It’s a bit disturbing to me that NBC’s solution to Heroes’ rapidly falling ratings was to introduce a lesbian love story. Why?

First off, it’s an indicator that we’ve reached such a level of political correctness that “tolerance” has become one of our society’s greatest virtue. By this I do not mean that tolerance (in itself) is a bad thing, but I do mean that what we now term tolerance goes far beyond that. Tolerance means “I will not prohibit you from doing something,” and typically understands the action/belief in question to be one that contradicts what the tolerating person believes. Tolerance does not equate to agreement or support, nor does it entail unilateral pluralistic license.

I will tolerate it if the neighbors’ music is a little too loud up until a certain time of night. If asked, I would prefer that they keep the noise to a reasonable level, and I will even state that it is disrespectful, selfish, and unkind for them to violate my need for restful sleep. Nevertheless, I might tolerate it up to certain levels in order to maintain a more amicable relationship with my neighbors. However, there is a point at which tolerance is no longer a virtue: if I cannot sleep at 3AM because of the noise next door, or have chronic headaches from their chronic partying, I will demand that they stop and involve the police if necessary. You wouldn’t call me intolerant for that, you’d say I was standing up for my rights, my beliefs that I need sleep to function properly at school, work, etc.

So, I will tolerate homosexual couples and beliefs to a certain degree. Homosexual activity (as opposed to temptation) is a sin per God’s judgement as revealed in Scripture, but I also recognize that humans have free will and there is only one Lawgiver and Judge, and that said Lawgiver is not me. However, when Heroes (or anyone else, for that matter) attempts to equate homosexual relationships with heterosexual ones, they are preaching a morality against Scripture that unfortunately has deceived many. Wrapping it in the attractive context of trust and love makes the moral precepts being pitched that much more dangerous. Satan masquerades as an angel of light. For the sake of current and future believers, I must resist this wholeheartedly.

Lest you miss it, I am also highly disgusted by how Hollywood does this with heterosexual relationships as well: takes extramarital sexual relationships, couches them in “devoted love,” and portrays them as a good, desirable thing. This too is opposed to Scripture and deserves our censure. Why the “double standard?” It’s partially due to the compounding nature of homosexual activity (not only is it illicit in it’s nature, but it is also further sinful in its typical extra-marital context), and partially due to the fact that the extramarital relationships battle has been largely lost in our culture and avoiding all references to such activity would likely shut us out from the media entirely. The homosexual topic still has enough of a taboo and minority status attached to it that prevention of its popularization may still be feasible.

So, here we are. Heroes was starting to be lame, but I was still hooked. I just won’t support a homosexual agenda in my viewing habits.

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I recently canceled my service for Verizon Wireless, and I’m going to do my duty and pay my early termination fee on two lines – to the tune of $266. They, however, will not refund me the prorated amount for a half a month’s service that I didn’t use when I took my phone number (gladly) elsewhere — to the tune of $20-30. They had no problem prorating service when I signed up for the contract, they had no problem billing me $0.20/text message, and they had no problem neglecting to tell me that my service would still remain paid for an entire month when I called to ask them about porting. Apparently it’s buried in the fine print, so they feel just dandy saying I should have read it–calling them and asking about the cancellation process apparently wasn’t enough.

Why can they be so cold? It’s the network, apparently. However, you can get the same network through Page Plus, and get unlimited talk & text for $40 a month to boot, and not have to deal with the money grubbers. At least with Page Plus, you know what you’re getting.

They say that bad press hits 10 times more ears than good press. I hope this hits more–because I’m mad? Maybe a little, and I certainly wouldn’t have posted had they treated me a little better. Mostly though, it’s because I don’t want you to have to be treated the same way. Do yourself a favor and look elsewhere.

You might have read the reviews, you’ve probably seen the commercials. They’re all true: New Super Mario Bros Wii is one of the best Wii games ever made, and absolutely superb for multiplayer. Here’s why:

The graphics are pretty, the controls work like they’re intended to–it’s a very polished game. The game goes out of its way to make sure newbs aren’t totally lost or frustrated, and it’s challenging and deep enough to satisfy any gamer who ever enjoyed a Super Mario Bros game on any system. Other than being the most fun Mario title to date (and the truest evolution of Super Mario Bros for the 21st century), this true-to-its-roots 2D scroller has a few features to keep the non-hardcore-gamer from pulling their hair out.

• multi-player capability is guaranteed hilarity. most fun i’ve had in a LONG time playing a video game, even with people who are very bad at the game. why? if you’re about to die, or can’t get past a particularly difficult jumping sequence, you can put yourself in a “bubble” and safely float forward to join your more skilled friends. no more crying that you can’t make it past that part–as long as there’s at least one person alive and not in a bubble, you’re ok. if everyone “bubbles” or dies at the same time, you’ve got to start over. this gets to be quite funny when you all start bubbling and the last guy panics and bubbles, or jumps off a cliff!
• throwing people and jumping off their heads can lead to some very, very fun and competitive gameplay, or if properly done, teamwork doing these same things can make some difficult unlocks or sequences much easier.
• if you die too many times on multiplayer, you can watch a video to show you how to do the level.
• as you earn large coins, you can spend them to watch videos that show you how to find secret goals and powerups. then you don’t feel like you cheated when you search the internet for the same info, because you earned it!
• as you play through the game, you don’t have to always use the same number of players. that is, if you beat 4 worlds alone and save the game, the next time you turn on the game you can pick up where you left off with 1, 2, 3, or even 4 people! if you’ve cooperatively beat most of the game with a friend, you can come back and earn all the extra stuff you missed alone later.
• Penguin suit and propeller hats rock

this game is a total win. you simply MUST buy it.

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Some days I’m convinced that the internet will lead to the death of reason, or at least rational thought. Then I remind myself I’m becoming cynical, and that wikipedia isn’t that horrible. Then I read something like this post on how the digital transition is an evil plot.

And I think to myself, surely he can’t be serious!?

Dude thinks that the reason TV went digital is to enable easier “digital” manipulation of live video (dah dah daummm…!). WHICH of course just goes to show that he knows nothing of what digital vs. analog really is, such as how something shot with a digital camera can be broadcast with an analog signal, or vice versa.

Oh, wait, even worse, the government can also use your new digital TV to spy on you in your living room. Just like a car can drive in reverse, a TV can also send images in reverse. How does he even come up with this stuff?! Sounds like the reasoning a 6-year-old might use.

The truth is, digital transmission is MUCH more efficient at its use of the limited bandwidth available for over the air (or even line-based) transmission, and enables our system to finally step out of the standard-definition dark ages and move towards high definition TV. Of course, anyone who’s convinced that the whole world is out to get them isn’t going to “fall for” such an explanation. This is the same guy who thinks that every time a Disney movie has a star in it (eg. USAF logos on the side of a plane) that it’s demonic brainwashing. How do you even argue with people like this?

Scary thing is how many people will applaud this kind of thing, and “knowingly” agree that it’s a huge plot to enthrone satan over the whole world. Why can’t reasonable conservatives find news media that they can really always trust? Because the only alternatives are left-leaning networks and guys like this on talk radio.