Today's outrage, or What world do you live in?

[kinzel]

I thought, once upon a time, while I was growing up, that science was bringing a clearer and more accurate understanding of the world -- which would also improve lives. That's what I thought.

And so within recent memory not only do the likes of Pat Robertson prey on the ignorant via hurricane control,

but:

Magical properties of some people's bodies make them worth using as potions:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/11/29/tanzania.albinos/index.html

Sin causes earthquakes:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8384827.stm

And sustainable lifestyles are a threat to us all ...

"My friends, we are now facing a Gay-Green threat: Homosexual activists who also seek to limit carbon emissions and promote recycling, as well as a sustainable lifestyle! ..."

http://www.wittenburgdoor.com/green-homosexuals,-newest-threat-american-families

Some days, coffee is not enough to wash away the world.

Comments

[otaku-tetsuko.livejournal.com]

This is one (relatively small) drawback of the Internet - people read things basically out of content and so miss information, like the fact that MOST of the Wittenberg Door (originally at least a paper magazine - Larry's been a subscriber for years) is either satire or commentary on how silly the rest of the world is being - like the Onion, you are supposed to know that they are written usually to express an extremely opposite opinion.

But suppose you just get the link and aren't familiar with the publication? Then you have to hunt harder for the disclaimers than most people (already accustomed to skimming over inconsequentials like advertisements) miss in the fine print, as it were.

Sigh. Alas! The internet is not, in fact, perfect either....remember when the distortions had to be sent by fax and chain letters? I actually thought it was a pretty funny article, but then I already knew from the rest of the posts that it was a satire...

[otaku-tetsuko.livejournal.com]

PS - this link is to their "who we are" article, and is also pretty darn funny. http://www.wittenburgdoor.com/about-us