I don’t know what happened, but over the last few days I’ve been SWAMPED with hundreds of spam comments a day. Oh yeah…I turned MT-Blacklist off. And I guess my sneaky moving the default Moveable Type comment form to a different page name isn’t good enough to defend against those clever spammers. So, until I [...]
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Example of Bad Capitalism, or Bad Anarchy?
:: rogerebert.com :: reviews: “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room” It’s stories like these that make me desperately want to get a degree in economics–so I can have a truely educated opinion about the viability of Market Anarchy. Read this excerpt from Ebert’s review: “Strange, that there has not been more anger over the [...]
READ MORE »Stark Finger of Justice
CNN.com – Woman who claimed to find finger in chili arrested – Apr 22, 2005 The “Wendy’s” finger lady’s been arrested, possibly in connection to the severed finger which seems to NOT have come from the distribution line of chili makings to restaurant. Also seems as though the lady has a history of filing lawsuits. [...]
READ MORE »I’m Moving To Canada…
…or some other “1st World” modern country with a better educational system and mature social behavior than the US. CNN.com – Aggressive parents a growing problem for teachers – Apr 14, 2005
READ MORE »Hatred Must Be Silenced, Truth Can Be Twisted
CNN.com – Conservatives counter ‘Day of Silence’ – Apr 13, 2005 How disgusting is that. Students begin a grass-roots movement to bring attention to the abuse gay youths suffers. So conservative Christian adults create a movement to put the first one down. Is it just me or does that make the conservative movement appear to [...]
READ MORE »The Final Words (for me) on Creationsm vs. Evolution
Stay tuned after my blabbering diatribe for a quote from Carl Sagan’s book “The Demon-Haunted World.” If you want, feel free to skip all my jibberjabber and go right to the quote from him. It’s FAR more important and interesting than anything I have to say. You have to scroll down a while, though. I [...]
READ MORE »Billions and Billions of Demons Haunting the World
Amazon.com: Books: Demon-Haunted World OK, that’s a bad play on a phrase Carl Sagan never actually said (“Billions and billions.”) Anyway, I just got his book “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a candle in the dark” last week. Wow! I love this book. And I’m barely into it yet. If I could require all Americans to [...]
READ MORE »Of Bacteria and Mousetraps
Over on Veritas Center, Mark posted an entry on…uhm, I guess the difference between facts and faith? Which doesn’t really match with the bulk of the post being in defense of Creationism. Or rather, a proponent of Creationism expressing his hole-ridden beliefs in a staged “interview” format. http://www.hunsakers.net/blogger/2005/04/of-faith-and-facts.html Anyway, here’s my reply, which I think [...]
READ MORE »Melts in Your Mouth, Not in Your Jedi Death Clench
MSNBC – M&M’s characters go to the ‘dark side’ Funny and cool. =) Tasty too.
READ MORE »You’ve Got to be Kidding Me – Red Pen Too Mean?
CNN.com – Red ink falling out of favor with teachers – Apr 4, 2005 They can’t be serious. “Red writing (of teacher’s grading of school papers), they said, was ‘stressful.’” Oh poor, poor little Johnny (‘s mom.) Red ink makes me feel all stressy-wessy and like I’m being judged or something. Get over it! You [...]
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