Ohio Election Workers Accused of Fudging ’04 Recount

Workers accused of fudging ’04 recount

Wow.  Remember that recount which was demanded by the Green and Libertarian party candidates?  Which they were granted, and it didn’t change anything?

It was apparently fake.  Instead of randomly selecting counties for hand recounts to check whether complete hand recounts were necessary, they did precounts and excluded any county which would have triggered a complete hand recount.  In essence they guaranteed that no hand recount would happen.  And now three of them have been indicted for it.

Via reddit.

(As I’ve mentioned before, I’m torn on the issue of whether I wish Kerry would have won, because if he had, all the rotten stuff that’s happening now as a result of Bush’s mistakes would be happening on Kerry’s watch, and Bush’s supporters would be all “See?  If we’d kept Bush this would all have been fine!” — but then, I guess we might not have all this illegal NSA wiretapping, a right-wing-stacked SCOTUS, etc, etc.  It’s a tough call.)

Boing Boing: Why is it OK to show a man’s breasts on TV? asks Bennett Haselton

Boing Boing: Why is it OK to show a man’s breasts on TV? asks Bennett Haselton

I link this mainly in order to share the following anecdote.

I was watching some plastic surgery show on, I think, the Discovery Health channel, last week.
The particular operation they were showing was breast implants for a male-to-female transsexual.

During the beginning of the operation they showed his chest, nipples and all, and the doctor commented on how tricky it was to do the by-the-nipple style of incision on his small nipples.  They showed the incision being made and all.  But once the implants were in, they blurred out — not the new breasts, but the nipples.  The same exact nipples which were situated moments ago on a flat chest, were now blurred out because they were now resting on womanly breasts.

It really summed up the absurdity of it all.

‘Satanic’ art in Catholic Church exposed

WorldNetDaily: ‘Satanic’ art in Catholic Church exposed

“Artists from DaVinci to Botticelli have embedded subliminal images into their art for centuries,” said Calace. “In this case we found penises on crucifixes, anarchy symbols, swastikas, demonic faces and in modern works even the word ‘sex’ encrypted into the images. The works in question include modern artists’ work currently on the covers of missalettes and hymnals that at this very moment sit in the pews of churches throughout the U.S. and on children’s religious teaching aids.”Calace said, “‘Rape of the Soul’ was created to heal the many that have suffered from these uninvited violations.”

You know how something can be so deeply deranged that it is just awesome? This is like that. What’s good for rock music and soft drink ads is good for centuries of devotional artwork!

I think that whoever named this “Rape of the Soul” should get some kind of “completely inappropriate use of a loaded word” award.  You know, like if somebody were to refer to a blight on grapefruit as a “Citrus Holocaust.”

via various parts of the blogosphere.

I almost want to see this, except for the fact that I would never get those hours of my life back.