April 20, 2010
Religious right to judge: "Shut Up."
April 20, 2010
... often involves partisans flailing about with statistics they don't necessarily understand. Lets look instead at two individual cases.
This: http://wcco.com/crime/elderly.woman.shoots.2.1644974.html is an example of a home owner using a gun to ward off an intruder. But it really isn't, is it?…
April 20, 2010
Just another stupid youtube video ...
Hat tip: Miss Cellania
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…
April 19, 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…
April 19, 2010
Our words: "They fall on the serious and the delerious alike. They fall on the connected and the unhinged alike."
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April 19, 2010
Are you going to be finishing all of that mastodon meat?
Cost of Modern Medicine, Insurance Reform, and Death in the Paleolithic
Two months ago, I fell on the ice, was taken to the hospital in an ambulance, got emergency surgery, and two/three days later was released from the hospital. The…
April 18, 2010
Today is the fifteenth anniversary of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City by Timothy McVeigh with an assist from three others. That bombing was carried out in part as retaliation by McVeigh for a percieved slight at Ruby Ridge in 1992. That bombing is an…
April 18, 2010
Global People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth
Beginning Monday, April 19th, some 15,000 people from around the world along with representatives of 70 governments, mainly from Least Developed Countries, will meet in Cochabamba, Bolivia, for the World People's Conference…
April 18, 2010
It has long been thought that there are linkages between certain viruses and the weather. The flu season is winter (in whichever hemisphere it happens to be winter in) for reasons having to do with the seasons. One early theory posited that the practices of East Asian farmers, as they tended…
April 18, 2010
A follow up on the earlier installment of "As the knee turns..."
.... ouch. Don't day "as the knee turns...."
In the video I showed two weeks ago, I raised my upper leg to the level at which my lower leg more or less dropped of its own accord perpendicular to the ground. I then extended my lower…
April 17, 2010
Somebody is wrong on the Internet, and apparently, it's Greg Laden.
"...Greg. Don't get us wrong, we want to see the Pope (and priests) answer for what they've done,..."
We just want it done OUR way, and not your way. So please sit down and shut up.
Signed,
We'll, we're not going to say who we…
April 17, 2010
Whitney Houston took a car ferry from Britain to Ireland to attend her concert, rather than flying. Barack Obama has canceled his trip to a state funeral in Poland. A very large magical snake protects a canyon in south Africa. These things are connected a lot more closely than you might think.…
April 17, 2010
In his first foreign trip since sex abuse scandals in Europe and the US broke, Pope Benedict has said the Church has been "wounded by its sins".
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The pope did not directly refer to the sex abuse or its cover-up, but it is clear that this is what he meant. And, clearly, the pope has it…
April 16, 2010
Obama pwns little what's his name for asking dumbest question evah.
Oliver North on How To Be a Good American (OMG!)
Djou: Playing Politics with Our Economic Recovery
And finally, .... A handful of political cartoons
April 16, 2010
It is not recommended that you trap and move squirrels. It may be illegal in your state, and since squirrels have teeth and may carry disease, it could be dangerous. But if you MUST trap a squirrel to move it, say, to a point a few blocks away, I suggest using a Havahart trap. Havahart traps…
April 16, 2010
Well, maybe more like tidbits than rants. This is all Linux or ani-Windows stuff, so everyone else you get the clam-hand*.
First, from Linux in Exile we have a discussion of virtual desktops. Virtual desktops, to me, make a GUI computer usable. GUI computers without them suck. Linux has them…
April 16, 2010
There are many versions of Linux, but the two biggies seem to be Debian (on which Ubuntu and many other distributions are based) and Red Hat. Red Hat uses a commercial support model, so it is an example of a very different approach than Ubuntu. Many of the commercial applications of Linux are Red…
April 16, 2010
But you need to go to IDAHO to see it!
April 16, 2010
Which is true:
PZ Myers is a witless wanker who peddles pablum
or
"I shall be no friend to the appeasers" -pz myers
... kind of a false comparison. But the debate is real. This time it's
Massimo Pigliucci vs. PZ Myers
Two people that i like and admire fighting it out over an important issue.…
April 16, 2010
Bachmann's health care claims falter
Bachmann has said the new health care act will unleash a wave of new federal funding for abortion ... contrary to Bachmann's claims, the law doesn't fundamentally change federal policy on abortion ...a Bachmann spokesman has backed off her prediction...
Tea…
April 16, 2010
What next, will we be seeing the CEO of Discovery Channel out harpooning whales?
The media conglomerate Discovery Communications used to be known for their earth-friendly offerings. But they've just paid millions to Sarah Palin to host a "nature" show, despite her decidedly anti-environmental…
April 15, 2010
UPDATE: GO HERE.
UPDATE UPDATE: I no longer have that file, because it is not the most current one. However, people who want to read their Kindle books on their Linux machine need only to use the browser-based Kindle Cloud Reader. It's pretty nice.
There is a Kindle reader application for the PC (…
April 15, 2010
A federal judge in Wisconsin ruled the National Day of Prayer unconstitutional Thursday, saying the day amounts to a call for religious action.
U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb wrote that the government can no more enact laws supporting a day of prayer than it can encourage citizens to fast…
April 15, 2010
On the board? Officer? Opinionated member?
If so I hope you will have a look at this:
Scholarly Societies: Why Bother?
and this:
The American Astronomical Society responds to "Scholarly Societies: Why Bother?"
April 15, 2010
Videos of the so called fireball:
It's funny that it says in the CNN piece, quoting "NASA":
"Air friction heats the meteoroid so that it glows and creates a shining trail of gases and melted meteoroid particles," it said. "People sometimes call the brightest meteors fireballs."
Which, as I…
April 15, 2010
Holy, crap, did you see this??????
Authorities in several Midwestern states were flooded Wednesday night with reports of a gigantic fireball lighting up the sky, the National Weather Service said.
The fireball was visible for about 15 minutes beginning about 10 p.m., said the National Weather…
