Archive for October 11th, 2009
Just remembered I forgot to comment on the recent capture in Switzerland of notorious international fugitive and child rapist Roman Polanski, who apparently also has directed a number of quite good movie-films. Lessons Polanski should learn from this affair: Don’t rape children. Don’t skip bail. Don’t plead guilty if you aren’t willing to do the max. DON’T RAPE CHILDREN!
I just saw this ad on telly: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, in conjunction with the Ad Council (both organizations about which I have nothing positive to say), has funded and produced an advertisement featuring religious figures endorsing and promoting government programs. No mention of the featured anthropomorphic vegetables’ religious affiliation is mentioned. Something about using explicitly religious characters to encourage children to follow government health advice strikes me as something less than neutral to religion, despite the secular purpose. But because promoting the health of children is a “legitimate secular purpose”, this kind of thing doesn’t violate the [ . . . ]
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