The Indigestible

So now we know (and are shocked, I’m sure, to learn) that the “big­foot” “car­cass” was actu­ally a mon­key suit on ice. It’s not the hoax that’s really the story here, though; it’s that the hoax­ters seemed to believe they’d be able to get away with it. One of the two men in the fraud is a sher­iff, and […]

My sec­ond blo­gaver­sary passed on the 16^th! I’m always so damned incon­sid­er­ate. Not only did I for­get — I didn’t even get me any­thing. What an ass.

…it should prob­a­bly be Buddhism. In the face of right-​​​​wing fun­gel­i­cal squeak­ing about trans­gen­dered indi­vid­u­als and the bath­rooms they should or should not be per­mit­ted to use, a school in Thailand has actu­ally built a sep­a­rate WC for its trans­gen­dered stu­dents. What I sit in awe of is not the fact that the bath­room was built; nor is […]

I deny after­life, rein­car­na­tion or rebirth. But… I think I really am a Buddhist after all. Because, you know, those four truths work, make sense; and the path just seems rea­son­able. Besides, how hard is it for an athe­ist to align with a “reli­gion” that rejects the exis­tence of a soul while at the same time affirm­ing the value […]

It’s all over the wire today that there are quan­ti­ta­tive dif­fer­ences to be found in brain devel­op­ment between kids who have been diag­nosed as ADHD and those who have not. A lon­gi­tu­di­nal study by NIMH and McGill University seems to show that nearly 225 kids aged 6 to 16 have less dense neu­ronal struc­ture if they’ve also […]

just proves I need to look into that Guitar Hero thing all the kids seem to like. Because, god­fuck­i­tall, I could so play this. And sing it. Yeah, kick your hair­less lit­tle asses right into next Tuesday. ==== Load up on guns and bring your friends It’s fun to lose and to pre­tend She’s over bored and self […]

Fogerty at his best. Pure clean CCR. Yeah, more run­ning. But why not? Jesus, these guys were good. Jesus, these guys were good. ==== Whoa, thought it was a night­mare, Lord, it’s all so true. They told me don’t go walkin’ slow, the devil’s on the loose. Better run through the jun­gle. Whoa, don’t look back to see.

The sec­ond pret­ti­est song I think New Order has ever done. The gui­tars, the gui­tars espe­cially, the guitars.

Vezzosi said pre­vi­ous research has indi­cated the hands of the Apostles in the paint­ing can be sub­sti­tuted with the notes of a Gregorian chant, though so far no one had tried to work in the bread loaves. …com­ing from an arti­cle wherein an Italian musi­cian dis­cusses his uncov­er­ing of musi­cal notes in da Vinci’s Last Supper.

John Couey has been sen­tenced to death. We can expect appeals, of course, and this one might test the sys­tem a bit. If there’s any­one who’s a can­di­date for state-​​​​ordered killing, though, I think he’s it.

From the Department of Meaningless Coincidences: One in four adults read no books at all in the past year, accord­ing to an Associated Press-​​​​Ipsos poll released Tuesday. It’s not as obvi­ous as you might think. The story goes on to detail some of the demo­graph­ics. The 25% of self-​​​​admitted annual illit­er­ates does not, in fact, […]