March 2010

I am very sorry about the lack of posts recently, but the reaction to my new sexy Bible readings has been overwhelming! Anyway, I’ve been intending to do a detailed article on the passing of Obama’s health care plan and the reaction to it, but I wanted to get a post up quickly to bring this petition to everyone’s attention: Tell the Republican Party to STOP Inciting Tea Party Racism! The extremism and hatred of the American right in what is supposed to be a civilised country is simply astonishing.

With the International Atheist Convention starting in Melbourne, Australia today (March 12), I felt I had to do something to mark the occasion, seeing as unfortunately I am unable to attend myself. So it seemed like an appropriate occasion to launch a new venture we’ve been planning for some time now: Sachiko’s sexy Bible readings! It does seem that when a lot of people first see me (or at least conservative types), they immediately think “when it comes to brains, she’s got great tits”, simply because I have big tits, and I am a nude model. So I thought it might be fun to really play up to this stereotype, and channel my inner bimbo, as I figured this would be a very funny and effective way to show up the absurdity of a lot of what is written in the Bible, as well as some of the utterly ludicrous contortions of logic people use to defend religious belief. I have to say: it’s really fun to play dumb!

Just when I thought internet social networking couldn’t possibly get any more inane after Twitter, along comes Chat Roulette. You get a random video chat partner, and you have a next button to move you to another one. To keep your partner with you, you basically have to be more interesting than the next person. What this seems to amount to in practice is basically being as outrageous as possible—there doesn’t seem to be any real communication at all. Is this what people are really after with internet social networking—a freak show? Or is this a completely separate phenomenon? Is this a valid form of social networking at all? Could it even be called a valid form of entertainment?

Whatever it is, it seems to be taking off in a big way. It’s starting to get a fair bit of media attention, and no doubt it will attract a lot of venture capital—even though they’ll probably never be able to figure out how to make any money out of it. After all this time, Twitter still hasn’t figured out how to.