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[theweaselking]

A new Indian documentary focuses on a secretive sect of Hindu ascetics who eat corpses in the belief that ingesting dead flesh will make them ageless and give them supernatural powers.

"Feeding on the Dead," a 10-minute documentary, delves into the little-known world of the Aghori sect, whose holymen pluck dead bodies from the Ganges River in northern India.

Speaking of feeding on the dead,
How Stuff Works: Zombie Edition.

Also,
Wisconsin cat goes missing. Family searches literally everywhere, finds cat in France.

Also,

Pumpkin carving, Worth1000 style.

Also,
Rosa Parks may join presidents and generals as the first woman and second black person to lie in state at the US Capitol Building.

Also, USA Versus Canada:
Pennsylvania school cancels Halloween because it offends Christians. Meanwhile, Toronto school cancels Halloween because it MIGHT offend Wiccans.

Speaking of Halloween and delusional nutjobs,

Count the things wrong with this comic strip.

More Halloween:

Dog costumes photo gallery.

Also,
"Sarchasm" - the distance between those who get it and those who don't.

Also,
Oakland Raiders to address their biggest problem this season: Raiders fans.

Also about football,
CFL fan wins $1,000,000 by kicking 50-yard field goal.

Also, for the locals:
Every storm on record that started where Beta is has hit Florida, except one - which hit Ottawa.

Also,

Okies take "Jesus fish" literally.

Comments

[thathatedguy.livejournal.com]

Count the things wrong with this comic strip.
Well, first off, ducks don't talk.

[zenten.livejournal.com]

It's a penguine, not a duck.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

You're thinking Opus. This is Mallard Fillmore.

[johan-g.livejournal.com]

Count the things wrong with this comic strip.

I get confused. Is the fact that it's painfully unfunny a flaw or a feature with the strip?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

It's Mallard Fillmore, a comic strip for Republicans.

The thing is, it's MILITANTLY unfunny, and still popular because it makes fun of them dirty ignant libruls. Of it's 365 strips a year, more than 250 are *still* "Clinton likes women!" jokes.

There are no funny ultra-conservative comics. It's kinda sad.

[zenten.livejournal.com]

Oh, I thought it was Opis.

[sivi-volk.livejournal.com]

Opus has a much bigger nose and fewer, if any, visible feathers.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Also, Mallard Fillmore wishes it had one one millionth of the wit and charm of Opus, Outland, or Bloom County.

[harper-knight.livejournal.com]

ehm... so it isn't joking? like, they actually think Halloween was a christian holiday?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Nope. He's not joking.

[zenten.livejournal.com]

Well, it kind of is. Or at least just as christian as any other major christian holiday.

[harper-knight.livejournal.com]

exACTLY. in other words, fuck-all.

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

Toronto school cancels Halloween because it MIGHT offend Wiccans.

Of course, if any of them troubled to ASK us, they'd discover that we don't give a flying fuck either way.

This happened here in Washington last year. I want to know why THIS is an issue, rather than sliding test scores, insufficient funding, oversized classes, idiots trying to get ID into the biology curriculum, and the general disappearance of art, music, and physical education programs.

Also, some of the stuff listed on that site is no part of any Wiccan practice that I'm aware of. (Unless it's from oathbound material, in which case it shouldn't be made public by definition.) WTF was their source?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

WTF was their source?

The same place ALL wiccans get it, silly! Starhawk and Silver Ravenwolf!

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

Oh, gosh, I forgot! I donated all my Silver Ravenwolf books to the library book sale years ago! What was I thinking?

(Admittedly, I do own two of Starhawk's books. While I disagree heartily with much of her publicly stated opinion, she's a very effective ritualist. Which is sort of scary, actually.)

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Define "effective" for me, will you?

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

Basically, it means she'd do very well as a theatre director, and perhaps that's what she should've been. Having done it a time or two myself, I appreciate the difficulty of rounding up a bunch of people you've never even met and staging some sort of attempt at group gnosis.

I've borrowed stuff from The Spiral Dance from time to time. Although, the last time I used anything from it was almost 10 years ago.