Fidgety Foots

‘Tis the season - happiness without alcohol or drugs. Warm fuzziness permeates, softening edges(except the mall, where people are angry). Lights and Santa and excited children. Volunteer at church, serve a hot meal, spread the love.

Prove your love -must buy your wife a diamond. Watch e-harmony and nutrisystem on TV, promising to make you prettier so you can find someone to love you. Hate your body, hate your life. ‘Tis the season.

Prep:

• Chop 1 onion, 1 inch of ginger, 3 green chillies, 3 tomatoes
• Sputter mustard seeds in 1 tsp of oil
• Add onion, ginger, chillies, 1/4 tsp turmeric and fry until translucent
• Add chopped tomatoes, salt to taste and cover until cooked
  

• Add boiled dal (abt 2 cups, but I just eyeball it)
• If the tomatoes aren’t sour, add lemon to taste. Garnish with chopped cilantro.

You’ll end up with something like…..

Thassit! Gale, I think you should take the packet of dal back

Cute little Pleo
dropped on his head
smack! drop! choke!
and now he’s dead

Watch the video here. It was disturbing - I had to keep reminding myself that he’s not a real animal.

Desensitization in the virtual world worries me. Blowing up a building, slashing off a limb and watching red blood pump, torturing a robot don’t hurt anyone, but they do turn off an empathic reaction to another being’s pain and grief.

So much of “goodness” is instinctive knee-jerk reaction; if we lose that what will we devolve to?

Sunil’s addendum: So what bothers you more? Explicit violence like above or explicit consensual sex like this? (read full article)

I remember when this controversy cropped up, family-based conservative groups protested vociferously about how these scenes were corrupting their audience. Based on what I have observed, right-wing groups are very good at opposing any material meant for public viewing that may have any sexual connotations, but have no problems with the glut of extremely violent video games/shows that are out there. Explains why you wont find Playboy at your local Walmart, but can pick up the latest version of “Assasins” or a Winchester M70 gun with your six-year old for company!!

A pretty good compilation.

Idea of the year IMHO. A guy has bought an old rundown plane and charges people the equivalent of $4 to sit in the plane  for 2 hours while parked on a tarmac!!