The Wacky World of Chris Knight

So, I’ve developed a bit of a pet peeve over the years against glo-sticks, and their myriad variations of use once and throw away bright and shinies. I’ve set up a website that I want to be a great place to find and discuss glo-stick alternatives. I’ve done some digging, and put up a few items. If you have any favorite light toys, could you go take a look at Death to Playa Glo Worms and post your suggestion(s)? If there isn’t a category for you favorite toy(s) let me know and I’ll create it.

Thanks!

-Chris

Follow the link below for the scariest video you have seen since Michael Jackson released Thriller:

Palin Didn’t Know Africa Is A Continent, Says Fox News Reporter (VIDEO)
"didn't understand that Africa was a continent, rather than a series, a country just in itself."

What the fuck??????

I have no other words than “What the fuck??????”

Let me say that one more time…

What the fuck??????

The whole damn world dodged a very serious bullet. We are damn lucky that the narrow minded holier-than-thou nutjobs in this country didn’t send us straight back into the dark ages in this past election.

I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she’s
too young to have logged on yet. Here’s what I worry about. I worry that
10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say “Daddy, where were
you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?”
- Mike Godwin, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Proposition 8 in California, the one that defines homosexuals as having LESS rights that heterosexuals, passed by a very slim margin on Tuesday night. We re not talking a landslide. It was a mere 52.5% for to 47.5% against. Nearly 50% of the voting population voted against Proposition 8, voted against H8 (hate), voted for equality. That doesn’t, in any way, suggest that 50% of the voters were homosexual; it only suggests that nearly 50% were in favor of equality for all no matter what their sexual orientation.

Let’s assume for a moment that those statistics don’t change over the next few years. Let’s assume, for the sake of argument, that it stays a very close race over the next decade even. That would still indicate that nearly 50% of new voters, over the years, would vote in support of equal marriage rights. (Please, Prop 8 supporters, don’t try to tell me that your children will follow your lead exactly; to even try is to forget the ways you rebelled against your parents.) Assuming that I am wrong, from another post, about bigots dying off one generation at a time, and that the margins stay close over the coming years:

What will you, the supporters of Proposition 8, tell your children when they ask you where you were the day that people voted to create a second class of citizen? After years of teaching your kids to ‘do what is right’, will you admit you cast your vote to create a caste society in the United States itself? Will you admit that you feel you are better than people who do not believe as you do?

What will you do if one of your children is brave enough to admit to your bigoted self that they are homosexual? Will you tell them you love them no matter what, or will you tell them they are a second class citizen that is not deserving of the happiness that you have? Will you tell your own child they are not as good as you?

To misquote Mike Godwin: “Daddy, where were you when they took away ‘and justice for all‘?”

-Chris