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OK, this is just weird. And I mean W-E-I-R-D.

A professor at a New York University has undergone the procedure of having a small camera implanted on the back of his head. The camera will remain there for a year, recording his activities (well, the end of them) at 1 minute intervals, every day. The stunt, named “The 3rd I,” is part of an art exhibit sponsored by a museum in Qatar. It’s slated for release on December 30, and is part of a larger exhibition called “Told/Untold/Retold.”

The professor, named Wafaa Bilal, says that this project will raise important “social, aesthetic, political, technological, and artistic questions.”

Hey Wacky Professor, I’ve got some news for you: You don’t need a camera for that! It’s called LIFE!!!!!

What the heck is stuff like this doing in “art”?! A camera glued to the back of a guy’s head for a year?! That will raise some important questions?! Are these people so distant from everyday life that they have no clue as to what goes on around them? They must record a guy’s everyday life to raise “important questions”?!

I’ve got a novel idea– how about these brainiacs do something IMPORTANT in life, like solving some of the problems of this world! You know, like creating a QUIET vacuum cleaner?! How about ways to deter tailgaters? Or maybe inventing improved ways to nanocleanse?!

*mutter mutter* Cameras on the back of heads, sheesh!

I personally think these guys are jealous of their moms….

You know that old adage “Don’t believe everything you read”? Well, you’d better not believe images, either! If you think all those eye-popping celebrities are really and truly eye-popping, I have a real nice bridge to sell you…. no, it’s not just those super anti wrinkle eye cream applications making those celebrities look like a billion bucks…

Watch this enlightening movie.

I have long lamented our society’s digression into an image-based culture. Images can be manipulated, and are. I think it’s atrocious that our entire culture glamorizes celebrities and the “perfect” appearance, and exerts so much pressure (especially on young American girls) to look perfect. Those things are fading, so temporal. Moreover, there is no “perfect” appearance. Girls and boys– be yourselves! Be the beautiful person that God made you to be! Our sex-obsessed culture is crap, and obviously very deceptive.

Traveling the airlines for Christmas holidays? Think again. According to this story, you will be forced to undergo the naked-body-scanner, a groping, or be forced to be inspected and pay a fine if you refuse.

WoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooW! Unbelievable!

So, if you decide to even STEP IN the airport to fly, you will be forced to undergo a screening. And if you decide you’d rather not and try to leave, you will undergo a questioning and/or screening. Or pay a fine of $11,000.

WooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooW!

How can Americans just swallow this?

I’d rather stay at home. No way am I going to ruin my holidays by receiving gropings by government thugs. People are actually submitting to this??

Due to massive numbers of Americans clinging to their purses this holiday season, looks like the shop-a-holic can nab some pretty good deals. Generous merchants are desperate to sell their goods in a shaky economy. After sweating it out all year, they must be pretty happy when Thanksgiving and Christmas rolls around.

I greatly dislike the commercialization of the holidays. I dislike Black Friday very much because it takes emphasis off Thanksgiving Day. It’s like Thanksgiving Day is just a day that gets in the way of the REALLY big American holiday, Black Friday. Too bad. Thanksgiving is a very worthy holiday. It deserves our honor.

On the other hand, I do like Cyber Monday much more than Black Friday, because I don’t have to mingle with crowds of screaming, snotty-nosed children and their spendthrift parents. Whoever invented Cyber Monday was a genius. I can shop from my cozy armchair. No longer do I have to rub elbows with the masses, nor douse in antiseptic Lysol solution when I come home. And this shopping day does not encroach on Thanksgiving Day.

So what are you doing next weekend? Ignoring Thanksgiving so you can be a little bacchanalian ingrate, or giving thanks for all the good things in your life?
Happy holidays.

It’s the cover of NewsWeak. Yikes! What happened to all the libs’ fears of a theocracy, huh? They don’t seem to have a problem with it as long as their god is in charge. It’s getting pretty creepy out there, folks! In case you need a visual representation, look at this:

Oh, all an accident?

I think not.

That’s Shiva the Destroyer doing his/her dance of death. WEIRD.

I don’t like stuff like that, any kind of underhanded symbolism and stuff– the mobius, the ram head, star in a circle, whatever. It’s all weird, really creepy and superstitious.

There’s been lots of flack about the TSA screening techniques, for good reason. As heinous as the screenings are, I do wonder why the media is giving this situation all their hype. It makes me wonder what’s REALLY going on, what really important news is being concealed? Hmm.

Anyway, looks like the government is doing everything it can to discourage people from opting out of the body scanners. Making lots and lots of people go through those backscatter machines is REALLY important to SOMEBODY out there. Makes me wonder if the reason they’re doing that is to test it out to improve the technology. Won’t be the first time we peons are the guinea pigs… Therefore the Gubmnt punishes folks who opt out, and forces folks to accept these “love pats” sessions, as that idiot Senator McCaskill called them.

The TSA says the whole reason for the body scanners and “love pats” is because some bombs are not constructed of metal– they may be plastic and therefore undetectable by the metal detectors.

Well, Jim Bohannon had a BRILLIANT IDEA. BRILLIANT. (In case you don’t know Jim Bohannon, see here). He had this great idea of ditching those body scanners and building big boxes that detonate bombs. Everyone wanting to board a plane would have to stand in the box first. If they were hiding a bomb on their person, the detonator would set off their hidden bomb, and they’d explode!

Talk about a crime deterrent!! I love the idea! It’s the best idea anyone has ever had since hoodia diet pills! It’s brilliant!!! It’s very do-able, too. I’m sure scientists could come up with a protoype in a couple of months!

What do you think?