08:55 – Last night I started reading Last Light by Terri Blackstock, Book One in the Restoration series. Ugh. Turns out it’s a fundie religious PA book. Religious porn like this needs to have a prominent label to warn normal people not to bother even picking it up. I’d never heard of the author, which surprised me since she was listed as a NYT Bestseller who’d sold 6 million copies of her books. Turns out that’s because she’s a “Christian author”, and about 5,999,999 of those copies were purchased by fundies. I’m surprised Amazon didn’t flag this title as “WARNING! OFFENSIVE RELIGIOUS CONTENT!”
In fact, all novels with religious content need to have appropriate warning flags. They already do it for inoffensive stuff like sex, describing them as “adult novels”. Why shouldn’t they also do it for truly offensive stuff like fundie propaganda? In particular, garbage books like this that feature full frontal religion should be kept segregated from stuff that normal people read. Books with no religious content at all could be given a G rating; ones with minor religious content like people attending church or praying occasionally could be given a PG or PG-13; ones where religion is a significant part of the book an R; and fundie garbage like this should be given an X and kept away from impressionable young people.
16:23 – Here’s a result they didn’t want to see. The hard left MSNBC was foolish enough to run a poll on carrying guns. The choices were:
1. Yes! The Second Amendment guarantees it.
2. No, it’s too dangerous.
3. Only for self defense.
Obviously, choices 1 and 3 were intended to split the pro-gun vote and allow the No vote to win. But things didn’t work out quite that way. When I checked a moment ago, #1 was far in the lead with 219K votes (91%), #2 was a far-distant second with 12K votes (5%), and the red-herring #3 came in last at about 9K votes (4%). I went ahead and grabbed a screen shot, because you can be sure this one will disappear into the bit bucket. It’s what MSM does.
