Homosexuals In Ghana Go To Jail

Wow, I’m not entirely sure how this didn’t cross my path earlier, and I’m a little surprised at how quiet it has been on this topic, but I just saw this post on Blag Hag about Ghana’s Western Region Minister Paul Evans Aidoo’s recent order to immediately arrest all homosexuals. And of course, it’s a Jesus thing.

The law vioation they are apparantly being arrested for is called Unnatural Canal Knowledge. You know, because being gay doesn’t ever happen in nature.

One of the major groups involved in the events that led up to this decree is the Christian Council of Ghana, who were allegedly urging Ghanaians “not to vote for any politician who belies in the rights of homosexuals”, which conflicts with their recent project in partnership with the World Association for Christian Communication. That’s some super good destigmatizing there, folks.

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FSM Church Vandalism Sends the Wrong Message

It seems that some atheists have taken their love of the FSM one step too far.

For anyone who isn’t aware, the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is a parody religion that has gained a strong following within the humanist/atheist/freethinking movement. I’m not going to review it’s history or “doctrine” here … a quick perusal of their site will fill you in on why so many of us seek the touch of His Noodly Appendage. I even have a Flying Spaghetti Monster emblem displayed proudly on my cubicle at work.

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My 2 Pence on Christmas

Jim’s post on the War on Christmas warmed the cockles of my heart and filled me with mirth, so I thought I’d weigh in with my thoughts on Christmas.

The discussion around how the infidels are dismantling Christmas has been a hot topic in lately. The mass spam-mail thats been floating around for a few years now … the one about how Ben Stein despises the un-Christifing of Christmas … has people all up in a tiffy. A team lead sent it around with her own thoughts about how the infidels are destroying her holiday and how baby Jesus is very sad.

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The Plan For Ending AIDS In Africa

Okay, admittedly, that’s kind of a misnomer. There isn’t one. At least not one that presently shows any real reason to believe it would work. In order to truly end the threat of AIDS as a widespread pandemic both in Africa and the rest of the world, we need to do three things:
 
1. Make people aware of the fact that condoms are just good.

Okay, it’s really just one thing. I admit it, but bullet points usually look nicer if you have three or more things in the list. In order to make that one point stick, we need to do three things:
 
1. Slap the mouth of any religious zealot who insists that condoms promote AIDS, that God hates you if you have sex, or that condoms are not a viable preventative for AIDS transmission.

Again, the bullet point list with only one bullet. It’s a sign of lazy writing, isn’t it?

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Prick-Free Penetration for Pharmaceuticals

Science is routinely criticized for spending billions of dollars on useless and boring things like quantum string theory research or the mundane discovery of hundreds of planets in other solar systems, while neglecting to create anything useful.

Well criticize this, critics!

Looks like a team of researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University have joined forces like Voltron to create something we can all get really excited about. The Dissolvable Vaccine Delivery Patch!

My lack of techno-naming creativity aside, there is some amazing science behind this thing. It’s even touted as being a more effective method of delivery than your traditional “sharp-pointy-object-jabbing-into-muscle” method!  This short article explains it nicely ..

So, in the very near future you’ll go into the doctor to do your herd-immunity duty and instead of getting a round of vaccination shots, she’ll just slap a patch on your arm (or your ass, preferably?) and send you out the door. Brilliant. Even the staunchest anti-vaxxer can get behind that.

The future is now, people.

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…And While I’m Poking The Hornet’s Nest…

 See that woman to the left of these words? That’s Dr. Hawa Abdi. She’s a remarkable woman who lives in Somalia, is a practicing gynecologist, and runs a hospital she started with a single room that now has 400 beds full of people whose sickness and suffering are made better by her efforts. By all accounts, she’s a truly great and inspiring woman.

And this, dear readers, is the part in any writing where the hammer falls. I’ve set you up good, with the knowledge that this is a great woman who makes lives better for so many people. Obviously, there’s a huge but just around the corner.

But…

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