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A evangelical rap performance promoting the "Christian side hug." If you, like me, weren't aware what a "Christian side hug" is, it's an effort by evangelical leaders in some organizations to get teens to hug eachother side by side -- apparently because full frontal clothed contact is the work of the devil and automatically leads to such evils like the continuation of our species.
Remember, your day could always be worse:
" A U.S. man given up for adoption at birth has spoken of his anguish at discovering that his long-lost father is notorious serial killer Charles Manson.Food for nature/nurture debate.Matthew Roberts said: 'It was like finding out your father is Hitler'.
The 41-year-old DJ made the discovery after tracing his mother and learning she had been raped by Manson during a drug-fuelled orgy nine months before he was born in 1968.
'I'm a peaceful person - trapped in the face of a monster.'
He added: 'My hero is Gandhi. I'm an extremely non-violent, peaceful person and a vegetarian.
'I don't even kill bugs,' he told The Sun.
via Wooster
I love this shit. And by love I mean hate. From Democracy Now:
"Well, it’s bizarre, but the US has to maintain, obviously, all these bases, these forward operating bases and combat outposts throughout Afghanistan. They have to supply them. The way they supply them is trucking convoys, civilian trucking convoys. They call it “Host Nation Trucking,” and what they mean is that Afghan-owned trucks and Afghan drivers drive everything. They drive all the supplies, the guns, the MRAPs, the ammunition. Just everything needs to get to these—every part of Afghanistan. And they’ve issued these large contracts, but they don’t protect the convoys. By definition, these convoys are driving through some very tough terrain, controlled by warlords, by the Taliban, by insurgents.We're essentially funding the very people fighting us in a bizarre sisyphusian, pseudo-patriotic clusterfuck. We're like the GM of world domination, but twice as incompetent.And what they’ve ended up doing—and this is apparently unanimous, with some small exceptions—is the security companies reach arrangements with the local Taliban, the local warlords and various insiders to pay them off for protection. It’s very much like an extortion racket and very much like a protection racket, and it amounts to huge amounts of money. Some say ten percent, some say far more than ten percent, of the convoys. Some say that most of the security budgets are going towards these payments to the Taliban and to the tribal leaders and the warlords. The fact is the US often doesn’t even know who they’re paying off. These contractors don’t necessarily know who they’re paying off. They just know they’re bad guys. So they’ve ended up with this bizarre situation, and there’s nothing they can really do about it."