I vow today that I will never allow some blinkard, narrow-visioned, elitist Test-Driven-Development (TDD), Agile or XP (EXTREEEM PROGRAMMING!!!11one1eleventeen) cock-sucker push me around again. I also vow that I will fight these religious zealots with their pigheaded belief that TDD is the end-all, be-all solution to everything, until my last dying breath.

Seriously, not since... well... never.. have I felt so strongly about a particular technical methodology. I may rant about the cults of elitism surrounding git or vi, but they can't even remotely approach the level of elitism and self-assuredness of correctness in spite of ample contradictory evidence as the TDD crowd. For those practitioners and proselytizers of TDD, you're either with them or you're some sort of mentally retarded misanthrope who writes shitty code and probably eats babies.

What is TDD, and why do I hate it so? Well, let's explore the subject a bit deeper, shall we?

Really, I have nothing to say. No clever, snarky remarks on my part are appropriate here. Just read.

I love Indiana. We have such rational and sane people here.

In case you haven't heard, a group of Carmel mothers are trying to get Victoria Secret to change the underpants on the store mannequins. They complained that the dummies were too racy. Isn't Indiana, and Carmel in particular, great? We have women like Lori Baxter there to protect us and our children from plastic dolls dressed in lingerie. Because there's nothing more evil in this world than suggestively posed plastic faux women wearing lingerie inside a lingerie store. Heaven forbid a store displays what they are known to sell, and have sold for 30 years.

So, to recap, and to get this straight, a Christian Fundamentalist mother, one Lori Baxter, goes to a Victoria Secret, a store that even the most clueless person would know is a store for women's lingerie, finds lingerie that offends her... and then complains to the Simon organization [company that owns the mall], Mayor Brainard and Victoria's Secret [corporate] to get said lingerie replaced with something that offends her less.

Boggles the mind, no?

I mean, I'm sure if I went into the Life Way Christian Store, or the Creation Museum, I'd find a hellova lot to be offended by. In fact, I'm sure I'd be a lot more offended than Lori Baxter was in Victoria's Secret. But the thing is, I wouldn't be surprised by it. I wouldn't be going into these places and then be shocked that they had idiotic things promoting Intelligent Design while at the same time attempting to thrash real science. What kind of a moron goes to a Victoria Secret and doesn't realize there's going to be scantily clad mannequins?!