http://indigestible.nightwares.com Missives From the Reality-Based World Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:10:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In yet another example of the perverse sense of humor of the universe, an Indiana Wiccan stabbed herself in the foot with a sword while conducting a good-luck ritual. MSNBC shares with us the story of Katherine Gunther, of Lebanon, IN. While performing the ceremony under the light of a full ... http://indigestible.nightwares.com/2008/07/23/mustve-been-bad-karma/ "Calorie Lab" is a website that ordinarily publishes more or less useful commentary on diets and diet plans, generally skewing to the reality-based side, but this last week they published a very credulous workup of Stanley Burroughs and his "cleanse" diet plan here. The article presents the diet in a more ... http://indigestible.nightwares.com/2008/07/19/calorie-lab-posts-lies-defends-itself-by-attacking-the-messenger/ Facebook? Friendster? ThingyOfTheWeek? Fie. Atheist Nexus. Do it. I did.Share This http://indigestible.nightwares.com/2008/07/19/in-which-i-officially-become-a-member-of-social-networking/ Or not, perhaps. Delia Derbyshire was apparently responsible for the mix of Ron Grainer's Dr. Who theme in 1963, but damn, she did some other innovative, amazing work in the analog era. Hit this link and listen to her piece under the 'Timeless' header; or just hit this. That was last week, ... http://indigestible.nightwares.com/2008/07/19/grandmother-of-dr-who/ Yes, another reply to a riposte from James Lileks of the Minnesota Star-Tribune. If it keeps up at this rate I might have to add another category. Thursday he was in rare form, and opened with a nice salvo: Another day in the Land of Inversion, where the obvious is not an ... http://indigestible.nightwares.com/2008/07/19/on-the-quantity-of-methane-in-unicorn-emissions/ Oh, those terrible liberals and their too-free plays on words. Fox News, the leader in unbiased nonslanted Actual Journalism, reported that while Jesse Jackson was saying he wanted to cut off Barack Obama's nuts, he also used the other n-word when referring to negroid negro dark black people. The horror, the ... http://indigestible.nightwares.com/2008/07/17/breaking-black-man-refers-to-blacks-as-niggers/ It's surprising sometimes what you can lapse. Remember Bomb Pops? The red-white-blue multi-veined popsicles peddled from the back of the ice cream truck? Well, okay, maybe not — and this isn't a post about childhood nostalgia nor longing for the Days of Old When Things Were So Much Better, gag. Several months ... http://indigestible.nightwares.com/2008/07/09/in-which-i-rediscover-new-order/ Much hay in the liberalosphere has been made in the last few days over Barack Obama's apparent willingness to forward the Bush administration's "faith-based" charity program. There are distinct tones of outrage and betrayal, and while I most certainly agree that the Fed putting money into any religious charity is ... http://indigestible.nightwares.com/2008/07/02/slouching-toward-bethlehem/ George Carlin died Sunday.Share This http://indigestible.nightwares.com/2008/06/23/damn-2/ So CNN is sucking Bill off. Some say his wealth and famous opportunism are reminiscent of the robber barons of yore. Yet here is a man who has set a goal to eradicate malaria. Rich as he is - his net worth is an estimated $50 billion - you can't call ... http://indigestible.nightwares.com/2008/06/22/gates-bill-gates/