Liam Kinnon

This is not really the thing to come back to blogging with, but yeesh.  You should never have to ask Facebook if you are on a boat.

Quizzes are out of hand on Facebook

And I’m fully aware that this is a song by the Lonely Island.

My new career goal is to become a senior pastor at a megachurch. Essentially a megachurch pastor is the closest you can get to being a medieval bishop. You get a six day weekend by milking your congregants for all they are worth on Sundays. It’s almost like feudalism with the congregants as voluntary serfs. With the added bonus of being able to get married too. How ideal is that?

The similarities to bishopdom don’t end there. Beyond financial gains you also get authority gains. The church becomes your fiefdom, with you its true ruler. With enough lip service to God you can say and do whatever you want. With even more lip service you can claim that your orders are in fact the voice of God. Even more advantaegeous is that your role becomes hereditary. You can pass on your title to your children. Who are most likely already employed in your church. This is something even bishops couldn’t claim.

Yup, I think that once I achieve senior-pastorhood at one of these megachurches I will be set.  I can become a best selling author, be revered by thousands, and enjoy one of the shortest work weeks in the western world.  The perfect life.

Due to recent discoveries by leading linguists, software engineers at the University of Toronto are developing Automatic Messaging software. “What we’ve discovered is that there are roughly 5 IM (instant messaging) conversations that people have” saidTracy McMillan, head of linguistic studies, at a recent press conference detailing the new software. John Claverty, head of the software engineering program, continued “the key was to find ways to save time for the young people of today. I felt bad for them, having 15 conversations going at once, trying to keep all their friends happy. Dealing with drama” he continued, “We’ve created software based on keywords that automatically provides responses to common questions like, Sup? Huh? WTF? Allowing young people more time to focus on things like studying.”

What is most interesting about this development program is a rare show of cooperation between an Arts faculty and a Science faculty. At a campus already fractured by its college system this move goes a long way towards reconciliation. “It says to the arts colleges, if the liberal arts and sciences can get along, why can’t one Art college get along with another?” Says McMillan.

In other news, squirrels attack philosophy major student, thinking he’s nuts.

I think these ten dating tips may be the most important thing a Christian girl ever reads. How I found them is unimportant, how amazing they are is.
My personal favorites are:

5: If he reaches his arm around you… Tell him no one will ever be as close to you as Jesus is. (Or ask if you could “lay hands” on him in prayer)

6: If he tries to kiss you… Remind him that a kiss killed your savior (and you’re not ready to “speak in tongues”)

Good ol’ activist judges…

I just saw this from the national post. Apparently a panel of three Ontario justices has decided to legally recognize a lesbian couple and a sperm donor father as the parents (that’s right three parents) of a child. I’ll lay the greater ramifications of this aside for now.

Essentially this is just further breakdown of the idea of the “nuclear family”. So here is my prediction. Frankly it’s unfair to allow a child to have two mothers but to deny a man two wives (or a woman two husbands, we’ve got be egalitarian now). So long as everyone in the situation consents to the relationship(s) what’s the harm right? So my prediction is that this is the next step in the breakdown of the traditional idea of the family: multiple spouses.

It’s weird to actually see this stuff playing out before my very eyes. What disturbs me the most is that as far as I can tell there was no democratic process involved in this decision. Three appointed judges got to make a decision with lasting ramifications without the people of Ontario being consulted. Is this the future of lawmaking in Canada?

In my next post I’ll try and talk about some of the predictions Douglas Farrow made about the greater ramifications these sort of decisions are leading to.