I thought that banning gay marriage was bad - but banning homosexuality all together? Wow.

The Nigerian House of Representatives held public hearings last week on a bill that would criminalize all expressions and forms of homosexuality in Nigeria.

Luckily the UN is the tiniest bit put together and they’re calling it a violation of human rights - which it indisputably is.

Voicing serious concern over a proposed Nigerian bill which would effectively outlaw same-sex relationships, four independent United Nations experts have said it would violate international human rights norms, and urged the Government to withdraw it immediately.

So crazy! I’d elaborate, but right now there is music pounding, bosses yelling, a debate going on and someone calling my name. …I am definitely going home early!

But really - damn right it’s a violation of human rights, but so is not allowing people in love to get married.

Expect some blog updates this week. Not just the little ones that no one notices. Biggies.

Oscars
The Oscars were tonight. Little Miss Sunshine only one two awards, but Pan’s Labyrinth won 3; cinematography, makeup and art direction. I sort of expected that, the movie is quite good. Babel won for the best music, I haven’t actually been able to get past the first 20 minutes because of Brad Pitt. But if the music is really supposed to be that good, perhaps I’ll push on.

What I wasn’t so happy about was Gore winning for best documentary. It figures, really, considering the hype surrounding the movie and the nature of the issue. But in all reality, Jesus Camp was extremely well done portrayed a much more thought provoking subject. Grist has Gore’s acceptance speech - he’s actually quite funny.

Non-Gay
Republic of T has a clip of some ex-ex gays. It’s nice to see the "ex" before the first "ex" because really - there is very little that pisses me off more than foundations and people who attempt to change the sexual orientation of a person. (On that particular site, they don’t even call it being "gay" they refer to it as "SSA" - same sex attraction.)

For a lighter take on the subject, I suggest watching But I’m a Cheerleader.

Funny stuff. The main character goes to "True Directions" where "straight is great!"

Boobs
Bitch Phd links to an absolutely fantastic story. …100 years of tracking breasts. I think my favorite section of it is the 50’s. I’m pretty sure I was born in the wrong era.

Religion
I have a few pretty interesting - aka hilarious - religion stories that should be checked out by all.

• A call for a required bible study maybe that’s not all that crazy - err, wait, read the article - having a required religion course. Now that’s not all that crazy. But a required class strictly for the bible would just be… boring and pointless.
• Homeschooling is sort of ridiculous, it can be alright - when the parents are teaching their children exactly what they would be learning in school - not indoctrinating them with religious rhetoric and beliefs. When ever I watch documentaries on scary catholic universities or children that are really christian - they have always been home schooled. And it’s for that reason, that I think home schooling shouldn’t happen.
• …Sometimes, things make me dizzy… a little sick feeling… light headed… things like this…

  But wise old heads believe that we are going through normal cycles of
  heating and cooling that we have seen over hundreds of millions of
  years as the earth heats and cools when the activity of the sun
  changes. The earth is heated by the sun. The sun is impacted by
  magnetic forces creating outbursts called sunspots, which increase the
  heat it imparts. During the coldest period in the Little Ice Age, which
  ended near the end of the 19th century, sunspots almost completely
  disappeared for 70 years. The earth cooled. Sunspot activity has been
  declining for a number of years and is expected decline by 40 percent
  over the next decade. The world is about to enter a cooling period. Be
  prepared to change your lifestyle.
  
  …Dizzy… sick… light headed… … … …so dizzy and light headed I can’t even begin to describe the stupidity of it all — must go pass out now.

I was going to make these next three stories their own separate posts, but I’ve been blogging for a really long time tonight, and blogging a lot. So I will combine them into one post about teh sex in general.

The first is from Shelley, and it’s a PETA ad that makes absolutely no sense. I’m not saying that usually they DO make sense, just this time it REALLY doesn’t make sense.

Apparently - ignoring the fact that your parents have teh sex is like ignoring the fact that animals can think. …Here’s the difference. Sex… is sex. Animals… get eaten. I’m sorry, but I just don’t understand PETA, they use guilt far too often for my liking. Yeah - I know that my chicken came from a factory farm. That’s really tough shit because a) its already dead and b) it’s an animal. What would PETA like us to do? Set up a nice big chicken society, build schools for the chickens… so that they can go and use their incredibly developed brains to their full potentials?

…And just as a side note, I accept the fact that my parents had sex at least 3 times.

But at least they didn’t have sex with a partner because then they would just be retarded. Yes, retarded. (Via Dogs 2.0)

The same sex relationships, he said, caused mental retardation, depression and high tendency to commit suicide.

Incredible isn’t it? At least in America they’re using the "it’s against the bible" argument rather than the flat out wrong argument of "it makes you retarded." It’s pretty pathetic when the bible argument makes more sense than the alternative argument.

My last sex link is from Sage, and it’s a real good laugh and a real good read about real bad sex. I have some really absolutely hilarious stories about some of the worst sex in the ENTIRE world. One of them… seriously… would beat any other bad sexual experience story that anyone could whip out. Honestly. But I can’t tell it here - because I have some shred of decency left in me.

Instead, I will just say "amen" to a few things that Sage writes…

I mean I couldn’t imagine getting off, then ignoring the person I’m
with when it’s obvious he’s not done. I really couldn’t imagine being
that selfish or that exhausted. If I’m awake enough for me; I think I
can hang in there for you too.

It seems to me intercourse is an evolutionary fuck-up. 

I know an awful lot of women who’ve told me they fake it regularly. 

But if he’s hard, and I’m still dry, I get one of three responses: stop
to wait for me to get myself going, or just keep on pushing until the
lubing starts out of survival instinct. Or hork on me. Lovely.

Oh man, the things I could get into right now…

Last semester, mondays were alright. This semester they are my least favorite day.
2:30 - 3:30 = The worst class… Ever. aka Cultural geography
3:30 - 6:30 = Intro to religion II
7:00 - 8:30 = Gym (which I like)
9:00 - 10:30 = the radio show that I absolutely despise doing
Then I don’t get home till 11 pm, and have class the next morning at 8:30.

It also seems like mr. I-listen-to-crappy-music-too-loudly doesn’t go to class FOREVER on Mondays, so there is no escape from the shitty base. Also, doing my little round of blog checking I came across posts that didn’t fill me with love at all.

Assault cases not being taken seriously, gay teens trying to cope with the world but couldn’t, a feminist "survival guide" but should it really be that hard for us to be feminists? and jackasses attacking Amanda.

Its sad that feminists need to create "survival guides" when really - everyone should just be a feminist - and I mean the equality kind of feminist. But still, its a good post by Sage. As for the jackasses attacking Amanda - seriously, the one that called her ugly should have about 10 feet kicked up his ass for being such a cowardly asshole. And his post on global warming is literally a joke… and he’s just craving for attention - which I am giving to him now, oh shit. Okay, I’ll stop.

But I guess I shouldn’t leave Monday love with a completely horrible tone, there is some good news… I probably won’t die this week. So that’s nice.

*Update - and my blog isn’t working for me. So if you’re reading this, congrads, your internet hates you less than mine hates me.

I had a nap at 8 pm and rolled out of bed at around 11:30, that was probably a bad call because now it’s 4:30 am and I’m still not a bit tired. I have written a 3000 word essay on women and Islam for a class that I had last semester. :S oh dear.  Long story. And I called my friend from camp who I used to be completely and utterly attached too. Her and I lived together for 2 or 3 summers in a row and did everything together. Then we drifted apart a bit - but it turns out she works midnights at some random hotel in London so I called her and we chatted. I miss her. Other than that, I’ve decided pm napping is a pretty bad idea! So here’s the random 10 for this week… followed by a lot of links.

1. Eisley - Beautiful
2. Tanacious D - Keilbasa
3. Bouncing Souls - Kids and Heroes
4. Spearhead - Stay Human
5. The Roots - Rolling With Heat
6. Dirty Pretty Things - Deadwood
7. Pink Floyd - Speak to Me
8. Oscar Peterson - Blues for JR
9. Gin Blossoms - Till I Hear It From You
10. Yeah yeah yeahs - While My Guitar Genty Weeps (yeeea!)

I love ellen. I watched her all last summer, every single day. I would wake up JUST to watch Ellen. I never worked until usully 2 pm… but I would wake up at 10 to watch Ellen. And this clip at Pandagon had me roaring, I was worried I was going to wake up Dan, but man… it is SO funny. I LOVE ellen. Lesbians are the best. And on a more serious note I like the post that preceeded that video - I realize that most people probably read pandagon, so my linking without any personal analysis is pretty pointless… but this is my not caring face — … Here is my personal analysis - listen to the album "Impeach My Bush" by Peaches.

So last week there was the big "blog for choice day" that I didnt blog for until the following day and it wasn’t really a big post on it. Anyway, Jessica points out that they’ve been "outted".. by this site. Honestly, I wish I would have posted on pro-choice day just so that I’d have had a better shot of being listed on the baby killers list. …

Honestly, this whole … using graphic pictures, and telling us that we’re killing babies is seriously getting old. We’re not killing babies. It’s not a baby, its a bunch of cells. Abortions save lives. How about instead you attack the government that actually is killing hundereds of innocent people every day because of the wars they’re starting. Or how about concentrating some energy on aids, or combating epidemics in the world instead of wasting your time preaching your slanderous nonsense to people who have scientific evidence that they’re doing nothing but preventing the growth of cells to better accomodate for a life already in progress.

Gordo’s Thursday links are my absolute favorite post that shows up on his blog every week. Seriously. My favorite. Followed by his video post… because it wastes my time and I like my time being wasted. Anyway… this week he linked to the most adorable videos I have seen in a long time. It makes me miss my invisible friend so much. Lily was the best friend a girl could have had. I wish I had been a little more creative and given her more of a personality and look, but we still had a lot of fun together.

Anthony sent me a post of his on religion  that is WELL worth the time to read. He had me hooked on the first sentence.

For someone who doesn’t believe in God, I think about God a lot.

I just love atheists who are willing to talk about god, and religion without being arrogant and jerkish and intolerante. And in the comments Brent reminds me of why I loved reading his posts so much (so I need to start doing that again, I will blog roll him. he was on there, but when the new one got put up i forgot to make him a button.)

That is NOT a bad thing. Our material universe is unfathomably huge and
indescribably fascinating all on it’s own - without adding magical
fantasy-land fairy tales to it.

And speaking of Brent he has up a video much like Rick Mercer’s Talking to Americans (heart!) it’s not QUITE as funny, but it’s still pretty darn funny. My favorite part is "how many sides does a triangle have…?" "There’s no sides,… one?" Its like that quote from I <3 Huckabees "Have you ever transcended space and time?" "Yes. No. Uh, time, not space… No, I don’t know what you’re talking about."

Also from Gordo, but at Liberal Avanger (just to toss up the links a little bit, he posted it at Appletree too) he did what looks like a good post on Cheney, I didn’t actually read it, I just looked at the pictures. And ps - the bedrocktruth fellar in the comments is a douche and a half.

SO MANY LINKS!

At republic numero uno Adorable Girlfriend has a post up about parenting that is absolutely silly. I’m going to have to go ahead and agree wtih AG that people who make kissing seem like a horrible thing to do … are idiots. And telling boys that girls have cooties? Come on now. Why not teach them about sex? And about gender differences? About what they should and shouldn’t ignore? …But just meanly telling them "no!" … That doesn’t explain anything.

And at the next republic there is a fantastically written post about Africa and homophobia. The best is the "the devil made him do it" part. You know, I always figured my gay friends had been taken over by the devil.

And finally, because I can, I am going to steal this mini meme from Kathy.

This Moment: roaring
Your Shoes: Cons!!
Craving: oranges
The State of Your Home: shit-hole (is that one or two?) … dirty
Annoyed By: chewing
Noise In the Background: soundtrack (for requiem for a dream)
Really Want To: travel
Thinking About: *blushes*
Smelling: moisturizer
Favorite Product In Office Supply Aisle: staplers
Don’t Ever Want To: drown
Your Eye Color: blue
The Weather: …overcast
Have Never Tried: decluttering
Think Everyone Should Try: singing
Last Vacation Destination: Ontario!
The Last Thing You Had to Drink: Water
Your Bad Habit: stumbling
What You’re Going To Do Now: blog

That was suprisingly hard for me to do. I’m one of those people that writes like… a paragraph for questions like that because I think one word answers are so boring.