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
A Library Containing One Book
Published by May 31st, 2007 in You Must be F***ing Kidding and Reality Trumps 'God'. 1 CommentMSNBC 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 head […]
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.
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Geekin’ Out with the MtG Arizona Theme Deck
Published by May 25th, 2007 in General Foolishness and Wild Wild Life. 5 CommentsI 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 […]
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 […]
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 fold […]
T’row Yo Hands in th’Air and Say Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!
Published by May 21st, 2007 in General Foolishness. 1 CommentI 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. […]
Life’s Way: Offense and Defense in the Mojave
Published by May 16th, 2007 in Wild Wild Life. 7 CommentsShelley 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 […]
…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 […]
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 […]
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 I’m an atheist […]
Strange Beliefs and Odd Superstitions
Published by May 9th, 2007 in Reality Trumps 'God', O, Pine With Me and One Thousand Words. 0 CommentsWhat 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 […]
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