Picking My Brain

I just saw one of the more bizzare things I’ve seen in a while.  I was catching up on the back episodes of The Colbert Report and I saw the one from Nov. 2 where Stephen interviewed Penn Jillette of Penn and Teller fame.  As far as I can tell, here is the transcript of the segement that I found amusing.  They were discussing Penn giving away the secrets of how some of the most popular magic tricks are done.

SC: “Why would you do that?  Why would you want to break the hearts of little children who want to beleive that there is magic in the world?!”

PJ:  “Which camera is on?”  Looks around until he finds the camera, then looks straight into it.  “There is no Santa Claus!  The Tooth Fairy is your mother and your father!  There is no Easter Bunny and no God!  Sorry!”

So I’m assuming it was Comedy Central  who decided to bleep out all of the words that I italicized.  I think this is kind of weird.  If some child is still up watching television at 11:30pm, then chances are they don’t have much innocence left and already know this.  I guess I never realized how sensitive an issue it was.

But here’s the bizzare part.  You may have noticed that I did not italicize God.  That’s not a mistake…it wasn’t bleeped!  So it could be offensive to say that Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny don’t really exist, but it’s not offensive to say that God doesn’t exist?  I don’t get it.

I tried to find a clip, but YouTube doesn’t have it, and I couldn’t find it in a Google search.  It’s nothing earth-shattering, just something that made me sit up and go “HUNH?!”

So that’s all for now, I’m working on finding some clips for another post I want to do.  Some of the political ads that I’ve seen recently have got me all riled up.  But for now, I have to get some sleep.  It’s quarter to 2 and I need to get some sleep.  We’re going over to Meg’s tonight to celebrate Sue’s (Ben and Meg’s mother) birthday.  I’m up so late as it is because I still had to decorate the cake.  I did some experienting with some new techniques.  It would have been pretty I think if I had thought it out a little more first.  I used fondant for the first time, and ended up with a seam down the  middle of the cake that I couldn’t blend.  The corners are kinda bad too.  But practice makes perfect, so hopefully the next one I make will be better.  I’ll post a picture or two of it tomorrow so you can be witness to my latest disaster.

Good night!