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tinhats, theocrats, and tasty titillation
In today's installment of American Tinhats, people are claiming that President Obama's televised address to schoolchildren next week won't be all about staying in school and studying hard - it'll be his method of indoctrinating the wee kiddos into his evil, godless, socialist ways*.

I'm actually having trouble dignifying that with a response that is anything more than LOLWUT.

And in today's installment of Reasons I'm Glad I Left the Catholic Church, the local archbishop has banned a nun from teaching because she supports women's ordination**. The below-the-belt part of me wants to know why women are verboten, but child abusers are a-ok. The more tactful part of me simply wishes to remind the Church that there is a gaping shortage of qualified priests in this country, and maybe allowing the clergy to be married, female, or both would prevent the Church from buckling under its own weight.

(See, back when priestly celibacy was first enforced, giving up sex was actually kinda worth it, as you got a sweet gig in return - an education, a job that didn't involve breaking your back in someone else's fields, a fair bit of money, and power and respect within the community. Now, you get low pay and parishoners who stifle yawns during your sermons, start getting twitchy around kickoff time, and happily ignore doctrine on on the other six days of the week. )

Also, my daughter was baptised by a woman, and has shown no signs of being more demonically inclined than your average toddler. Just sayin'.

Lastly, in today's installment of Badly Phrased Food Packaging:




Please tell me I'm not the only one who finds that hilariously dirty-sounding.


And now, off to bed. The weekend draws closer!


*Source #1.
**=Source #2.