Silent Servants...

Silent Servants...

... of the Used, Abused, and Utterly Screwed Up.

A Secular Franciscan looks at the world...
with a more jaundiced eye than ever...
and lots of ellipses for you to fill in the missing text...
(with thanks to Thomas S. Klise for the title)



Wednesday, September 24, 2008

So, why is this here?



It's just my take on this, of course, but it's pornographic. This is a photo of some competitive eaters in a competitive eating competition in New York. This event was sanctioned by the International Federation of Competitive Eating. To me, what makes this obscene is that, when a goodly portion of the world goes to sleep hungry each night, and there are people dying of hunger in the world every hour of every day, the first world countries have made a sport of eating. They make money from it and make it into entertainment. Aaaaargh! I'm off to Bedlam!

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