“The President who made things up.”
Thursday, October 5th, 2006
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george… ma’am…
Thursday, October 5th, 2006
are you like me, do you like do whatever possible at work to put off actually doing work? then i’ve got a website for you. no, not youtube. not ze frank. not even the ever-popular simpleprop. (c’mon, we’ve been writing more lately.)
it’s http://www.80stvthemes.com.
it’s a sometimes fun, sometimes painful trip down memory lane featuring both audio and video clips from 80’s tv show themes and intros. ooh, there are commercials, too! you think you don’t remember every word from the webster theme song? think again. did bill cosby really say “it’s an explosion of wonderfulness in your mouth”? yup.
my top five after the cut.
Faith
Thursday, October 5th, 2006
As most of you have either heard, read, or seen by now, a man in rural Pennsylvania stormed an Amish schoolhouse, took all the girls prisoner, killed 5 of them, seriously injured the rest, before killing himself.
A quote in an article yesterday by one of the victim’s father was:
“We think it was God’s plan and we’re going to have to pick up the pieces and keep going,” he said. “A funeral to us is a much more important thing than the day of birth because we believe in the hereafter. The children are better off than their survivors.”
It’s that last sentence that got to me. What is it like to have a belief system that would have you positively convinced that the dead, children bound and murdered in cold blood, are better off than the survivors? I’m certain this man didn’t mean it in the way that the trauma (physical and mental) of that day would leave scars that would never heal in those survivors. I’m sure he meant that those children are now in heaven, and better off than their families (and the rest of us) stuck down here on earth.
That outlook. That feeling. That… faith… is completely lost on me. Not to be trite, but it just doesn’t compute.
