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‘Tis the Season for Arguing Over Religious Tolerance

Every year,around this time, the argument over Christmas goes on. And every year it’s the same arguments: “There’s a war on Christmas!” and “The Christians are hogging all the holiday cheer!”. And every year the argument ends after Christmas and then all we care about is that you take down your decorations before Valentine’s Day. A Denver Post commenter pretty much nailed my attitude about this pointless arguing with this glorious rant (Her rant is condescending and rude to BOTH sides of the argument so if you lay heavily on either side, you’ll probably be offended):

Okay folks, this is getting a little silly. In the red corner we have the right wingers kvetching about the death of Christian morals and how those evil pinko commie socialist libs want the world to be PC and abolish God. In the blue corner we have a bunch of lefties kvetching about separation of church and state and the celebrating of a holiday that marks the supposed birthday of an ancient zombie. Could we please lighten up a little bit folks? It’s just a holiday. Can we all just enjoy some good food and our new Xboxes in peace? Atheists, leave the Christians alone. They aren’t holding a gun to your head telling you to accept Christ as your personal savior and I know you’re all capable of ignoring the evangelists with those great big scientific brains of yours. I promise Zombie Jesus is not trying to eat them. Christians, leave the Atheists alone. They aren’t holding a gun to your head demanding you say God doesn’t exist and I know you’re fully capable of cracking open your bible to a favorite passage and reading to ignore them. I promise Zombie Charles Darwin is not going to try to crack your cranium with a fossil to get at your brains.

Here’s the link to the argument that inspired this: Article Discussion: Larimer Sheriff touts politically incorrect tree-trimming party

How to Waste Time on the Interwebs

I haven’t posted much to my blogs lately. I’d like to say it’s been because I’ve been really busy and productive and such, but that would be a lie. Truth is, I spend most of my time in front of my computer wasting it. Here’s some of my all time best ways I’ve found to waste time on the interwebs:

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1. StumbleUpon, http://www.stumbleupon.com – Have you ever tried something only to have it steal an entire day from you because you keep saying “Just one more time”? This genius of a toolbar/website lets you set up your interests, then you click one simple “Stumble” button that leads you to new and different sites that you’ll probably find entertaining until you realize you’re thirsty because you’ve just spent 5 straight hours saying “Just one more time”.

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2. Yahoo! Games, http://games.yahoo.com/free-games - Do you like simple games that require no installation and no commitments of any kind? Did you like Bejeweled? Do you want to play 50 variations of it? Since this is the only site with games that’s not blocked at work, this site has stolen tons of hours from me in the past couple of months.

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3. Google Reader, http://www.google.com/reader - “But wait! Google Reader is a useful tool of internet news-gathering!”, you’re tempted to say. I agree with you, but like with any social internet tool it has the ability to suck you dry of useful time. I currently subscribe to 90 blogs. Most of them update at least once a day. I need to weed it down some because it’s not nearly as useful as it should be.

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4. The Comments Section of a News Site (ie. http://www.denverpost.com) – Imagine being in a room with a rabid Neo-Conservative, an anarchist, a bible-thumper, a tree-hugger, an Obama worshipper, a Greenpeace activist, a racist, and a Glenn Beck wannabe. Now imagine someone is asking for all their opinions on a new story at once and you can hear everyone’s opinion. Generalities are made. Rude nicknames are thrown around. Arguing ensues. Sometimes, though rarely, something intelligent is said. Good fun! (If you want to find me on there, my screen name is ScottP.)

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5. LOLcats http://icanhascheezburger.com – Some things are tailor made to waste your time, like the slinky. These cute, funny pictures are the furry slinkies of the interwebs. If you don’t know what a LOLcat is, I’ll explain:

LOL = Laugh Out Loud.
Cat = cat.

So the whole point of the site and the pictures is to laugh at cats. Pointless? Yep. Entertaining? Oh yeah!