The Interfaith Amigos

These guys were interviewed on the radio this morning. Interesting. It's quite sad when that sort of thing seems like the exception rather than the rule these days.

"5 Inexplicably Horrifying Episodes of Classic Comedies"

What the hell, Cracked? o_O But then, of course, Cracked didn't create these episodes (none of which I've seen myself, aside from the Youtube clips embedded in the article), they just wrote an article about them. The Punky Brewster one didn't seem all that bad to me, given that it was all fictional even within the context of the show (though Cracked makes a good point about it being potentially easy to miss that that's the case) and it was all crazy over-the-top supernatural stuff, but from #4 on they were indeed rather horrible, given their relative basis in reality.

But you know what, to me, was the absolute worst part about those? The frickin' laugh tracks... or, even worse, the actual live studio audiences, if that's what they were.

"All the Wrong 9/11 Lessons"

Right after I posted on FB about the Interfaith Amigos again, I saw this bit of tedious, banal drivel posted by one of the super-religious/super-conservatives who is still on my f-list (somehow, despite everything). Hardly 10 minutes had passed. Children, it seems, aren't being taught to hate "the other" well enough, at least not to the satisfaction of Michelle Malkin anyway (and, apparently, the person on my f-list who posted this, as well). And it is, once again (as it always is), due to some sort of leftist conspiracy by educators and Obama and whoever (or some such trite bullshit, I didn't read the whole tiresome thing, and I'm not going to do so).

Now I'm sad and annoyed all over again by the blatant, abject, narrow-minded stupidity of the Faux Noise-addled crowd once more. This, right after I'd just gotten through telling myself that I wasn't going to let that kind of crap get to me anymore. Again, barely 10 minutes had gone by.

God damn it.

*defeated, weary sigh*

(EDIT)

To quote Rabbi Falcon: "This is the problem with compassion, we're compassionate to everybody except those people who aren't compassionate. You can't do it that way. How do we refrain from throwing out of our hearts even those people who we believe to be seriously misguided? How do we keep from throwing out of our hearts those people who are caught in their own fears, in their own distrusts, in their own exclusivities?"

That is something I personally need to work on.

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