Tonight I stopped in to work briefly to get one or two things done before tomorrow, and noticed something sitting on my desk. It was a page from one of those daily calendars with little proverbs written on each day, that I had seen on the desk of one of my more religious co-workers. This one said something to the effect of:

There is much diversity of thought in my family. I have the right to my opinions, and they have the right to theirs. Inner Wisdom guides us all.

I agree that we all have the right to believe whatever we want. I'm against banning religion and forcing people to be atheist. That would make us just as bad as our opposition.

The conservative group Concerned Women for America is complaining about the "hipocrisy" of this ad for San Francisco's Folsom Street Fair. This take on the infamous Da Vinci painting, "The Last Supper", replaces Jesus and his followers with men and women dressed in sadomasochistic gear (as well as one cross-dresser), and replaces the food with various sex toys. CWA attributes the advertisement to the gay community, saying on their website:

There was a "Holistic Health Fair" here in town yesterday, and I was amazed at how many of these quacks talk about vibration. Reflexology, for one, seems to me as nothing more than using a vibrator on someone's foot and thinking that it'll resonate through their body to cure their back pains, etc.

I work with someone who actually believes this bullshit. She showed me a bottle of "fountain of youth" water she got from the fair, and I had a good laugh over it. It's obviously an Arrowhead water bottle with the label ripped off, it still has the sticky stuff on the side of the bottle. The top was open when she bought it too. Apparently what they do is take this water and run it through a machine that "changes the vibration" of the water. Somehow this makes it healthier, and the lady selling it even claimed that you don't need sunblock when you drink it because it makes your skin more resistant to UV light. Sounds like Snake Oil to me.