Via SkepticReport.com: Bob Riggins’ Things Creationists Hate My favorite part (so far): [The Founding Fathers] make creationists appear, shall we say, less than intellectually competent when they toss out a howler like, “George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were creationists!” It makes one want to knock on their heads and call out derisively, “Helllooo! Anybody home […]
file under: essential viewing More like “required viewing”, Gunner Palace is a documentary about the U.S. Army in Baghdad during 2003-2004 – – following the invasion (“bomb it”) and during the occupation (“build it”). What you get is the perspective of those U.S. Army soldiers during this period. Interesting the way that morale flakes and […]
Via Boing Boing: 12:29 Evacuee Irvin Skinner: We have a curfew. We’re being kept inside after 11pm. Forced to stay inside. They threw guns on everyone. Said ‘come inside or your out of here’. Shoved guns, pointed them at adults. I’m a grown man, I have rights. This is an instituion to us, it’s like […]
So apparently, the Bush administration does not acknowledge the existence of death. Were Bush himself to fall victim to a broccoli choking, I’m sure there’d be no cameras allowed at the State Funeral. Maybe not even a State Funeral. They’d just prop up the corpse in the Oval Office and start the campaign for a […]
As if all the other crap about FEMA going around wasn’t enough, turns out their site won’t let you file a report w/o being on Windows and in IE. Time to write an open letter to the US govt that boils down to: “If your agency sites can’t support open standards, we might need to […]
Via BBC news: “They have M-16s and are locked and loaded. These troops know how to shoot and kill and I expect they will,” Kathleen Blanco said. And we wondered what Mayor Nagin meant when he said: “People are dying here.”
Via Smart Mobs – there’s a petition going around to get Google to stop posting ads for essay writing services. The ethics of this are a touch complicated, no? On the one hand you have the argument that this undermines education. Sure, OK. I’ll buy that. But where’s the free market? Is this the same […]
F_D converts to Pastafarianism! Hallowed be His Noodly Touch. Give his Noodly Majesty equal time in Kansas!
Via a BBC.co.uk article: …Buerk has said “almost all the big jobs in broadcasting are held by women” who “decide what we see and hear”. All I could think to say was: “!?!?!?” The former Nine O’Clock News presenter told the Radio Times: “Life is lived in accordance with women’s rules” and men are now […]
Guess what America? I got a fever! And the only prescription… is more cowbell!