Concepts and Priests

Since this is my first day, some explanation is necessary.

I love human behavior. All of it. It fascinates me. I go to the grocery store and spend more time observing interactions between parents and children than buying food. I go out to eat with my wife and the discussion inevitably turns what we hear and see from the people around us.

Human behavior, for various ethical and practical reasons, has been difficult to portray in mass media. But when it happens, it's memorable. For every episode of Candid Camera I watched as a kid, I imagined five more where things went wrong. Somewhere there must be a dusty old box filled with binned videos that would make a great holiday gift for me, if case you were wondering.

Reality television, to me, is the Hawthorne Effect in media form; temporary spikes in human nuttiness that depart with the cameras.

You want real, uninhibited human behavior? Then the "comments" section of any on-line news article is your huckleberry. From news to politics to sports, no subject is immune to this new cultural medium. It is anonymous and completely without consequences and thus attracts the caliber of human being that you might expect.

This should be fun.

Today's comment comes from an AP article posted on Fox News regarding Pope Benedict's statement urging Christians who face persecution to have courage.

The Pope tells Catholic parents and their children to have courage and submit to all priests se x u al demands as they are doing god's greatest work on earth for all man kind. It is a small sacrifice to give up a child's life, to save a priest from eternal torture of god's commanded celibacy. $ex with a small child is a well deserved payment for being denied a natural human relationship in god's name. There is a special place next to god in heaven for all those who submit and do not complain for all eternity.

Kudos to this chap, who left me half thinking he was engaging in clever parody and half thinking that he may actually believe what he wrote, and 100% entertained either way.

+1 point for spelling tricks to avoid getting scrubbed
+20 points for incomprehensible satire/demagoguery
-5 for pedophile priest reference (that's so 2009).

Toodles!