At Face Value

Everyone knows that David Cronenberg is not normal. He is, after all, the man who made Naked Lunch, Dead Ringers, and eXistenZ but he let his weirdness spill off of the screen and onto the set while filming his latest, A History of Violence. In order to help stars Viggo Mortensen and Maria Bello get into the swing of their sex scenes, Cronenberg and his wife did the nasty on the set. Reminds me of Paul Verhoeven directing the shower scene in Starship Troopers while in his undies to help calm all the young, inexperienced actors.

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If you have or are into large labia (and who isn't?), then this site is for you. Not only are there pictures of luscious labia, but helpful tips on tanning them as well:

When your pussy lips are all safely oiled up with tanning lotion, lay back and open your legs wide. Try to keep your labia minora closed so the inner skin doesn't dry too much. It's easier if you have very big inner lips because you can simply squeeze them together and lay them to one side of your vulva, keeping the entrance of the vagina covered. Just move your labia from time to time to let both sides tan evenly.

Yeah, those uneven tans on labia are such a faux pas these days.

According to researchers, young women are in the lead of tearing down sexual taboos. And now onto matters non-sexual.

Sam Harris has a new screed up at The Huffington Post called "There is No God (And You Know It). An excerpt:

Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply a refusal to deny the obvious. Unfortunately, we live in a world in which the obvious is overlooked as a matter of principle. The obvious must be observed and re-observed and argued for. This is a thankless job. It carries with it an aura of petulance and insensitivity. It is, moreover, a job that the atheist does not want.

It is worth noting that no one ever need identify himself as a non-astrologer or a non-alchemist. Consequently, we do not have words for people who deny the validity of these pseudo-disciplines. Likewise, “atheism” is a term that should not even exist. Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma. The atheist is merely a person who believes that the 260 million Americans (eighty-seven percent of the population) who claim to “never doubt the existence of God” should be obliged to present evidence for his existence -- and, indeed, for his benevolence, given the relentless destruction of innocent human beings we witness in the world each day. Only the atheist appreciates just how uncanny our situation is: most of us believe in a God that is every bit as specious as the gods of Mount Olympus; no person, whatever his or her qualifications, can seek public office in the United States without pretending to be certain that such a God exists; and much of what passes for public policy in our country conforms to religious taboos and superstitions appropriate to a medieval theocracy.

As Richard Dawkins has observed, we are all atheists with respect to Zeus and Thor. Only the atheist has realized that the biblical god is no different. Consequently, only the atheist is compassionate enough to take the profundity of the world’s suffering at face value.