The latest Skepticality podcast has an interview with widow of the late Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan. She helped co-write some of his books, and has a new book out: The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God. The interview on the Skepticality podcast is bad audio quality, but it is [...]
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Rumsfeld quitting as defense secretary – CNN.com
Free at last, free at last! Thank science almighty *wink* we’re free at last! Rumsfeld quitting as defense secretary – CNN.com Oh happy day! Oh happy day! Celebration time, come on! Do a lil dance…. Happy happy joy joy! Now the only thing better to make this a true Christmas Miracle is charges of war [...]
READ MORE »Hope for America!
Huzzah! There is hope for America! I won’t have to move to Canada now. =) Americans have finally gotten sick of the lies and deceptions, the corruption, a failed war for oil, and have voted in a Democratic House, a majority of Democratic governors, and possibly a Senate. Don’t get me wrong, I’m no Democrat. [...]
READ MORE »No Blood for Oil!
He finally admitted it. We’re in Iraq, if not originally (which we were) then at least at the moment we’re still in Iraq because of oil. Bush Cites Oil As Reason to Stay in Iraq I mean, c’mon. Was there ever a question? The bush regime is filled with oil barons. Even Condoleeza Rice is [...]
READ MORE »Sad, Sad Misdirected News Focus
Keeping an eye on voting news, one of the most important days in a pseudo-democracy, and what suddenly pops up at the top of CNN’s Web site in an alarming red banner usually reserved for news like “US Airstrikes Iraq” and “Clinton Impeached”? This:
READ MORE »Ripples in Space-Time
“All of space and time is able to ripple.” — Dr. Pamela L. Gay A FANTASTIC podcast: The Astronomy Cast The latest episode: Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity If you want to understand the Theory of Relativity explained to the ordinary lay-person and don’t have a copy of Stephen Hawking’s “A Brief History of Time“, [...]
READ MORE »Hypocrisy: Karma’s a Bi**h
Last week I posted: Wow. A Must-See for Everyone! I linked to the Richard Dawkins’ documentary regarding “The God Delusion,” and he interviewed mega-church televangelist and buddy to the Bruce Chapman, head of the very ironically named The Discovery Institute (a thinly veiled political strong-arm organization for anti-science,) and James Dobson of the “our business [...]
READ MORE »Presidential Words
Interesting link on BoingBoing today. Someone has compiled and analyzed all the words used in Presidential speeches throughout U.S. history and built a tag cloud with a sliding timeline gauge. http://chir.ag/phernalia/preztags/ (It may load slow, probably because it’s being hit hard after being BoingBoinged. Almost like being SlashDotted.) The word “terrorism” standout like a solar [...]
READ MORE »Somehow No One is Accountable
Nearly every day I read Snope’s What’s New page to find out the latest urban legends and hoax e-mails. I saw today one about a supposed e-mail being sent around the brother of a former Arizona Cardinals football player who was killed serving in Iraq, a letter very critical of the administration. It’s true. It’s [...]
READ MORE »Fear Over Reason; Gotta Love It
Cool blog post over at DavidGlagne.net: False Authority Syndrome A tale of how the administration’s culture of fear-mongering over actual, work on security (and helping to fix the roots of the cause of what we fear) is exemplified. I love the parts about people making up laws they want to enforce with their assumption of [...]
READ MORE »Political Medievalism
Phil Plait of BadAstronomer.com posted a blog today that gets my ire up. Reprinted here without permission: White House tampering of science, part ∞ How many times can I use the same headline? Evidently, it will be useful as long as we have the current White House. Investigations into the Bush Administration’s spinning, folding, and [...]
READ MORE »Beer Review: Salvator Doppel Bock
Test FileSalvator Doppel Bock From: Paulaner Salvator Thomasbraeu AG in Germany Style: Doppelbock overall: 2.15 appearance: 4 | smell: 2 | taste: 1.5 | mouthfeel: 2 | drinkability: 1.5 (A) – Deep, rich amber. nearly opaque. A dirty amber. The head was a nutty tan–very nice. A minimal amount of lacing, but it stayed awhile. [...]
READ MORE »No Mountains Have Been Moved, No Dead Raised
A recent post on Debunking Christianity delves into the concept of faith. Faith vs. trust: A Faithable Reason Here’s an interesting bit: Look, Christians, you want to win the debate? Every time? The format is simple. The place is easily determined. Offer to hold the debate at the City Morgue. Allow the non-believer to go [...]
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