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Sit the fuck down, Mary.

After decades of bickering, an international ecumenical body devoted to bridging the gulf between the Anglican and Catholic churches has reached a historic agreement about the role of Mary, Mother of Jesus: she is the Lord’s handmaiden and sinless, but not the source of eternal salvation.

Copyright an aberration with a limited future.

Copyright laws operate against the interests of consumers and most artists. They mostly benefit the middlemen in the music, film and publishing industries. It is these people who are directly responsible for the predominance of junk served up on the screen and over the airwaves. They seek to extend their temporary control of content and how it is distributed for as long as they can.

Gotta go to my crappy EBUS lab this morning. It’s raining pretty hard, though. Not sure if I’ll make the effort. That means I’ll have to SMS Dave and let him know and check the schedule for this lab, just in case. Fucking shit subject. Bah.

More articles:
Artists concerned tattoos losing nonconformist lure.
Mafia boss evaded capture by dressing as bishop.
Mystery of the silent piano man, stranger on the shore.

I always knew tattoos were for sell-outs.