You know that saying where young girls are “sugar and spice and everything nice?”

Complete load of crap.

Of course I’ve known this to be true ever since my 12 year old bootingtocks would get chased home by a gang of cheerleaders each and every day after school. Let me tell you something, there’s a reason some girls like to grow their fingernails long, and it has nothing whatsoever to do with cosmetics.

Though I have to admit, I’ve never gone up against the kind of ferocity such as what happened there in Florida (it’s always Florida too.) It wasn’t just watching this poor girl getting beat down by a mob of flip-flop wearing teens that I found so disturbing (along with the painful memories it brought back), but just how coldly calculated it all was. They basically kidnapped her, brought her to the house, then had a throwdown while look-outs were stationed outside to make sure no one interrupted the beating.

If you ask me, that seems to be an appropriate rite of passage a teenage girl might take if she wanted to be a divorce attorney someday, except that the morons here videotaped the whole thing and were actually planning to upload the vid to YouTube. No wonder people refer to the state as Floriduuuuuuh.

All because somebody supposedly dissed somebody else on a MySpace page (of course.)

Oh, by the way, if you’re reading this and you happen to have a MySpace page, you suck and I hate you. I don’t care if I don’t know anything else about you, I hate you, hate you, hate you, even if you gave me a million dollars I’d still hate you (I’d keep the money though.)

Giants Beat Packers in OT: Advance to Super Bowl!

Man, what a ride!!!

What happened to the Giants that gave up 90 points to Dallas AND the Packers the beginning of the season? The Giants that came oh so close to falling apart at the seams, with more holes in their defense than swiss cheese? The Giants team that became so unlovable not even their fans could stand them?

All of a sudden they win 6 straight, then 2007 becomes 2008 and they take the Patriots to the brink, beat the Bucs, beat the Cowboys in Dallas, and now the Pack on their own frozen turf???

Who ARE these guys????

There’s nothing quite as hilarious as watching a bunch of Cowgirls fans bawling their eyes out over their upset loss to the Giants, even if it is in jest:

I don’t expect that the Giants will be able to pull off another upset victory against Green Bay next week, but fortunately I happen to like the Packers, and after the kind of year Brett Favre’s had, the man has earned it.

Well this is an interesting concept: a new media network called ChatterJam.com is offering word of mouth services for companies who want to sell goods to a Christian demographic, and who are also looking for valuable feedback on their products. Members of ChatterJam (called Jammers) would receive and test sample products before they are released to the general public, then offer up their impressions and opinions. Membership is free too.

It sounds like fun, and if anything it would give Christians a chance to positively influence and promote faith based markets. And not a moment too soon, since heaven knows any new Christian dating site that gets launched in the future would certainly benefit from my input.

Creation Museum Revives Christian Debates Over Earth’s Evolution | Christianpost.com

The $27 million Creation Museum opens its doors on Memorial Day amid a flood of protests and debates over its version of history…

Protests? The hand wringing by the heathens over the opening of this museum is hilarious to watch. If you think it’s all so obviously bogus, what’s it to you then? Go take some valium and watch the movie Space Odyssey if the museum’s opening bothers you that much.

I’ve been so bombarded with the aggravation I’ve been getting at work that I haven’t been able to take a moment to weigh in on the Virginia Tech shootings until now.

What can someone say, really, to such a senseless act? What factors could drive someone so far over the edge that he would meticulously plan a rampage that involved murdering innocent people, many of who probably didn’t even know him? After all, the pain and suffering he evidently experienced is something we all go through in life. I have certainly felt divorced and disconnected from the world, unloved and unwanted, but something like that would make me want to take a nice long nap on the train tracks, not go and shoot innocent people up.

I have to admit I’m a little annoyed by the collective response to this tragedy though, which reveals some of the deeper problems I believe ails our society. When a tragedy like this happens, we usually see candlelight vigils, rallies, and of course, those ever popular ribbon campaigns, all of which seem to serve no other purpose than to demonstrate how much we care (Ooooh, look at me, look at me, I’m wearing an orange ribbon, which means I’m a wonderful, caring person who actually gives a hoot!) There has even been a call for a day of silence where bloggers and commentators alike are encouraged to refrain from blogging, or commenting on blogs for 24 hours.

This always struck me as a rather self-indulgent, Hollywood way to convey sympathy to those who have lost loved ones so shockingly and tragically, even if it had been done with only the purest of intentions. But more notably, it runs contrary to what Christ taught us through Scripture on how our works of charity ought to be made. We are admonished by Him to do such works as secretly as possible, which would prove to ourselves (and to God) that such acts of kindness are not made with the desire to garner favor from others, but out of a genuine love and concern for others. That’s why I tend to see these public shows of support as the equivalent of what the hypocrites Jesus spoke of did, who loved to sound the trumpets and wait for a crowd to gather before they performed their good deeds.

It’s not to say these public rallies have no place at all, but I do think they’ve become embarassingly overemphasized in today’s day and age. That much was evident to me when I noticed the scarcity of sites that were offering drives to donate monies to the victims’ families (to pay for funerals, counseling, memorials, etc.). I only managed to find one so far, but there may be others as well. If you’re interested in donating, the school has created a memorial fund here:

Virginia Tech Memorial Fund