31 Aug
It’s amazing the things you trip over while cruising the ‘net. Consider this site. There’s some fun stuff here, some good stuff here, and some downright crazy stuff here. For example, go to this page. You’ll find the following passage:
What are angels ? According to the Bible they are Gods messengers of light. But what [...]
31 Aug
…Why Bathroom Sex is So Hot.
The Salon newsletter popped up in my gmail files within the past hour with the aforementioned article by James Hannaham. It’s a pretty interesting essay on the allure of public restroom schwinging and whether or not such acts make a guy Teh Gay or Not Teh Gay, as Senator [...]
31 Aug
…Why Bathroom Sex is So Hot.
The Salon newsletter popped up in my gmail files within the past hour with the aforementioned article by James Hannaham. It’s a pretty interesting essay on the allure of public restroom schwinging and whether or not such acts make a guy Teh Gay or Not Teh Gay, as Senator [...]
31 Aug
Mark Knopfler is my favorite all-time guitarist. I never indulged in this habit myself, although I grew up around musical instruments and could at one point play drums and keyboards reasonably well and dance a thousand miles an hour.
My dad played in a band and was a semi-pro at the guitar. He could do Joe [...]
30 Aug
Imagine that you were elected Grand Poobah of the Municipality of Shatton, a place notorious for being plagued throughout the years by dangerously high levels of human waste in the water supply, in its public parks and pools, in the produce sections of supermarkets, everywhere. Something must be done, and one of your first tasks [...]
29 Aug
It’s not a sophisticated hypothesis, but it has a certain plausibility to it: Both marathoners and household accidents related the amateur synthesizing of methamphetamine have become increasingly prevalent in the past 10 or 15 years. Assuming that these phenomena are weakly linked at best is — though sensible — far more mundane than exploring possible [...]
28 Aug
Remember “Opine Editorials,” the group of antihomo teeth-gnashers who conducted a clumsy incursion on the Refuge back in April when I — still gaily unaware of certain New Hampshire-based cousins of theirs — posted about the N.H. House passing a civil-unions bill (one that was was soon passed into law)?
We got an e-mail yesterday from [...]
28 Aug
PZ Myers has unearthed maybe the nine trillionth bad attempt in the history of Christian apologetics to try to reconcile the two differently sequenced accounts of Biblical creation, a task logically equivalent to trying to demonstrate that for certain positive values of A, the equations “A + B = 0″ and “A < B" are [...]
27 Aug
The New York Times ran an article last week about “Magic of Consciousness,” a symposium organized by a pair of researchers at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix and featuring Teller, James Randi, and other prestidigitators specially selected not merely because of their knack for wowing and fooling people, but owing to their interest in [...]
27 Aug
Over the weekend I remarked that the dolts at GraniteGrok.com had not only evaded this week’s round of simple questions about their stance on gay unions but had corrupted their position further by posting a clip from an indefatigably profane former rocker and right-wing icon. Now, with tear-jerking but predictable irony, they have slid further [...]
27 Aug
“”The belief that natural elements created matter requires the same faith creationists have that God created the earth. Unfortunately, since no one was around, this neither truth-claim is truly verifiable. It was only a short time ago that humans fabricated this faith that the elements evolved without a creator. While a belief’s life span is [...]
27 Aug
It’s probably time to cut myself off. I do not need to renew my ongoing fascination with the shambling wreck of self-congratulatory ignorance, hypocrisy, and gleeful cowardice I’ll call Meet the New Groksuckers (to account for both their blog and their radio show) every time they say or post something stupid. I’ve established several times [...]
27 Aug
Ever efficient, the citizens of Great Britain are reportedly killing two health birds with one stone by tacking on an extra day’s worth of calories each week in the form of alcohol. I doubt they’re alone in the industrialized world in this regard. (The linked article mentions something called “alcopop,” which sounds like either the [...]
26 Aug
revere at Effect Measure is always a pleasant read thanks to imbuing his well-founded positions with strength and emotion (which we can all do) while tempering their delivery with just the right level of subtlety, irony and restraint (which would be nice to be able to do). Then again, he’s had like 250 years to [...]
25 Aug
Although the GraniteGrok.com crew was aware that I had no intention of calling into today’s edition of Meet the New Press, their putrescent weekly gabfest and de facto blog companion, I figured they wouldn’t be able to help mentioning the Chimp Refuge anyway. I listened to the podcast earlier tonight, and sure enough, the host, [...]
25 Aug
Earlier this week, CNN ran a three part, six hour series called God’s Warriors. I haven’t heard or read anything about it didn’t know about it at all until intrepid commenter Bill from Dover tipped me about it today.
The network is running encore presentations this weekend at 9 p.m. EDT each evening; last night’s presentation [...]
25 Aug
I’m glad there are people out there with as much free time as I have, and friends of mine who can track those people down.
25 Aug
This is argument is being sincerely presented on, you guessed it, one of the forums within the official Major League Baseball site. Someone named “Preacher54″ (aren’t they all, though?), posting on the “State of the Redsox.com Nation” board, writes:
our nation is sick, this guy kills some dogs and may do time or lose his job. [...]
25 Aug
This is argument is being sincerely presented on, you guessed it, one of the forums within the official Major League Baseball site. Someone named “Preacher54″ (aren’t they all, though?), posting on the “State of the Redsox.com Nation” board, writes:
our nation is sick, this guy kills some dogs and may do time or lose his job. [...]
25 Aug
Runners have a tendency to track their workout times. This can be both misleading and dangerous if you don’t figure in the effect of weather, a trap both newbies and experienced runners can fall into. Consider long runs.
25 Aug
Runners have a tendency to track their workout times. This can be both misleading and dangerous if you don’t figure in the effect of weather, a trap both newbies and experienced runners can fall into. Consider long runs.
24 Aug
So you’ve got your Harry Potter fandom, your Buffy the Vampire Slayer fandom, your Pirates of the Caribbean fandom and your Star Trek fandom.* Isn’t it about time for an Evolutionist/Rationalist fandom? Well, isn’t it? Check out my answers to the meme** that’s sweeping the fan-i-verse!
Note added in proof: The responses to [...]
23 Aug
This post wraps up the superflous exercise I started this morning — exploding the latest antigay jibber-jabber from Judy at Granite Grok.
Amazingly, in the same post she opens with the uninspiring all-caps announcement that she’s never blogged about a more pressing issue, Judy — relating having witnessed in her churchy past the “deconversion” of numerous [...]
23 Aug
This post wraps up the superflous exercise I started this morning — exploding the latest antigay jibber-jabber from Judy at Granite Grok.
Amazingly, in the same post she opens with the uninspiring all-caps announcement that she’s never blogged about a more pressing issue, Judy — relating having witnessed in her churchy past the “deconversion” of numerous [...]
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