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Archives for April, 2007
Friday Poem
Posted by John Lynch on April 14, 2007 Requiem When the last living thing has died on account of us, how poetical it would be if Earth could say, in a voice floating up perhaps from the floor of the Grand Canyon, “It is done.” People did not like it here. Kurt Vonnegut
Seven Minute Sopranos
Posted by John Lynch on April 13, 2007 About the only thing I bother to make time to watch on the TV is The Sopranos which has just entered its final season of nine episodes. Here’s what has happened in the previous seasons:
Vonnegut dead at 84
Posted by John Lynch on April 12, 2007 This is sad. Kurt Vonnegut has died. Pessimist, existentialist and damn great writer. As he said in God Bless You Mr Rosewater: “Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s…
Dammit! It is OUR job to frame!
Posted by John Lynch on April 10, 2007 There is something bitterly ironic about a muppet like Dembski complaining about the Nisbet & Mooney piece on “framing science.” His complaint is, after all, coming from a man who accepts money from a group who coin glib phrases like “teach the controversy” and talk about “a new science for a new century”. Sheech!