I heard a funny thing today -- second hand, sorry.

Someone said they were super afraid that, if gay people are "allowed" to marry, it will wreck the social fabric of the US (That's NOT the funny part yet so stop laughing).

This same person, however, though it was somehow their fault that their ex spouse was addicted to porn.

What surprises me is that this person doesn't understand the HUGE amounts of money made and laundered by the US porn industry, not to mention the abject devastation pornography, addiction to porn and abuse of women who work in the sex trade cause to families.

Seriously folks, if two people of the same sex decide consciously they want to marry, who cares!? Their relationship doesn't affect you any more than does that of your neighbours, the two fat people who never wash but still have sex, does.

Porn, on the other hand costs absolutely everyone, no matter who.

Don't think it touches you? Got a virus scanner? Popup blocker? Got something that protects your kids from exposure to porn on the internet?

Yah, it touches you.

What's the New Pope Up To?

Interesting article in the local news today, reprinted from TheTelegraph from Rome.

According to the article, the Serengeti sunglass-loving, Prada shoe-wearing, new Pope loves to dress up in fur-lined things and disguises. According to Smirking Chimp, "Even the 78-year-old Pope's normal reading glasses have been identified as Cartier's demi-lune Santos model. "Hmmm.....

Same Pope has been spotted three times in the last few weeks disguised as a priest and sneaking back to his private digs outside the Vatican walls, accompanied by his "One other smart and stylish accessory, his gorgeous [and very young] private secretary, Don Georg Gaenswein", who goes in with him and spends two hours or so hanging out. (photo from Papa Benedetto XVI, site in Italian).

I dunno man, but the last time I checked, guys who wear disguises, fur, Cartier and Prada, and sneak about late at night with other men, are usually up to stuff they're not exactly willing to make public.

It doesn't sound like bible study to me.

Bad, Bad English
This page is a collection of Bad English and poor grammar collected from mostly Canadian media sources. There's more at "Sunday, September 25th, 2005."
From a wire piece that ran in the Calgary Herald: "... a car that had went into the ditch...".

Oh seriously!!! Actually, either "...a car that went into the ditch..." or "... a car that had gone into the ditch...". "Had Went?" Please!

Of the same genre of error: "... I seen..."

Nope. Never. "I saw" or "I have seen." Never, "I seen." Never!

From numerous CBC radio personalities:
"What we're talking about here are issues...".

Nope. Not "are" because the "are" is referring to the "what," not the "issues."

The correct form: "What we're talking about is issues...".

"There's many," or "there's 14 of them."
Nope. "Many" and "14 of them" refer to more than one of something. "There are" many, or 14 of them. There is (or there's) one of them.

Alternatively, however, "There is a lot of them," because a lot is an entity. Like when you're at an auction and the auctioneer says "The starting price for this lot...". He/she is talking about a lot; one lot of something.

You also have to say "There are (there're) lots of them," because now you're referring to several lots, not just one.