Thursday, February 16, 2012

Now I Understand...

... why celebrities eschew faux awards on the Internets. It's all a fraud, a beauty contest, and no one knows who is doing the actual "voting" -- or if there really is actual "voting"...

Otherwise how do you explain the absence of me, "your humble narrator"*, from the American Humanist Association list of the Top Ten Sexiest Male Celebrity Atheists...

Brad Pitt? Okay. Antonio Banderas? Okay. Johnny Depp? Well, yeah, okay...

Hmmm, on further review, I am kind of vaguely aware that I am now officially in my dotage, and I am at the age where I do have to make a decision which can have long term -- indeed, lifelong (such as it is) -- consequences: Am I a geezer, a codger, or a coot?

Jeez, it's so hard to make a choice!

But I digress... Or I think I do... Or something...

Oh, and to ensure that I and the American Humanist Association are not seen as "sexist", here is a list of the Top Ten Female Celebrity Atheists

[* Literary and/or film buffs will recognize this as one of the catch-phrases of Alex of Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange. Read the book if you haven't seen the film; see the film if you haven't read the book.]