I probably didn’t use the right gender in the subject, but, oh well. =) So last weekend the family and I went to Quebec for my brother’s wedding. Actually, L’isle-Verte which is a small villiage about 20 minutes north of the town of Riviere-du-Loup which is about an hour or so north of the City [...]
READ MORE »Monthly archives for June, 2006
Your 1984 Moment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Technology : Orwell explains that, in the latter part of the twentieth century, technology has been driven by only two things: “war, and the desire to determine against his will what another human being is thinking.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#The_Party : The three slogans of the Party, on display everywhere, are: WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE [...]
READ MORE »No Proof of Ann Coulter’s Brain Exists
Phil Plait at Bad Astonomy blog has a post today called: Ann Coulter: deranged creationist liar? He discusses how Coulter’s new book, Godless, has a section in which she argues against evolution as there is supposedly no evidence for it. In addition to a great analogy involving coctail weenie toothpicks as to why he no [...]
READ MORE »1776: A Fine Year for Rebellions
For Father’s Day this weekend, my wife and daughter gave me a book I’d been wanting since it came out a year ago, and have been keeping an eye out at used book stores for, and trying to remain patient for until it comes out in paperback this fall: David McCullough’s “1776″. I’m trying to [...]
READ MORE »Sycophant Republican Iraqi B.S.
CNN.com – Divided House rejects Iraq pullout date – Jun 16, 2006 I don’t know which pisses me off more: The lies and propaganda and manipulation the GOP and Administration is putting out there, or that people fall for it! the GOP-led House approved a nonbinding resolution that praises U.S. troops, labels the Iraq war [...]
READ MORE »CNN.com – Hawking: Space key to human survival – Jun 14, 2006
Still on a science bent: CNN.com – Hawking: Space key to human survival – Jun 14, 2006 In a connection to my last post: The War on Science Gains More Ground – Welcome to America, Lysenko, the science, a lot of it being repressed by the oil barron Bush administration, shows we’re on a quick [...]
READ MORE »The War on Science Gains More Ground – Welcome to America, Lysenko
Phil Plait over on Bad Astronomy has an entry today regarding a 100% partisan House vote in which all the voting Republicans sent a message that the supression of science for political and ideological reasons can and should continue: House Republicans won’t stop science suppression This is utterly disgusting and downright scary. That such a [...]
READ MORE »For the Love of Being Difficult
Mark over at NewSojourn made a post today: Sojourner: For the Love of Pete…and Paul…and…John…and… regarding his top reasons for loving the Bible. We have a… not a rivalry per se, but we often discuss our rather different views on philosophy and religion in occasionally heated tones. But in that post he makes a comment: [...]
READ MORE »Cell Phone Celebration!
Almost three years ago I bought a cell phone that was real kick-butt, as blogged in: “New Phone, and what I’m listening to” Nokia 6800 Now, it was, and in some ways still is, a great phone. Always clear, almost never dropped a call, a real nice phone. And the best part, they full qwerty [...]
READ MORE »St. Pauli Girl Special Dark
St. Pauli Girl Special Dark overall: 3.05 appearance: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 2.5 | mouthfeel: 2.5 | drinkability: 3 First, I’m wondering if I didn’t enjoy it as well as I could have because the date on my bottle was for next month. I don’t know what the life of one of these [...]
READ MORE »Political Silencing of Science They Don’t Like
Over on Phil Plait’s Bad Astronomy blog, he has an entry: NASA admits Deutsch muzzled scientist In which he discusses how a Bush political appointee as NASA’s press officer intentionally prevented science regarding global warming from being made public. Also, his attempts to insert the word “theory” in all references to evolution on the NASA [...]
READ MORE »The Theocratic Destruction of Democracy
Some rather scary information on the site: Theocracy Watch. This is the site’s thesis: Twenty-five years ago dominionists targeted the Republican Party as the vehicle through which they could advance their agenda. At the same time, a small group of Republican strategists targeted fundamentalist, Pentecostal and charismatic churches to expand the base of the Republican [...]
READ MORE »CNN.com – Senate blocks same-sex marriage ban – Jun 7, 2006
CNN.com – Senate blocks same-sex marriage ban – Jun 7, 2006 Oh thank god! That’s still a pretty close margin, 49-48 with 60 needed to let the bill go on. But the federal government was successfully kept a little smaller today. Isn’t it ironic that the party of “smaller government” keeps wanting to make the [...]
READ MORE »CNN.com – Baghdad targeted civilian killings soar in May – Jun 6, 2006
CNN.com – Baghdad targeted civilian killings soar in May – Jun 6, 2006 Nearly 1,400 murdered civilians in May, rows of severed heads found along highways, I’m so happy we liberated Iraq, and I’m sure so are they. The Iraqi middle class is leaving the country leaving the poor and destitute, the insurgents, and the [...]
READ MORE »Why Gay Marriage is Wrong, Redux
Because of this renewed political uproar for conservative votes, with a thinly veiled religious agenda masquerading as “it’s for the children!” reasoning, I’m reprinting my blog entry: 10 Reasons Why Gay Marriage is Wrong 10 reasons Gay Marriage is wrong: 1. Being gay is not natural. And as you know Americans have always rejected unnatural [...]
READ MORE »The Writing Surges Forward!
I’ve been trying to write (fiction) for years now, and have countless stories begun, including three novels, but have only finished a few short stories. Why? I can’t turn off the editor half of my brain. As I write (fiction) I labor and agonize over evey sentence, every word, every punctuation. So, after anywhere from [...]
READ MORE »Re-experiencing “Titanic”
We just watched “Titanic” again tonight. Anyone who doesn’t cry like a baby at that movie is a cold, heartless bastard. When it first came out, my wife and I together and with various friends saw it 8 times in the theater. Still cry even now. =) Back when it first came out I became [...]
READ MORE »Nietzche, Would Like To Meetchya!
There’s a post over on NewSojourn: “‘Living’ Without God.” Mark there has grouped Nietzche in with a bunch of terrible and evil thinkers like Carl Sagan (my personal hero) and Einstein and Darwin and… Earnest Hemingway?? A lot of conservative Christians bring Nietzche up as villian, but I think it’s mainly because he has a [...]
READ MORE »CNN.com – Bush to promote gay marriage amendment – Jun 1, 2006
CNN.com – Bush to promote gay marriage amendment – Jun 1, 2006 This amendment must not pass. No law that sounds like this amendment should pass. Why? Because it would be tatamount to the government creating a law establishing and enforcing a religious edict. Why? Because there is no reason to prevent same-sex couples from [...]
READ MORE »