So when I found Molly Muses this morning and this little gem, a good laugh felt very nice.

If masturbation, alcohol, caffeine, premarital sex, smoking, sexy underwear and rated R movies are all verboten (and let’s add married sex in anything but missionary position to that list for many folks), sugar and fat are the last vices left to you. Part of the reason Mormons tend to get so tubby is that you need a lot of rice krispy treats to compensate for all that purity. But it does mean that if you ever get dragged to a Mormon gathering, head straight for the dessert table because wow.

So the doctors tell me that caffeine aggravates a condition that I have. I’m a bit skeptical. They claim to know very little about how to control said condition, but are nevertheless certain that caffeine makes it worse. Add to that that different doctors say different things. Some say I should abstain completely. Others use the words “to excess,” implying that some consumption is OK. Not to mention I don’t feel a whole lot different when I avoid caffeine.

At any rate, I’ve decided I’d stay away from caffeine for a while and see what happens. I used to stop at 7-eleven and get coffee a lot. So today when I stopped at 7-eleven to get gas, my brain said, “Ooo! Coffee!”

Little backstabber.

An new initiative is out there to put an end to IE6: IE6 No More. As much as I’d like to hope it will make a difference, I’m skeptical. For starters, as Mashable points out, many folk still using IE6 are stuck because of IT restrictions. I occasionally do work for one such company. Have you ever worked for a major corporation with a firmly entrenched IT bureaucracy? I have. It takes an act of God to change anything. Wouldn’t surprise me if the aforementioned company has just gotten around to deploying XP SP3.

Then there was Save The Developers initiative that was started late ‘07 or early ‘08. Check out the web site and see how far that went.

It’s too bad. If it were up to developers, we’d have quit supporting IE6 the minute IE7 came out. It’s not though. It’s up the the client. Can you think of a single company willing to risk alienating up to 25% of it’s audience? I thought not.

Personally, I do my best to ignore IE6 unless a client has a specific need. None of my clients are trying to reach anyone in a developing nation, and basically—based on the types of sites I generally work on—if you’re working for a company with a draconian IT department, you probably shouldn’t be on my site while you’re at work anyway.

Rest in peace, Michael.

Lord of the Rings came close, but while I certainly had no objections to seeing it more than once, I wasn’t making plans as such. I do have the extended versions of all three LOTR movies and I’ve watched them multiple times since. Once Star Trek has finished its run I will anxiously await its release on Blu-ray so I can do the same with it. Don’t expect me to be camping out in front of Best Buy so I can get one of the first copies, though. I’m not that bad.

I’m not sure I can even express why I loved it so much. No spoilers here, so don’t panic. (Though I can’t imagine any real Star Trek fan who hasn’t seen it yet.) Maybe it was the perfect balance of old and new: just enough melodrama and swagger to nod to the original series, but not so much that it was obnoxious or hokey; generous amounts of references to past episodes/movies, some which only die hard fans will catch, but some which even my girls recognized; and enough back story to make us make us feel like we’re finally getting to know the characters.

I’m not even really sure why I’ve been a Star Trek fan my whole life. Have you ever gone back to watch the original series? Ouch. Still, something about the story captured the imagination of a young kid and hasn’t let go. I’m sure it appealed to my latent sense of adventure, but I couldn’t tell you why Star Trek—of all the adventure stories out there—is the only one that has stood the test of time.

You have to give the folks at Paramount credit. It takes a lot of foresight and commitment to keep a series like this going. Just look at Star Wars. George killed it. I saw Episode III more out of obligation than anything else. I didn’t even bother with the last animation monstrosity. So hats off to you Paramount. Here’s hoping you can keep it up.

‘This doesn’t have anything to do with Christianity,’ he said in an interview with POLITICO. Rather, he says, it seeks to recognize that the Bible played an integral role in the building of the United States, including providing the basis for our freedom of religion that allows Muslims, Hindus and even atheists to vocalize their own beliefs’ (Yahoo News).

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I’m not sure which is more mind boggling: that this yahoo thinks this is the kind of thing Congress should be spending time on, or that he actually believes that crap.

Once again, folks, the Founding Fathers were NOT Christian. Some were actually quite hostile toward Christianity. You want to know why? Because Christianity has a history of “my way or the highway.” Highway to Heaven that is. The sword usually figured in there somehow.

The Bible was used to justify colonialism. The Bible was used to frame poverty as an issue of moral fiber (or the lack thereof.) The Bible was used to justify slavery. The Bible was used to justify the persecution and slaughter of First Peoples. The Bible was used to justify the persecution and slaughter of early Mormons. The Bible is used to justify the continued marginalization of GLBT citizens and their relationships.

Oh, the Bible has played a large role in the history of our nation. That is true. Not sure that’s something to be proud of, though.

You would have thought conscientious conservatives, eager to avoid further embarrassing gaffs, would do a bit of research before they launched their next revolutionary campaign. Nope.

The National Organization for Marriage, a conservative organization mobilized to spread fear and misinformation about gay marriage, recently announced their URL for their newest campaign, 2 Million For Marriage. Are you ready? …wait for it… 2M4M.org.

As soon as you have picked yourself up off the floor…there’s more. They didn’t even bother to check and see if their domain name was actually available. Can you think of a URL less likely to be taken? Go ahead. Check it out. What’s actually surprising is the web site is actually SFW. (Ain’t I cool? I just used a savvy 21C acronym!). 2M4M.org

Good hell, people. You don’t even have to know about WhoIs services. Haven’t you heard of Google? How about fact checking? That’s not exactly a new 21C concept…well not for most people I guess. Even M4M has been around as long as there have been personal ads (which, believe it or not, is longer than the Internet). Or were you maybe counting on Jesus to step in and save you from even more egg on your face?

It kinda makes you wonder if the top brass at NOM aren’t undercover liberals doing their best to derail the conservative apparatus…’cause…daymn.

(Thanks, Greg. I needed a good laugh today.)