What the funny kids are posting

 

 

Here are a fun collection of images from some of my favorite sites, including I have seen the whole of the Internet, The Daily Wh.at, reddit.com/r/funny and Tastefully Offensive

Pic of kitten reads, “Itz ok just go on wifout meh”

 

 

Pic of dog licking human leg reads, “ATTACK!” 

 

Image of popular logos says, “Name these brands”. Beside that image of leaves says, “Name these plants.”

 

Illustration of slice of cheese taking two slices of cheese photo says, “Say ‘people’”. 

 

Image of boxer tangled up in broken blinds. 

 

Image of door stop reads, “If I were a cartoon, my boner would sound like this thing.” 

 

Image of sheep looks like it is skipping down the street reads, “Fuck you I won’t do what you tell me.” Image of Native American wielding a gun, reads “As far as I’m concerned, you’re all illegal aliens.” 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cameron takes on the dead birds

Over at facebook, Neuenschwander posted a CNN link about Anderson Cooper interviewing Kirk Cameron regarding the dead birds falling from the sky event that happened on New Year’s Day.

I saw it on my phone, and I thought I would look at the article. I did. It’s neither here nor there. Cameron seemed to stay away from saying anything too stupid. But then I started reading the comments. What a freaking train wreck.

I ended up reading the comments (on this link) for over 30 minutes.

The conversation is an incessant bickering back and forth between some believers and non. The believers all say to believe. The non-believers nitpick at the bible verses and theological nonsense from the believers.

The believers hide behind their thin veil of hateful rhetoric, and they say things like, “These non-believers will believe when it’s too late and they are standing in front of god on judgement day.”

Or they say, “I’m not the one who will harm you. It will be the wrath of god.”

I know my next point is a redundant response from atheists, but I have to say it again. Why do these outspoken believers write with an incredibly disproportionate amount of grammatical and spelling errors? Once in a while, a commenter starts with a very smart statement that I agree with, and then the rest of the response digresses into a religious rant loaded with grammar/spelling issues.

When I read that stuff, I write the person off. I can’t stand it. I’m not saying I’m perfect. My writing is far from error free.

But come on. People say things like, “I belief that your wrong.” And those are just little errors.

I’m not saying “belief = stupidity.” But I can’t help but point out that the bad writing, in regards to this thread, comes from an association with belief.

 

 

Speaking of turning cheeks

At least 21 people have died in the Egyptian city of Alexandria when a bomb blew up outside a church.

The targets were Copts, who responded with fury to the overnight attack, marching on a nearby mosque, where they clashed with police.

Al Jazeera’s Ayman Moyheldin reports.

Related Articles

• Egypt Holds 17 After Deadly Blast, Al Jazeera Reports (businessweek.com)
• Focus on final body in Egypt church attack (msnbc.msn.com)

Le Café Witteveen Year in Review

A painting I did in high school.

 

Happy New Year, you lovely people! 2010 was a great year. We passed 100,000 hits. We posted almost 2,500 1900times. And we made it a full year without being struck down by lightning. Some of us anyway.

Remember that guy who’s soon-to-be fiancée was struck by lighting, and I wrote about it, and he called me … on the phone! How scary was that? That guy’s name is Richard Butler. I checked Richard Butler’s blog, and he hasn’t been doing very well. Go check in on him. He’s decided to bail on his mortgage and ride the rails around the country. Sounds like a great thing to do, really. He’ll definitely have some stories when it’s all said and done.

The year started with a bang. You’ll remember that I had a book challenge with Mark Tetzlaff. January and February ended up being Le Café’s best months ever in terms of hits. I drove to Champaign, IL to attend John Loftus’ debate with Dinesh D’Souza in February. It’s a good thing Loftus won that debate.

Honk.

Eventually during the year, Tetzlaff and his buddy Justin-pooh threw in the towel on a two-way conversational blog, and opted out for the more reasonable, Christlike one-way or the highway blog.

Zdenny threw in the towel, too, thanks to me. Just me. No one else.

But now we have a guy named David who has eased his way into the role of crazy commenter at Le Café and we welcome him with open arms.

The blog slowed down over the summer. I went on a missions trip in July to show how great atheists and believers can get along. Just because you disagree with someone’s views doesn’t mean you can’t sleep in the same room with them. The trip was with my dad, no less, and it really brought us closer.

When we got back, we shot regular-reader Xina’s wedding. Marriage is a great institution, and I’m longing for the day when all people who love one another can opt to marry one another.

Back in Chicago in August, Tina and I adopted Talulah. This was Jude’s favorite moment of 2010. Talulah the best dog I could imagine having, and she should be the poster child for pit/boxers. I don’t think I told you that while we were in North Carolina, my year-and-a-half-old niece scootched over to Talulah’s bowl while she was eating and stuck her hand in there, and Talulah only looked at her. If that doesn’t say how awesome and kid friendly she is, I don’t know what does.

The end of the year has wrapped up nicely just in time for Christmas. Or solstice. Or Saturnalia. Or Hanukkah. Or whatever damn holy holiday or not you want to honor.

Tina and I have decided to go full-fledge into business with one another. T-love has been dragging her feet over the past year. But she’s finally making the commitment and I couldn’t be happier.

Apart from that, Vuvuzela jokes got some of the heaviest hits this year. Hitchens got cancer. Dawkins died. I started a series of short stories called Pope Mohammed. And I’m decidedly going to keep on blogging, if for nothing else but to entertain the 30 to 50 of you who regularly read this blog.

I don’t make resolutions. I don’t believe 2011 is a new start except on paper and for taxes. It’s a continuation of what has been in the past and moves us into the future.

If there’s a message I have: it’s that it’s okay not to believe in Jesus, Mohammed, Yahweh, Zeus, Buddha, Zoroaster or any number of religious ideas. Life might be good with religious beliefs, but it’s damn brilliant without. The colors are richer, sharper and the grass is greener, tastes better, and tickles your neck when you lie in it … in a good way.

Oh yeah, and my new catchphrase to believers after they pull out the Pascal’s Wager card, “What if I’m wrong? What if you’re right!?! Holy crap, that would be awful.”

Believe me. It sounds really good when I say it out loud. When are you coming over for me to do my best “Jeremy” impression for you?

Whelp, that’s about it.

Did I miss a great moment? Please, leave a comment and let me know what it was. What do you want to see more of? Less of?

Cheers to you and yours! Here’s to 2011 … whatever that means.

Happy New Year’s Eve

I didn’t anticipate not having a lot of time today. Regularly scheduled Le Café blogging has had to take a backseat today.

I had to edit photos this morning and now I’m editing a video I shot with my niece. We decided to host New Year’s with a couple friends tonight, so after this, I’m going to be grocery shopping and then I’ll be cooking. I’m going to make some pies for dinner on special request.

I ruined a pie over at regular-reader SAW’s house while in North Carolina, and I’m so pissed off I’m going to redeem myself … if only in my head.

We’ll bring in the new year rather casually, as one of us is pregnant, and it’s not Talulah or Tina. One of our guests has a bun or two in the oven. It’s still early, so I’ll need to make sure there are no nitrates in any meat. I’ll also have to make sure I don’t make anything that will make her hurl.

What’s on your agenda for the evening?