I went to visit the parents over the weekend, and learned something quite interesting. There's a church in Northern KY that is quite large (as in, a six-flags-over-Jesus kind of thing). This church has a building fund. The pastor of said church apparently fired the building contractor and appointed himself in charge of this operation. There were discrepencies in the bank statements, and when some people in the church asked for accountability, the pastor held a church vote and had those people "removed" from the congregation.
All told, this guy has taken about 800,000 dollars, which were used to purchase a porsche and a minivan (I don't see the connection between the 2 cars, but what do I know). Money was taken out of that account at an ATM at a racetrack. He lied on his tax returns 2 years, and then didn't file another 2 years.
Here's my point. Am I surprised? Not at all. My experience in the Baptist church (which this church is), was that people are so busy judging each other that no one bothers to hold himself or herself accountable. You know what they say about absolute power.
Speaking of this stuff, there was an article in my latest issue of Rolling Stone about "The New Virgin Army." I made it about halfway through before running to the bathroom to throw up. I don't even know how to paraphrase this nonsense. The new argument for celibacy is that our army would be stronger. Yeah, keep a group of guys from being able to have sex or masturbate and see how effective they could be. One guy in the article was quoted as saying that he gets turned on by a traffic light. Imagine giving these guys long-barrelled weapons.
The thing that really toasted my marshmallows was that someone argued that the women's movement was to blame for problems in society, because we have apparently effeminized the men, which causes them to retreat into pornography, when, really, all we women want is to be snapped back into line by the men.
I have nothing more to say about that.
In other news, I have finally found a beer that I didn't think was awful. Unfortunately, it's only made at this place in Newport, KY.
I have been extremely disappointed in this last season of Queer as Folk so far. The characters are completely one-dimensional. And remember when Michael (Hal Sparks) used to be kind of funny? Now he's all "Give me my baby!" and "Don't you love our new house?" I just don't think that getting married in Canada and buying a home will suddenly sap your sense of humor, but what do I know?
Fin.
My apologies and a farewell??? - 2005-10-20
It should be Friday somewhere. - 2005-10-03
It's Friday again! - 2005-10-01
Amendment to previous entry... - 2005-09-26
Longer than I intended. It's to tide you over for another week. - 2005-09-23