The first set of Seven Deadly Sins made a lot of sense, especially if your flock included medieval, cousin-humping brutes. Here’s the new set:

1. “Bioethical” violations (birth control)
2. “Morally dubious” science (stem cell research)
3. Drug abuse
4. Polluting the environment
5. Contributing to widening divide between rich and poor
6. Excessive wealth
7. Creating poverty

It’s easy to detect a weird (unholy?) mix of modern awareness (eg, widening income gaps, no pollution) and bullshit orthodoxy (ban on birth control and stem cell research). The modern and the orthodox contradict directly—banning birth control, for example, directly creates poverty. And banning stem cell research extends the suffering of many who would benefit from new drugs. So kudos, Vatican!

Image: Goya/from the “Los Caprichos” etchings.

DG does not read Perez Hilton, but sometimes our worlds collide. Via DGSF Elizabeth comes the sordid tale of twin gay porn stars who got busted for [update: allegedly] cutting holes in the roof of a Rite Aid and stealing the 3 C’s every working boy needs: cigarettes, cash, and condoms. Their aol journal is here. Modeling site here. Background here. NSFW here.

Image courtesy of the Guggenheim, Ken and Tyler, 1985, copyright Robert Mapplethorpe.

Awesome story via New Shelton (def click story link; there’s a pic of the robot):

Rufus Terrill has had it with the drug dealers, petty thieves and vandals he says roam the streets outside his downtown Atlanta bar, O’Terrills.

But instead of calling the police or hiring private security guards, Terrill reached for his toolbox.

He mounted an old meat smoker atop a three-wheel scooter and attached a spotlight, an infrared camera, water cannon and a loudspeaker. He covered the contraption with impact-resistant rubber and painted the whole thing jet black.

And so was born what surely must be Atlanta’s first remote-controlled, robotic vigilante.

For real:

“One is a supporter of Barack Obama, the other is a supporter of Hillary Clinton, and an argument of words turned bloody when one brother-in-law tried to choke the other and the victim then responded with a knife and stabbed his brother-in-law in the stomach.”

The newspaper delicately decided not the publish which brother was for whom. Painting by Titian.

Update: Just realized the Hispanic dude quien gusta stabbing people was for Hillary. Perhaps Barack isn’t doing so well with the Latino vote after all? Anyway, I knew Hillary’s people would pull knives when cornered.

From DG super-friend Julie comes late, breaking news that Snoop Dogg has yet to decide whether he will vote for Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton in tomorrow’s primaries. He talks with Larry King on CNN tonight. I just hope they air his “Sensual Seduction” video (or “Sexual Eruption” if you prefer your metaphors the obvious way) as well—that shizzle goes way back to be on time.

Sometime in the 80’s someone invented a computer that was worth a crap. It’s only natural that after time those computers get put to use making “pr0n.” Now the only thing between you and another man’s completely disturbing fantasy is… well nothing. What’s surprising is just how deep this thing goes. You could literally cruise these CG porn sites continuously for, like, the rest of your life, or something. It’s like the Smithsonian, except with blueberry women and satanic rubber-suit-gays…from the future. Here’s some stuff to get you started:

Super Heroine Central

Blueberry chicks (at expansion mansion)

More blueberry chicks

Dudes in uniforms (keeping with the recent theme, don’t miss those Berlin boys!)

Masters and slaves (For turbo gays)

So, as relates to a previous project, I was poking around on the internet, looking for the full text of Justine by the Marquis De Sade. What I found was pretty disturbing: A site purporting to be about “sexual philosophy,” but is actually a front for exchanging information about finding young Asian prostitutes. It’s a bizarre document, covering themes like the best place to get plastic surgery in Bangkok and “sexual market value.” The author comes off as a Botox-addled Humbert Humbert, minus the college education.

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