Deseret News Ad Policy Reeks Havoc on Ruzicka

The Newspaper Agency Corporation in its infinite wisdom has seen fit to put revolving ads in its Internet Ad space, thus each time you go to a page to look at an article you get a different ad. In fact, just last Sunday the Tribune's Reader Advocate had a column on inappropriate advertising.

The latest victim in the revolving ad account appears to be right wing gad-fly Gayle Ruzika, that opponent of Cosmopolitan and People magazine covers in the supermarket, had a revolving ad pop up on her son's obituary page -- an ad claiming Sexier Rates, replete with a romance novel couple going after each other over a not-so-randomly phallic Eiffel Tower. Even the small ad above for an unknown product (probably the Want Ads) gets into the ironic effect with "A Match Made in HEAVEN." You know that if Gayle saw the ad (on the beloved Deseret News, no less) you know she would have been at the very least mildly irritated.

This whole thing is tragic and ironic in so many ways. A young man has lost his life. Apparently, if the order of the sentences is any indication of importance, the most important thing about Josh was his church membership. I found that sad. I found it equally sad that the Newspaper Agency Corp. doesn't have the good sense to figure out how to keep from posting inappropriate ads. Just because I wouldn't mind a porno ad next to my obituary, doesn't mean that I can't see that a significant number of people wouldn't want a couple grinning at each other with lust next to their loved one's obituary. The fact that Ruzicka has campaigned against even more benign images being covered up in grocery and convenient stores makes one feel that karmic elements of the universe were converging if the whole damn thing wasn't so awful.

Athiest Missionaries

An athiest comes to Utah to proselytize. I totally love the old guy with the broom.

My Movie: Not

What? You really think I'd post a movie of myself? Made you look. Here are two You-tube videos on the travails of being a Mormon missionary.

Post Card Redux

I can only deduce what was going on in the minds of these people through the power of the Urim and Thummin and continuing revelation.

Pointing the Guns

The entire purpose of the legal system is to determine who has the right to utilize the force of the State. If you are being arrested, it is because the State under the law has the right to use force to kidnap you. If you have been sued, cops with guns show up to take your property or your money. The law is nothing more than the control and organization of violence.

R-Rated Movies: Saturn 3 and Ordinary People

This is also one of those things that used to drive me nuts about Mormonism's prohibition on R-rated movies -- the message of the movie could be highly moral or just, but its R-rating prohibited attendance. Now granted the first R-Rated Movie I went to was Saturn 3 so I could get a glimpse of Farrah's tit (see above for the actual shot from 1980), but the second R-Rated Movie I ever attended was Ordinary People, which featured no tits and haunts me twenty five years later.

Shakespeare would have probably got an R, if not an NC-17 for most of his stuff if it was played out the way he wrote it. The R-rated movie ban in Mormonism is simply a way to 1) make tits more titillating to young men -- although the Internet has probably made them blase by now and 2) to exercise paternalistic control over the mindless herd that can't tell great art from B-movie sleaze.

Boob Ogling

So do the No Credit Card and No Cash mean these are real? Just curious -- click the top picture, ogle and observe.

And then finally, the boobs have eyes . . .