A man responsible for intellectually retarding hundreds of thousands — if not tens of millions — of people from all around the world is getting ready to die. Unfortunately he’s not checking out fast enough and is busily legacizing himself in the form of a “museum” and “library” that was designed by an amusement-park firm. No, […]
Archive for May, 2007
Death Penalty. Now.
MSNBC reports that a “top-ten” spammer has been arrested. Robert Alan Soloway is accused of using networks of compromised “zombie” computers to send out millions upon millions of spam e-mails. Kill him. Immediately. Fuck the trial, fuck the defense and fuck the appeals. Get him on his knees, put a Glock to the back of his […]
Evidence of Life After Death
that I would accept as being incontrovertible, to be found at The Perry Bible Fellowship. If something like that actually did happen, it would rock my skepticism. If it had happened when I was ten, it would have rocked my world.
Geekin’ Out with the MtG Arizona Theme Deck
I was able to assemble a bit of a cast of characters for the Magic Arizona theme deck I mentioned last week when commenting about (among other things) solifuges. They inspired me. These creatures are known locally as sun spiders; others might have heard them called camel spiders. They acheived demi-legendary status a while ago amid wildly inaccurate claims […]
Arachnid Serendipity
I’d intended today to post on my Arizona-themed Magic deck (mentioned here), but something happened last night that changed my mind. Wednesday we hosted a presentation on venomous creatures of northwestern Arizona — the talk was about the A-listers with poison, such as Western diamondback and Mohave rattlesnakes, Gila monsters* and scorpions. That night (last night), while […]
Ham Boned
Ken Ham’s Creation Museum is holding its grand opening on Memorial Day — 28 May 2007 — amid much hoopla, hype and general stupidity on the part of dozens of gullible “journalists” and tens of thousands of slack-jawed ignorami. As part of the festivities, PZ suggested putting together an anti-Ken blogabration. My entry follows the […]
T’row Yo Hands in th’Air and Say Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!
I finally got my paws on one this weekend, and have spent a hell of a lot of time since then just hangin’ out and playin’ with my Wii. You might have gathered a while back that I’m a dedicated Nintendo system user. You’d probably be wrong about that, actually; I never owned the original NES. My first actual Nintendo purchase […]
Life’s Way: Offense and Defense in the Mojave
Shelley Batts (a ScienceBlogger) posted some comments on different kinds of stings, along with a scale for rating which hurt the most. That led me to muse on some of my own experiences with our local pointy objects. Arizona’s territory — on the western side — is pretty much entirely comprised of the Mojave Desert. With […]
One down…
…28% to go. Jerry Falwell has, at last, died. One less baptard to herd the fold. Don’t despair; I’m sure some other useless sack of shit will slime in to replace him within 24 hours. UPDATE: PZ posted this interview excerpt between Anderson Cooper and Christopher Hitchens. Hitchens describes Falwell’s brand of religion as “an actual danger to […]
Suck a Fag, Go to ‘R’
The MPAA is the “authority” in the US which decides what kind of rating a film should get: G, PG, PG-13, R, NC-17 and the notorious X range. Over the years since Jack Valenti founded the organization in 1968, some of its decisions have been baffling and arbitrary. For instance it’s not uncommon for close-up shots of […]
Duplicity is Color-Blind
Al Sharpton to Don Imus shortly after his “nappy-headed ho’s” comment: You could be fired and the nicest guy in the world, but you ought to be fired. Al Sharpton on the subject of Mitt Romney: As for the one Mormon running for office, those who really believe in God will defeat him anyways. You know […]
Strange Beliefs and Odd Superstitions
What is it that separates superstition from belief? What makes the difference between myth and faith? To me, it’s a question of duration and quantity. The longer a superstition persists, the more akin to belief it becomes; the more people who believe in a myth, the closer to religion or faith it is. The biggest reason an Israelite accepts JHVH […]
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