Let me tell you a little something about doing routine backups: no matter how l33t you think you are, not saving your shit is going to catch up to you. About two weeks ago I attempted to install an update to Movable Type, the publishing system that I use for this site. Well before I knew it the contents my the database was gone and, well… let’s just say I cried myself to sleep that night. The site is back up now, but I’ll be working on copying the articles over from the HTML files I salvaged for the next few days.

On a different note, Pat Robertson is a colossal dick. I’ve been watching the 700 Club from time to time lately; not because I’m a right-wing conservative Christian nut-job, but because I find their unwaivering hipocrasy hilarious. I watched an episode a few days ago in which Pat’s top story was about Jesus being “edited out” of the holidays. From the perspective of one who hates political correctness I had to agree with them.

And I would’ve kept agreeing with them if they had left it at “it’s not right to infringe on our right to celebrate Christmas in a Christian manner.” Instead Pat, as usual, mounted his high moral horse and in more drawn out verbage proclaimed that celebrating the holidays in any way but his own is, well… wrong. This quote, taken directly from Pat Robertson on the December 23 episode of The 700 Club, says it all:

“And Kwanza isn’t even a real holiday! It’s something made up by a bunch of long haired hippy types on the west coast!”

Wow, one just can’t help but want to convert to Christianity with people like him riding our asses! There is only one man who has come close to converting me, and he died September 12, 2003. We don’t need men like Pat Robertson who, in between sales pitches for their latest compilation of bigoted ultra-conservitive propoganda, condemn us because we’re not like him. Our country isn’t degenerating into a cesspool of immorality because there aren’t enough people telling us our lifestyles are wrong. It’s happening because we have no heroes left. No one wants to be a role model; no one wants to stand up and say what’s right.

That’s why there ought to be a Man in Black.