Dispatches from the Creation Wars
Archives for June, 2004
The Tiltboys
Posted by Ed Brayton on June 17, 2004 In my earlier post, I mentioned Perry Friedman as a member of the infamous Tiltboys and it reminded me that I should write something about them and get the word out about some hilarious reading you can do. If you have any interest in poker at all, I guarantee that you will enjoy reading about…
WorldNutDaily Weirdness
Posted by Ed Brayton on June 17, 2004 Sometimes one has to wonder if there are any editors at the WorldNutDaily at all, given the number of what can only be described as bizarre and incoherent screeds they publish on a regular basis. Here’s the latest one, by Craige McMillan. It’s an absolutely incoherent mishmash that leads from what appears to be a…
The Artist Formerly Known as Madonna
Posted by Ed Brayton on June 17, 2004 Madonna has decided that she now wants to be known as Esther. And her reason: “I was named after my mother. My mother died when she was very young, of cancer, and I wanted to attach myself to another name,” she said. “This is in no way a negation of who my mother is. I…
Poker Report and an Amusing Aside
Posted by Ed Brayton on June 17, 2004 Two words sum up last night’s poker: high variance. It was truly feast or famine night. I think there were more showdowns that ended with “Holy shit!” than ever before, as good hands got beat by great hands that were slow played time and time again. It started for me almost immediately with pocket kings…
Persecution Complex?
Posted by Ed Brayton on June 16, 2004 This is just odd. When I spent a month writing for the Detroit News blog, one of the other bloggers there was a woman named Libby Spencer. She has a blog called Last One Speaks. When I hosted the Carnival of the Vanities a few weeks ago, she left the following post on her blog:…
Interesting New Blog
Posted by Ed Brayton on June 16, 2004 Another cool blog I didn’t know about, discovered because I’m apparently on their blogroll and someone linked to this page from theirs. The Pryhills are a rather unconventional couple – Christian, conservative, and lesbian. In particular, see this post about the difficulty one set of parents are having accepting that their daughter is lesbian. It…
How ’bout them Pistons?
Posted by Ed Brayton on June 16, 2004 As long time readers of this blog know, basketball is the one sport I really am crazy about, college basketball in particular. But over the last 2 weeks, I’ve been glued to the TV watching the Pistons do what everyone, including me, assumed was impossible – beat the Lakers for the NBA championship. At the…
Taking Things Literally
Posted by Ed Brayton on June 15, 2004 After writing that post about the Moonies and wondering how on earth there could be millions of people who believed something so monumentally absurd, I came across this poll from ABC News: “I’m going to ask about a few stories in the Bible. Do you think that’s literally true, meaning it happened that way word-for-word;…
The Lunatic Reverend Moon
Posted by Ed Brayton on June 15, 2004 On July 4, 2002, the Unification Church (a.k.a. the Moonies) took out a full page ad in newspapers all around the world that just has to be seen to be believed. I’m going to reprint parts of that ad here, skipping all of the statements by all of the “underlings” of the great religions, along…
King George III
Posted by Ed Brayton on June 14, 2004 In the ongoing controversy over the legal advice and position of the Bush administration regarding torture and abuse of political prisoners, this is an article that everyone should read. Stuart Taylor is not a bomb-thrower by any means, and he spends the first part of the article defending the administration against some of the criticism…