Don’t Smoke and Drive

Right next to banning smoking in private residences, we have banning smoking in private vehicles:

An anti-tobacco coalition of 37 health and welfare groups is calling on the NSW [New South Wales] Government to ban smoking in cars carrying children… Anti-smoking coalition spokeswoman Anne Jones said independent research showed smoking in cars not only placed children at risk of secondhand smoke but increased the risk of accident and fire.

Thank the heavens for these dogooders. Let’s all give them a hand, or maybe just a finger. More of the same nanny state bullshit that seeks to guide you through life from cradle to grave all couched in the illogical, emotional pablum that is “for the children.”

Well, in the immortal words of George Carlin: “Fuck the children.”

Not be outdone by their Kiwi cousins, the Canucks are the first to ban smoking in cars:

Starting next June, if you’re in a car in Wolfville with a child and you light up, you’re in trouble. This small Nova Scotia town of 3,600 made history Monday night when it became the first in the country to ban smoking in vehicles if there’s a child on board.

Can Granny Get a Drink?

I think we’ve been here before.

No ID grandmother refused alcohol

Tina MacNaughton-Jones, 47, of Worthing, Sussex, was told she could not buy wine at the town’s Waitrose because she could not prove her age. Her 22-year-old daughter, who had ID, offered to buy the wine but was refused because she might “give it to her”. Waitrose said a member of staff had been a “little overzealous”.

A little overzealous? No shit sherlock. Overzealous doesn’t even begin to describe this stupidity. Not only would they not sell the wine to the grandma, they wouldn’t sell it to her of age daughter, because she might give the wine to her mother. Here’s a clue numbnuts: if the daughter is old enough to buy, then I bet the mom is too.

XXXclaiming the Good News

When I saw this I was positively tickled: “Profile: Craig Gross, fighting pornography”

Gross, 31, is The Porn Pastor. He co-founded xxxchurch.com, a 5-year-old online ministry dedicated to helping people who struggle with pornography.

What tickles me is that there is a ministry dedicated solely to porn addiction. It’s basically AA for pornaholics. You even get an accountabilibuddy:

His site offers software that alerts an “accountability” friend if you view online porn.

Haha. Now you have to be accountabilibuddiable, or else you and your porn addicted friend might have problems. Of course, you could use this tool to let you know if he/she is looking at any good porn sites, which is actually a good idea.

They certainly have a dread of porn though, because his wife makes people shorten the word to ‘P’. Can it be that bad of a word? The P-word.

Looking around the website, I found a section on masturbation in which they say masturbation is bad, but give no real reference as to why, other than “when you jack it, god will kill kittens.” Very moving, and certainly addresses the issue in “non threatening way.” Yeah right, because talking about the topic is so threatening to begin with that you have to bring in killing kittens. The typical scriptual reference for the moral wrong of masturbation is the sin of Onan (Genesis 38:1-30):

The fixation of modern Christianity with masturbation is because they (perhaps) do not understand the laws involved and prefer to ignore, or trivialise, the issues. This appears to be done so that people are deceived regarding the real prohibitions. Masturbation is irregular in that the individual is open to sin at the higher levels that Christ laid on the elect in thought (e.g. Mat. 5:28). There is, however, no legislation concerning the matter.

This is what xxxchurch.com says:

We have had literally thousands of emails about this particular issue. We have heard all the scenarios. “Well if I think about fruit while I’m masturbating, then that is not sin.” Well isn’t that clever. Or…”If I’m giving glory to the Lord while I’m doing it, then that can’t be wrong.” Hmmm. Why don’t we just make that part of our Sunday morning services then? We have heard all the Pro-Masturbation Christian arguments and I wonder if these people are really dealing in reality. It’s all very intellectual and quite scholarly, but we still don’t get it. Sorry.

Masters of logic they are! And speaking of masturbtion and other prohibited acts in Bible, I notice the article says Mr. Gross is adorned with earrings. Isn’t that scripturally prohibited?

Now obviously there are various interpretations of these laws and rules, which should make Mr. Gross think before he casually dismisses other arguments as crazy.