Mac Justice: The Blog
You’ve said that you’re beyond atheism. What does that mean?
I have trouble believing that other people believe. (Laughs.)
You think they’re lying?
I’m sure they’re not lying. Their belief may be genuine. But it’s like arguing that fairies are coming out of my toaster in the middle of the night. You can’t prove to me that there aren’t fairies in my toaster, but that doesn’t mean you should take me seriously. What I have a problem with is not so much religion or god, but faith. When you say you believe something in your heart and therefore you can act on it, you have completely justified the 9/11 bombers. You have justified Charlie Manson. If it’s true for you, why isn’t it true for them? Why are you different? If you say “I believe there’s an all-powerful force of love in the universe that connects us all, and I have no evidence of that but I believe it in my heart,” then it’s perfectly okay to believe in your heart that Sharon Tate deserves to die. It’s perfectly okay to believe in your heart that you need to fly planes into buildings for Allah.
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What a great comic. What a great company. I plan on getting my ass shot up by grizzled veterans in my namby-pamby white earbuds this afternoon.
Guys it’s okay to call football soccer. We’re not the only country that doesn’t call it football. Just call it what you call it and don’t make that big a deal about it.
I like Mexico and RSA so much I want them both to get three points but a draw is fine.
We call it what we call it. More people in this world call them lifts and lorries and petrol and boots and biscuits and so on, but that doesn’t mean we have to lift our linguistic pinky and accede to the socialist foreigners. We’ll beat them at soccer, too.
(via etinarcadia)
1. When the song ‘Pony’ by Ginuwine is played for you, you must stop what you’re doing and dance.
2. If you have a phone or mp3 player with the song ‘Pony’ by Ginuwine on it on your person, you can block the ponying, and the original pony-er must then dance.
This is so much more awesome than bros icing bros.
Great single page of text breakdown of all the teams in the Cup, and their schedules.
My favorite part might be the team slogans. They include the slightly incomprehensible but exuberant: “Greece is everywhere!” and Nigeria’s “Super Eagles super fan united we stand”. North Korea keeps expectations reasonable with “1966 again! Victory for DPR of Korea!”, 1966 being the year they reached the quarter-finals. There’s a lot of talk about hopes and dreams and roads and destiny, all very generically Olympian. Serbia (“Play with the heart, lead with a smile!”) and New Zealand (“Kickin’ it Kiwi style”) have the best attitudes. I like to imagine that in their native tongues, each is as cliche-ridden as USA’s “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Victory!”
