Sacrifices to the god of genetics–another voluntary amputation.

It seems the act deliberately cutting off one’s breasts is moving up the celebrity chain. In 2008 it was author Jessica Queller. In 2010 it was Fox News’ E.D. Hill (now at CNN).

And now apparently, it’s Angolina Jolie:

Angelina Jolie says she underwent a preventive double mastectomy earlier this year after learning she carries a gene that increases her risk of developing breast cancer and ovarian cancer.

In a New York Times op-ed published late Monday, the 37-year-old Academy Award winner writes that after genetic testing she learned she carries the “faulty” BRCA1 gene.

The risk of developing cancer due to the gene varies, but Jolie says doctors estimated she had an 87 percent risk of breast cancer and a 50 percent risk of ovarian cancer.

Trooper Ale by Iron Maiden! \m/-_-\m/

I can’t believe Mark Shea beat me to the story about Iron Maiden putting out their own beer:

Fewer like Fr. Steven please.

White male jocks to become a protected class?

O the travails of the white male progressive. Always stumping for other oppressed people but always being the lowest card in the deck in Victimhood Poker. If only there was a way for them to store treasure in Leftist Heaven simply by being made in its hydra-headed god’s image.

Enter Vikings punter Chris Kluwe as the coming Messiah and Les Carpenter playing John the Baptist’s voice crying in the wilderness. Mr. Kluwe’s foul-mouthed emanations first stunk up my internet radar shortly after the release of the video game X-COM: Enemy Unknown. Apparently the developers of this (granted, excellent) game found out that Mr. Kluwe was a gaming enthusiast and added him as a playable character in the game. My first reaction was positive and I liked the novelty. Then I looked him up. Warning: this link here in addition to being full of the hoary belchings of Official Mendacity is also laced with obscenities.

Now Chris is being let go. While I am fully familiar with football’s rules and occasionally tune in, I have no knowledge of inside football, so I am relying on the general consensus of the commenters at Mr. Carpenter’s article that say that while Mr. Kluwe is good, he is not 1.3 million-dollars good and therefore it is justifiable that the management doesn’t want to keep him. But that does not stop Mr. Carpenter from declaring that none of us are worthy to stoop down and loosen the laces on Chris’s cleats. “In fact he had been a very effective punter, deadening his kicks as if his leg was a 9-iron.”

So, according to Les the Baptist, the real reason Chris is being let go must be because we Pharisees and Scribes who doubt must be homophobic. And there you have it: the white male heterosexual jock has found a way into the sanctum sanctorum. Just recite the creed, “I believe in same-sex marriage” and you’re in.

Tolkien vs. lying for a good cause

Faramir smiled grimly. ‘Then you would grieve to learn that Boromir is dead?’

‘I would grieve indeed,’ said Frodo. Then catching the look in Faramir’s eyes, he faltered. ‘Dead?’ he said. ‘Do you mean that he is dead, and that you knew it? You have been trying to trap me in words, playing with me? Or are you now trying to snare me with a falsehood?’

‘I would not snare even an orc with a falsehood,’ said Faramir.

Rather let the heavens fall than anyone take their child out of the hospital for a second opinion.

Because blue-state bureaucrats will send a contingent of armed red-state police to take the child away:

Hat tip Lydia

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