The beaver is a proud and noble animal

Summer sucks. There should be a law abolishing summer. Give me fall/winter all year round. That way, I can still BBQ but without the f’n annoyances of bugs and allergies.

I hate summer.

Current Mood: Aggravated

Source: The Telegraph

Mickey Mouse is a corrupting influence and must die, a Muslim cleric has declared.

Sheikh Muhammad Munajid claimed the mouse is “one of Satan’s soldiers” and makes everything it touches impure. But he warned that depictions of the creature in cartoons such as Tom and Jerry, and Disney’s Mickey Mouse, had taught children that it was in fact loveable. The cleric, a former diplomat at the Saudi embassy in Washington DC, said that under Sharia, both household mice and their cartoon counterparts must be killed. Mr Munajid was asked to give Islam’s teaching on mice during a religious affairs programme broadcast on al-Majd TV, an Arab television network.

According to a translation prepared by the Middle East Media Research Institute, an American press monitoring service, he said: “The mouse is one of Satan’s soldiers and is steered by him. According to Islamic law, the mouse is a repulsive, corrupting creature. How do you think children view mice today – after Tom and Jerry? Even creatures that are repulsive by nature, by logic, and according to Islamic law have become wonderful and are loved by children. Even mice. Mickey Mouse has become an awesome character, even though according to Islamic law, Mickey Mouse should be killed in all cases.”

Last month Mr Munajid condemned the Beijing Olympics as the “bikini Olympics”, claiming that nothing made Satan happier than seeing females athletes dressed in skimpy outfits.

People like this piss me off. There are fanatics on both sides of the debates, and it’s ruining everything for people stuck in the middle. There is more talk this year about banning Santa Claus and Christmas because it could be offensive for Muslims in Britain.

It would seem that it’s not possible to be a moderate anymore. I never was this annoyed by PC-ism, but the whole moralistic outrage culture is giving me a knee-jerk reaction of “let them be offended!”.

Current Mood: Angry

I am not in a happy place at the moment, for several reasons. The first would be because I haven't been sleeping well, and that's always a good way to start a downward spiral, really. The second is that it feels (and smells) like a small furry rodent has taken domicile in my mouth and proceeded to die and is now happily decomposing. Joy of joys.

Between my canadian taxes and my british landlady (mostly, but there are a slew of other little things), I am a fount of happyhappyjoyoy thoughts, which also are not conductive to restful nights.

I need a hug.

Today is one of those days I wish some of the boys were around.

I'm allowed to have bad nights too, you know. you don't have a monopoly on them.

I miss cabs. In Montreal, if you want a cab, you usually just have to walk to a semi-major intersection and wait for about 2.37 seconds and you can just hail one. The UK is a cab boondocks. I went for my first phobia therapy session this morning. It ended at 10am. I had to wait a solid friggin hour to get a cab. Oh, and the receptionist charged me 10p to make the call to the cab company. Bastards. Is the NHS that broke???