Archives for April, 2010
Biblical Obama Bashing
Posted by Greg Laden on April 24, 2010 Biblical anti-Obama slogan: Use of Psalm 109:8 funny or sinister? There’s a new slogan making its way onto car bumpers and across the Internet. It reads simply: “Pray for Obama: Psalm 109:8″ A nice sentiment? Maybe not. The psalm reads, “Let his days be few; and let another take his office.” Presidential criticism through witty…
To cut or not to cut: The question of circumcision
Posted by Greg Laden on April 24, 2010 Men circumcised at birth saying that they prefer being circumcised makes as much sense as a man deaf in one ear extolling the virtues of monophonic sound.
Did Cliff Predict Obama?
Posted by Greg Laden on April 23, 2010 Bonus video:
Lady Duff Gordon’s Letters from The Cape
Posted by Greg Laden on April 22, 2010 Lady Duff Gordon (Lucie) traveled to Cape Town in the 1860s, and chronicled her trip with letters home, which are available from various sources as “Letters from the Cape.” From that volume:
OSSOUS computer code
Posted by Greg Laden on April 22, 2010 This was expected: THE US GOVERNMENT has released open source code that it has been working on. In an unusual move for government transparency, the White House is letting developers get their mitts on its open source code. The US executive branch has been working on its custom code as part of its ongoing efforts…
The Plank’s Constant
Posted by Greg Laden on April 22, 2010 … continued … In the US, political parties have what is called a “platform” which is a list of assertions … “we want this” and “we want that” sort of assertions. The “platform” is made up, quaintly, of “planks” with each plank being about one issue. Like for my local Democratic Farm Labor party unit,…
Arlo Guthrie Falls Through the Ice
Posted by Greg Laden on April 22, 2010 … continued … So, it seems that Arlo Guthrie was hauling firewood or something with his tractor out on his place in western Mass, and he took the usual shortcut across the pond. The pond was too deep for the tractor to drive in unless, of course, it was frozen, as it always was in…
Pete Seeger joins the Nature Conservation Club (NCC)
Posted by Greg Laden on April 22, 2010 … continued The flames were so hot that we could feel it on our faces over 300 feet away as we stood near the corner of Delaware and Whitehall avenues. At first we gawked at the burning factory from about 100 feet away, but a large explosion caused us all to turn and run. But…
Earth Day has special significance this year
Posted by Greg Laden on April 22, 2010 The first Earth Day was a red letter day in the long, hard struggle to make being good to the environment … to the Earth … normal instead of a fringe idea held only by quirky college professors and stoned-out hippies. This year, the first significant health care insurance reform bill was passed and it…
Reminder: Skepchicon in Minneapolis in July
Posted by Greg Laden on April 21, 2010 The venue, Minneapolis, is well chosen as it is very hard to get an earthquake going on this nice stable bit of crust. I know it is a bit early, but I’ll remind you of this now and then … as you are making your plans for the summer, consider attending the Skepchicon track at…
Did you experience McAfee Rebot Syndrome?
Posted by Greg Laden on April 21, 2010 NEW YORK (AP) – Computers in companies, hospitals and schools around the world got stuck repeatedly rebooting themselves Wednesday after an antivirus program identified a normal Windows file as a virus. McAfee Inc. confirmed that a software update it posted at 9 a.m. Eastern time caused its antivirus program for corporate customers to misidentify a…
New Anti-Evolution Pro-Fundy Christian Book, Reviewed
Posted by Greg Laden on April 21, 2010 C.E. Cupp is Ann Coulter before the bottle-blond crap is poured on her head, but maybe slightly less vile.1 She just came out with a new book: Losing Our Religion: The Liberal Media’s Attack on Christianity, which explains everything you had wrong if you were a progressive liberal in the education business. The book even…
I wonder if the Pope knew about this one …
Posted by Greg Laden on April 21, 2010 Well, since he has that direct god connection and all, he must have…
Religious Hate
Posted by Greg Laden on April 21, 2010 … crazies ask for death to South Park authors …
Fox News Edits Out Jon Stewart Beating Bill O’Reilly?
Posted by Greg Laden on April 20, 2010 Pope-linked Cover-up of Catholic Church Sex Scandal Gets Worse
Posted by Greg Laden on April 20, 2010 A FORMER vicar-general in the archdiocese of Munich has claimed that he was pressurised last month into taking the blame for a mistake made 30 years ago by the then Archbishop of Munich, Joseph Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict), concerning the case of a paedophile priest. Fr Gerhard Gruber has now said he did so only…
Unconnected interesting items.
Posted by Greg Laden on April 20, 2010 Nearly Extinct Tree gets new lease, Elephants invade South America, Python on Wall Street.
Evolution Texas Style
Posted by Greg Laden on April 20, 2010 H/T: Cara
A nice gesture for open source
Posted by Greg Laden on April 20, 2010 There will be a Linux based iPad equivalent (I hesitate to say clone for obvious reasons), and it will have touch-technology on the ‘screen.” Mostly, it will have this technology because when people started touching their computers … that way … Linux developers fashioned software so it could be done in Linux too. But, nonetheless,…
Stop extremist takeover of textbooks
Posted by Greg Laden on April 20, 2010 Dear Texas Board of Education, I have substantial concerns that the social studies standards proposed by the Texas State Board of Education are not in the best interest of students and are not based on the recommendations of respected academics in the field. These standards place our children in a predicament. The board should reassess…
Aieeeee!! No Volcano Monitoring!!!! Aieeeee!!!!
Posted by Greg Laden on April 20, 2010 Lest we forget:
Mitch McConnell You Lie!!!!!
Posted by Greg Laden on April 20, 2010 GOP Leader Lies About Bank Reform Bill on CNN… Party line vote does not equal partisan, if one party predetermines a nay vote on ever single freakin’ bill. Moron. And so on. Anyway, enjoy the ranting.
Tony Perkinstsz: You leave our Religumunt alone!?!?!
Posted by Greg Laden on April 20, 2010 Religious right to judge: “Shut Up.”
James Randi on Psychic Fraud
Posted by Greg Laden on April 20, 2010 Regulation of Private Gun Ownership in the US …
Posted by Greg Laden on April 20, 2010 … often involves partisans flailing about with statistics they don’t necessarily understand. Lets look instead at two individual cases.
New Math
Posted by Greg Laden on April 20, 2010 Just another stupid youtube video …
Guru Dead
Posted by Greg Laden on April 20, 2010 Keith Elam (July 17, 1966 – April 19, 2010[1]), better known by his stage name Guru, was an American rapper and member of the hip-hop duo Gang Starr. Born in the Boston neighborhood of Roxbury,[2]. The name Guru is a backronym that stands for Gifted Unlimited Rhymes Universal and the less often used God is…
Rembering Columbine
Posted by Greg Laden on April 20, 2010 On April 20th, 1999, at the Columbine High School in Colorado, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, shot to death 12 students, one teacher, and themselves. Twenty-one others were wounded by them, and additional individuals were wounded while escaping the massacre. Columbine . They also injured 21 other students directly, and three people were injured while…
OK City in Perspective: Clinton on Maddow
Posted by Greg Laden on April 19, 2010 Our words: “They fall on the serious and the delerious alike. They fall on the connected and the unhinged alike.” Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
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