Category Archives: Just 'cause it's funny

“Wow! Wow! This is like the night Hillary won the New Hampshire primary!”

I’ve never been one to pass up a cheap laugh:

I will have to say, however, that the scene was not quite as hot as I’d hoped.

(Thanks, Joe!)

“Never be ashamed to say what you’re not ashamed to think.”

Samuel Clemens is one of my greatest heroes. I love his works, I admire the man for his stances, and I laugh at how often he deflated the self-important and lampooned the pompous.

Here is one of my favorite quotes of Mr. Twain’s, from the first volume of his Autobiography, published 100 years after his death (finally!):

“There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing, and predatory as it is–in our country particularly and in all other Christian countries in a somewhat modified degree–it is still a hundred times better than the Christianity of the Bible, with its prodigious crime–the invention of Hell. Measured by our Christianity of to-day, bad as it is, hypocritical as it is, empty and hollow as it is, neither the Deity nor his Son is a Christian, nor qualified for that moderately high place. Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilled.”

(The format of his official autobiography is a rambling collection of anecdotes and observations — my favorite form of reading.)

“Mommy, why does Firefox always go to this ‘cleen-yur-regerstee’ page?”

So, you’re cruising down the internet freeway, and you’ve been reading funny comics, catching up on email, copying down recipes for tomorrow night’s dinner, and (quietly, while the kids are at the movie theatre) watch a little soft-core porn.

You know that porn sites are just rife with viruses and malware and such. So you’re careful about what you click on.

Just before the kids get home you clear your browser history (you’ve learned how to do that after little Jimmy wanted to know about the funny “toy site” that Mommy had visited — “Mom, those toys look boring!”), and you go to a safe, family-friendly religious site and leave the browser open.

The next morning, you find that your machine has malware/trojans/viruses/generallybadbadsoftware loaded onto it.

Welcome to the real world.