More Southern Poverty Law Center mission creep; suing churches for trying to straighten out gay folks. I'm not sure what this has to do for protecting the little guy; once could see where their core mission of hate-group containment fit their title, since it was poor blacks that the Klan and Nazi types preyed upon, but gays aren't an impoverished group. A put-upon group at times, but not poor.
However, things have morphed where the SPLC is anti-conservative rather than for the little guy. It takes away from the honorable work it's done keeping tabs on hard-core haters and hitting them in the pocketbook via well-placed lawsuits; now, they're seemingly looking for the pocketbooks first and expanding the mission to fit.
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I've passed on commenting on the 2.5 Men story, but this American Spectator piece opts to take both barrels to... Seventh Day Adventism, pulling out the greatest hits from the anti-cult literature on them; that's something of an own-goal to tackle the lesser evil first. The former half-man Angus Jones seems to have had a conversion through a SoCal SDA church; while it's theology leaves a bit to be desired (swapping annihilation for hell and some odd dietary rules alongside the Saturday-sabbath quirk), it's a better place to spend the weekend than the local bar.
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Computer software is getting scary at times. The other day, someone Googled here under "FSM Save the Queen"; Google figured out on its own to translate the acronym to Flying Spaghetti Monster and found an old post of mine.
On a comparable vein, Typepad now has a link-generator that provides possible links for you based on your post. For instance, as I type this part, it gives me a Wikipedia link for FSM, which I just used above. What's creepier is that it's offering a Hulu link to 2.5 Men, translating the decimal appropriately; that's one Siri-ous algorithm. Thanks, but I'll pass, since I kinda agree with Jones' rant of the week.
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