gives birth to a little baby boy, God forgives
David for his sins, but strikes the baby dead. On the
brighter side, David gets a shiny new hat after his
army massacres the Ammonite people and enslaves the
citizens of Rabbah.
Monday
1\5\08 - 11:01
AM GMT
People still having children
In a showcase of extreme selfishness and blithe
disregard for the suffering of other human beings, people
all around the world continue to have children. Both
in the world's most developed countries where each new
child will use up far more than its share of global
resources in an epic and ultimately doomed Tragedy
of the Commons, and in the least developed nations
where children are likely to be born into lives of grinding
poverty and malnutrition, parents show little or no
signs of guilt or remorse for the strain each new child
puts on the human race as a whole. Perversely, most
new parents are shamelessly self-congratulatory and
wastefully lavish resources on their new offspring while
billions of other fellow already-living, already-struggling
human beings bear the brunt of their callouses, self-absorbed
behavior.
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