The Patent Dragon's Zone of Soul Retraction

(...make that expired...)

And on the same day as "The White Skull" "quits", Geoff Johns calls an end to his run on Green Lantern - a greater reason for world-wide sorrow...?

Oh, here's a "nugget" for you: doctors keep getting condemned by the "religious" for "playing God", yet they went ahead and implanted a pacemaker in "The Holy Father". Oh, right - it's only wrong for everyone who isn't some kind of religious fundamentalist in a dress!

Here's Something... Could Saints Row The Third be next on the shopping list? It certainly looks like a whole bunch of fun, in a Carmageddon meets Duke Nukem kind of groove...

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Operation Funplex? That's my "place-holder" title for my next big adventure - two nights of sheer indulgence at An Undisclosed Location. A packing list will be required very soon, I'm thinking.

What else is there? Not a great deal of news is cropping up right now - although that cowardly piece of shit who was caught on CCTV swinging a cat by the tail better pray he never crosses my path. Still, we should be thankful those extremists that were planning to disrupt Remembrance Day observance found their organisation made illegal today - and don't anyone say that's hypocritical of the West, which is "normally so protective of freedom of speech". Outraging the whole country does not count.

Now, let's see...

This month's comics popped up quite unexpectedly, something showed up on eBay that rather caught my eye - and yes, I submitted a bid (which was fairly rapidly overtaken)!

Oh, and The Pope had the unmitigated gall to "voice concerns" about new UK equality laws. Yeah, this is Cardinal Nazi-Brownshirt, leader of the most hateful organisation outside of al-Qaeda, sitting in his palace decorated with blood-stained gold torn from the dead hands of the native peoples of South America by the Vatican's genocidal agents, Cortez and Pizarro...

He's coming to the UK in September? Look forward to Peter Tatchell and his gay rights people kicking up a much-deserved stink - and the God-Squad won't hesitate crying "human rights!" to defend their "rights" to try and keep the rest of us in the Dark Ages.

And finally... Sir Terry Pratchett's Dimbleby Lecture was powerful stuff, delivered in spirited fashion by Tony "Baldrick" Robinson. Sir Terry's humour was in evidence throughout, but the call for "assisted dying" was never diluted by it, and his case was set out clear as day. The critics should watch it, and watch it all.

And finally finally...

3 - Complete at least 100 worthwhile walks (at least one hour outdoors) a year (9/100, 0/100, 0/75)

Yes!

In Today's Episode... All the pieces are at last in place - including a piece no-one could have predicted - and battle is finally joined...

Development News... There isn't any. Today just went straight down the plughole, pretty much before it really got going. Must find a way out of this kinda thing...

Meanwhile... Oh, this is freakin' rich: Secularism 'means fall in births' - the chief rabbi in the UK says that Europe is "dying" because secular "attacks" on religion by "neo-Darwinism" somehow equate to a reduction in the birth rate...

...and this is bad how, might I ask? The planet is already overpopulated, and that is what's killing the planet, as all those excess humans want food, shelter and energy - and what is religion doing about that? Encouraging people to have MORE children so that the High Priests have all the cannon fodder they need for their next "god"-inspired round of genocide. Oh, and plenty of people to "pray" for the souls of the murdered.

Ideally, the truly enlightened among us could climb aboard our fleet of space-ships, and settle on another world, a world based on civilised reason, whilst the religious nutters battle each other to extinction on the slowly charring remains of our former homeworld. Yeah, like the cockroaches are going to appreciate the heaps of curiously unnaturally-shaped boulders that used to be your holy places...

Here endeth the rant.

In Other News... Oh great - here come the hippunks, looking for another scrap with the police thinly disguised as a "legitimate protest" against the planet-murdering G20... and this time, they're in my home town. I'll just stay at home, if you don't mind, and amuse myself with the news coverage.

Gonna "veg" for a bit, Monday and probably Tuesday, and see if that loosens up the creative muscles a bit.

Oh, and The Hallelujah Wave, previously something of a thorn in my side, came and went without ever crossing my path. Wonder how muddy they got...?

And finally... Bad luck, Lewis Hamilton - but then it could have been a whole lot worse.

I just saw the BBC "Panorama" programme on Scientology, detailing the investigation featured, and the response of the organisation under investigation. It just proved to me, yet again, that kind of authoritarian "do as we say or feel our wrath" so-called "religion" is something this world can do without. Please do something more constructive with your energies, or just shut up. You could have tracked down that missing girl, rescued her and earned yourself a whole heap of positive publicity.

Go on. I dare you.

Elsewhat... I had absolutely no problem whatsoever with a scheduling glitch that meant the invigilation team were actually needed on Friday afternoon after all. Hey, I'm getting paid for my efforts, the environment and staff are quite agreeable, project development is being boosted ("Opening Night" should be finished tonight or tomorrow), so that's all cool.

And finally... A new feature: "Deathly Hallows Wild Stab In The Dark Of The Week"...

1) Hogwarts is destroyed by one of the book's major battles.

Stay tuned for next week's DHWSITD - collect them all, and see how many come true come July!

In Today's Episode... Can Darkhawk reach her beseiged warriors in time? Will her plan to put an end to the Faenri invasion succeed? The latest chapter of

Faenri Vs Dominion may hold answers to these, and other crucial questions...

In Our Headline Story... Mum's procedure was over and done before lunch, so that wasn't anything like the "stress-out" it threatened to be. There's still the necessary after-care to attend to, but that won't be too much of a hassle, by the sound of it.

Cue sarcasm... Awww, what a shame - the "God-Squad" aren't going to be allowed to continue hating gays as a "matter of conscience" after all. Disappointed that the public are no longer afraid of them, 'cause no-one believes the fairy-tales any more, they're now crying "Catholic-bashing" to try and get some sympathy.

Oh yeah, we're supposed to feel sorry for you now, after centuries of prejudice and genocide on your part? Conscience? Since when did your organisation ever show any evidence of such a facet of its being in the past?

And finally... X-ray cameras in lampposts to watch out for weapons? What if someone hits one of these x-ray-equipped street-lights with their car, and releases the radioactive material required to make an x-ray camera work? Imagine the damage that would do - probably worse than a terrorist, or chav with a knife.

Fuck right off, Tony. What is he trying to do? Set the self-destruct before he abandons ship? This once-great country can't get rid of this asshole quick enough.

In Today's Episode... The One-Zero-One come to terms with their change of mission in the latest chapter of

Faenri Vs Dominion - and shots are fired...

Elsewhat... Dammit, the movie Contact winds me up every time - "we can't send someone to meet aliens if they don't believe in God", then guess who fucks everything up? A religious maniac.

But... what if we did send some "holy roller" into space, and inflicted on the aliens all this preaching about how the universal creator made our species, and our planet, special and better than all the rest, the centre of all "His" creation? What if the aliens believed they were "special, and better, the centre of all creation"? A chance for enlightenment lost in the nuclear fire of a cosmic jihad, and all because the priests and bible-bashers just want to keep us stupid.

You want proof there's no god? Ask the New Orleans Saints...

Oh wonderful - here we go again...

- Evolution is NOTHING to do with explaining the existence of the universe, stupid. It's the process by which living species develop in response to their environments, and it doesn't affect stars or planets, and despite what the advertisers say, cars and computers do not "evolve" either. Evolution stopped being a "convenient excuse" the moment it was observed in the wild... and oddly enough, that's where it all started. It kinda falls into the category of "observed fact" now, unlike religion...

- DNA did not come into being "by accident", nor is its structure evidence of a "creator". The structure of DNA is the result of the way matter interacts on the atomic, and sub-atomic, levels - carbon naturally forms long chains, and each carbon atom has a configuration of electrons that causes it to form four chemical bonds - hence the regular physical structure of things like graphite or diamond.

The last thing this world needs is to start confusing science and religion. Does anyone honestly think we'll solve the world's problems with prayer? Go on then - get all your "God squad" mates together, and beg "him" for a solution to global warming...

Your excuse for failure will most likely be "it's all according to God's plan" - but what good is it going to do God to make his followers extinct...?

I choose not to let such quitters decide the future of the planet, and humanity.