Earlier this month my lovely state of VA declared April to be Confederate History Month.  You can read the full proclamation here.  This was supposedly done to help the tourism in the state which will bring in more money, blah blah blah and as with anything involving politicians and money the Governor had a major brain fart and forgot to mention one tiny little thing in this proclamation – slavery – not a word, not a letter or syllable – nada.  I guess that’s understandable, after all the civil war didn’t have very much to do with slavery, did it? The next day Governor Forget-a-lot issued this statement:

“The failure to include any reference to slavery was a mistake, and for that I apologize to any fellow Virginian who has been offended or disappointed.”

Honestly, I don’t know why anyone would want to commemorate such a horrible time in the history of the US. Oh that’s right, to make money, duh! That makes everything ethical. What a poo-head.

If that isn’t offensive enough The Aussies are eating black people with their pasta and of course people are getting offended.

An Australian publisher is reprinting 7,000 cookbooks over a recipe for pasta with “salt and freshly ground black people.”

Penguin Group Australia’s head of publishing, Bob Sessions, acknowledged the proofreader for the Pasta Bible should have picked up the error, but called it nothing more than a “silly mistake.”

The “Pasta Bible” recipe for spelt tagliatelle with sardines and prosciutto was supposed to call for black pepper.

“We’re mortified that this has become an issue of any kind and why anyone would be offended, we don’t know,” he told The Sydney Morning Herald for a story printed Saturday.

“We’ve said to bookstores that if anyone is small-minded enough to complain about this … silly mistake, we will happily replace (the book) for them.”

And of course there is always more of people making a big deal out of nothing.  There has been a BIG brew-ha-ha over a crucifix of a well endowed Jesus at St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church in Oklahoma.  I thought it was just one of those find the hidden object games, Catholic style.

Artist Janet Jaime modeled the art after the San Damiano Cross:

From the Artist:  “I admit that I was never a really devoted Catholic during the time that I identified myself as a Catholic. But I did learn the tenets of the faith and found a place in my heart for Jesus’s teachings, which were about love and acceptance and taking care of one another (I had a seriously hippy priest, can you tell?). Maybe because my mind tends not to go into the gutter when contemplating the sacrifice of Jesus’s crucifixion–and the symbolic weighty acceptance of the blame for all our sins–I just saw this as “mighty Jesus with six pack abs” rather than “Jesus with an enormous and exposed member”. I, apparently, am in the minority” Read Full Story

Churchgoers are outraged over a crucifix in a Catholic church they say shows Jesus with exposed genitalia.

Janet Jaime is the artist who designed the crucifix hanging in St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church. She was unavailable for comment, but her husband said critics are misinterpreting a common religious icon.

“This isn’t just a subjective drawing. This is a historical icon of the church,” said Reggie Jaime, husband of Janet Jaime, an Oklahoma City iconographer commissioned by the church to design the crucifix. “I can’t help what you see in things, or she sees in things, or anyone.”

The church’s pastor, Father Phillip Seeton, referred questions Wednesday to the Oklahoma City Archdiocese.

Monsignor Edward Weisenburger said he has no problems with the crucifix and referred specific questions back to Seeton.

Critics of the crucifix take issue with what appears to be a large penis covering the abdominal area.

The crucifix is about 10 feet tall and hangs above the church’s altar. It is unclear how long it has been there.

Molly Jenkins said she attended a funeral at the church recently and immediately noticed the crucifix.

“I was appalled at the sexualization of Christ,” said Jenkins, who is not Catholic.

Actually, I find it more than a little appalling that in an age where the church points fingers at everyone other than themselves over inappropriate sexual behavior towards children, adults are working themselves into a tizzy over a work of art that reflects where their brains are more than the work itself.

This is so F-ing ridiculous – I wonder if I would have even noticed this on my own.  Do they have any idea how many penises and boobs are in the Vatican?

Naked people everywhere: