Archives for November, 2007
The 1920s. It was a sad, sad time in America. All the biologists got together and, inspired by Darwinian writings, embarked on a campaign to sterilize those they perceived as unfit, the campaign known to us as Eugenics. From Eugenics grew other evils, such as Planned Parenthood, Modern Evolutionary Biology, and The Nazis.
In Genesis 4, we see specific reference to herdsmen and farmers as distinct groups, represented by Abel and Cain, respectively. God indicates a preference for the results of herding over planting, and the sibling troubles that ensue result in the world becoming a difficult place to farm, and humans becoming more nomadic, as herders. This…
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Media Matters reports that during last night’s CNN special Campaign Killers: Why Do Negative Ads Work?, anchor Campbell Brown said: “General David Petraeus made his reputation taking on insurgents in Iraq. But when he came to Capitol Hill in September, he was confronted by American insurgents, a liberal anti-war group called MoveOn.org.” [source]
From Geekology, who comments: The Orgasmo Clock wakes you up in the morning to the invigorating moan of a woman having an orgasm. Which is pretty freaking awesome if you ask me. It costs $25. I don’t need one though, because I almost always wake up to a woman having an orgasm. Unfortunately it’s my…
Which in this case would be that an intelligent designer created life, or some such drivel.
Hat Tip: Cosmic Variance Go to Cosmic Variance to also see Huckabee talking to God… Plus a thoughtful discussion of this nonsense.
Headline: Poll finds more Americans believe in devil than Darwin
Hot off the presses from PNAS, we have a paper on ancient jade exchange in Southeast Asia. From the abstract: We have used electron probe microanalysis to examine Southeast Asian nephrite (jade) artifacts, many archeologically excavated, dating from 3000 B.C. through the first millennium A.D. The research has revealed the existence of one of the…
Yet Another Cutie: Sharp and Tappin Technology (STTech) is readying two PCs based on Via’s recently introduced pico-ITX motherboard. The picoPC1 and picoPC2 measure as little as 5 x 3.4 x 1.5 inches, and feature separately available cases fashioned from billet aluminum, according to the company. [source]
PZ Myers at Pharyngula examines this question in an entirely different case. This is the case of 14 year old Jehovah Witness Dennis Linberg. Dennis died on Wednesday night at a Seattle area hospital because he refused to accept a life saving transfusion on religious grounds. This is, indeed, a parent’s worse nightmare. Your child…
This is the tag line for an article in yesterday’s Minneapolis Star Tribune: Where punishment drifts into abuse is the issue in the case of a father who hit his son 36 times. In this case, the “drifting” occurred because… When Shawn Fraser’s discipline failed to rein in his 12-year-old son, he turned to his…
… But not hungry. That’s probably because I am thirsty.
Morons are so annoying. Even the ones that are just passing by, the ones you don’t really have to talk to. These days I often have lunch in a public dining area where most of the patrons are scientists or geeks, or students learning to become scientists or geeks. The other day two geeky scientist…
The blog Afarensis brings us an amusing yet at the same time disturbing discussion of the Discovery Institute’s Casey Luskin concerns about the reliability of Wikipedia as a source of information for students. This is hysterically funny because of the fact that Casey Luskin and all the others at the Discover Institute are a pack…
12 Days of the War on Christmas (Fox Style)
Genesis 2 ends with Adam and Eve being naked yet not ashamed. In Genesis 3, the Serpent, who is wiser than average, tricks Eve into partaking of the forbidden fruit of one of god’s two magic trees. This results in Adam and Eve recognizing their own nakedness, and compelling them to produce the first clothing.…
The Texas Education Agency’s director of science cirriculum is resigning. Check this out: In documents obtained Wednesday through the Texas Public Information Act, agency officials said they recommended firing Comer for repeated acts of misconduct and insubordination. But Comer said she thinks political concerns about the teaching of creationism in schools were behind what she…
One of my best friends, who shall remain nameless for the present, a scientist, an atheist, a heavily decorated soldier in the war on Christmas, raised two wonderful, brilliant children, on of which being a devote catholic now in training to be a very devote catholic. Like a priest or something. I am a committed…
The internet is a terrorist tool. Apparently, the US House passed a bill that declares it so. This would mean, I assume, that funds and effort will be spent on controlling the Internet, and all bets would be off on things like Constitutional Protections for those of us working, blogging, using the internet to do…
There are still climate change deniers out there, and if you are one, I’d like to take a moment to annoy you with the following story: Nearly 300 cases of chikungunya fever, a virus that previously has been common only in Africa and Asia, were reported in Italy – where only isolated cases of the…
I have a lot of problems with some of the verbiage he uses. But it is all done with a nice English Accent, so he must be a smart guy…
Ancient Microbes; Wolves in Idaho; Birds Going Extinct;
HELLO GREETINGS I NEED YOUR URGENT HELP TO DISTRIBUTE 12.5M USD.TO HUMANITARIAN AND OPHANS.AS I’M WIDOW AND CANCER WOMAN. THIS MY MAIL MIGHT COME TO YOU AS A SURPRISE ANDTHE TEMPTATION TO INGORE IT AS UNSEROUS COULD COME INTO YOUR MIND BUT PL’S CONSIDER IT AS DIVINE AND HELP OUT. THANKS SERENA What do you…
“His cell phone was found in his shirt pocket with its battery severely melted and his chest burned and fractured.” Ouch. Details here.
As New York mayor, Rudy Giuliani billed obscure city agencies for tens of thousands of dollars in security expenses amassed during the time when he was beginning an extramarital relationship with future wife Judith Nathan in the Hamptons, according to previously undisclosed government records. The documents, obtained by Politico under New York’s Freedom of Information…




