The Binary Circumstance

Greta Christina explains why she is so angry in a very long but very good post.

As I’ve said before, I dislike the term atheist because it suggests that those who don’t believe in God are without something, which in our culture, they should have. They are defined in relation to theists. They made the rules so they set themselves up as the standard by which everyone else is judged.

It really comes down to rational v. irrational. A rational person requires evidence for his/her beliefs, an irrational person doesn’t.

This article from the Huffington Post may rank as the most ridiculous commentary I’ve read in a long time. Patrician Zohn makes a comparison between President Bush and the falsely-accused Duke lacrosse players that demonstrates how fashionable white male bashing is in liberal land.

While finding the lacrosse players guilty of too many parties, too much entitlement and their parents guilty of being rich and “smug” while defending their kids on TV, she downplays the outright crimes of others involved in the case then ends with this:

Really, it all boils down to feeling that the other person doesn’t matter as much as you do.

Believe it or not, she’s speaking to the lacross players, their parents and Bush.

What about the prosecutor?

What about the stripper and her false accusations?

Being a frat boy is not a crime. Using the criminal justice system to ruin innocent people’s lives is.

A more fitting comparison would have been between Bush, Mike Nifong and the stripper.

The fact is those frat boys just don’t matter as much as Patricia Zohn’s entitlement to pick and choose only those facts which support her strained analogy, just as Bush selectively chose facts to support his case for war, resulting in the deaths of thousands of innocent people.

While eating a salad at a Capitol Hill restaurant this evening I read Dan Savage’s column in The Stranger.

Savage quoted Joe.My.God who helped set up a fund to help out Mike Jones.

Jones said in an interview that he was broke and didn’t have a job since he’d given up hustling. I was shocked that no gay businesses had offered him a job and that gay organizations, especially legal organizations, had not offered him any help since he had accomplished so much, at great personal risk. Given how collectivist most gay groups are in their thinking, it is probably hard for them to accept that one man could accomplish so much on his own.

What if Jones had said, “So what if Ted Haggard is lying to everybody? It get paid. It’s not my problem that he’s conning all the Christians in his congregation and everybody else as well, including his friends in the White House.”

Details about how to contribute to Mike Jones using his e-mail (Massageandmuscle AT aol DOT com) and PayPal are in the Joe.My.God. post and Dan Savage’s post.

I’m surprised he doesn’t have a book deal yet. But I sent him $20 just because I think he’s very courageous and also because his outing Haggard gave me so much material that is right up my alley.

I’m using a statistics package that tracks the last 4,000 visitors to my site. It’s interesting to see which pages are visited the most often.

The most frequently visited page is the Binary Circumstance home page.

The second most frequently visited page is the Picture of the 2007 Kawasaki Ninja 250R.

I am pleased that two of my older posts have been climbing lately.

Hamlet’s Binary Circumstance (posted Jan. 2004), which is the first chapter of my book, is number five.

The Selective Service: Discrimination. Tyranny and Genocide Against Males (posted Sept. 2003) is number nine.

Out of the last 4,000 hits, visitors have viewed 847 individual posts on my blog out of the total of 2,573 posts that are on my site.

Also, Akismet has blocked 13,297 spam comments since I installed it July 20, 2006. That saved me from having to manually delete about 2,600 unwanted comments a month for the past five months. It’s a fantastic addition to Wordpress.