The crew at Panda’s Thumb has been taking turns dissecting, chapter by chapter, a ludicrous work of “nonfiction” by Jonathan Wells titled The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design, which is meant to be a scholarly work on the “debate” regarding the fact of evolution. We can do a close reading on just the title; the […]
Archive for November, 2006
Weeks Passed: 3; Lessons Learned: 0
Three weeks after the Republicans got spanked for being powermongering, belligerent assholes, Newt Gingrich came out against freedom of speech at a party … honoring those who exercised freedom of speech. Gingrich, speaking at a Manchester awards banquet, said a “different set of rules” may be needed to reduce terrorists’ ability to use the Internet and free […]
Creepulous.
The Times says “Black Friday” was good for malls. Interspersed in its article are comments such as: The clock struck midnight. Then the mall struck back.* And Emily Spendlove, 35, drove 45 minutes to wait in line outside the Fashion Place Mall on Thursday night, skipping sleep “to be part of the excitement.” Am I the only one […]
Orwell or Dick? Orwell or Dick? Decisions, Decisions…
As in Philip K. Dick, author of the short story “Minority Report”, which got made into a very unfortunate movie of the same title.* Before we start getting smirkily self-righteous about the fact that it’s happening in England, let’s remember that it’s our nation which keeps redefining the purpose — indeed, the target — of our eternal […]
Nice.
So Friday’s my birthday; I’ll be 39. That doesn’t matter. What matters is silly, foolish, egotistical. When I was working at HOTS, no one remembered the day, though I signed others’ cards. Year after year I was forgotten. It got to be a running joke. “What … we forgot again?” “…Yeah.” Got some recalls here and there, like in […]
To Michael Richards
This is not meant to be a white man apologizing for bigotry in another white man. It is meant to help a sick man find a way out of his disease. —— I saw the explosion on the net, like so many others. I saw the anger, the rage, the bizarre and incomprehensible fury that just seemed to keep […]
Crystal Balls and Magic Carpets
At last, another post in the UFnO category, a continuation of my attempts at explaining why I’m atheistic regarding the likelihood of aliens ever visiting us, or we them. I use the term atheistic deliberately; I’m inclined to think that belief in extraterrestrial intelligence visiting Earth is precisely that — it’s a faith, essentially a religion, something that is […]
A Vertiable Smörgåsbord of Duh
Smacks and slaps to every cretin in Shiloh, IL, who’s crapping whole yellow apples over the eh-maybe children’s book And Tango Makes Three, a book controversial enough that it even has an online teaching guide to cover its delicate discussion about… Oh … yeah, and smacks and slaps to the book’s authors, Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell, […]
Ho, Ho … Huh?
Big shocker that I use clipart — if someone’s already done the work, why take it on myself? Today I was looking for some cute line art of Santa Claus, so keyworded “santa” in the clipart site I use. At first I was a little surprised to see the occasional chili pepper in there, or adobe house — even a bighorn […]
Cancer Vaccines Revisited
The other day I pontificated on the subject of a lung cancer vaccine, but I don’t think I did a very good job of expressing what I was thinking. I came off a little coldhearted, almost seeming to suggest that those who are afflicted with lung cancer might deserve it, which isn’t what I intended to say. So I’m going to try again, hopefully doing […]
Wrong!
One of the things I’ve pointed out over the years is that the Biblical literalist who says homosexuality is “wrong” because of Leviticus is overlooking Jesus, who said explicitly that he was bringing a new law — and who never said anything for or against homosexuality. I stand corrected. In a recent post, Pam discusses a talking Jesus […]
Damn.
I’m not going to use this story against our military. A US Army soldier has pleaded guilty to raping a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and helping murder her and her family. But you can be sure the Qaeda will. They’ll damn us all for the actions of a few — which is sort of how people like Coulter, […]
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