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June 28, 2004
When Arnold Schwarzenegger was running for governor of California, I spent a great deal of time laughing at the reaction of the conservative rabble to his campaign. It was hilarious watching so many of them swoon at the thought of Ahnold as a Republican governor, and even more so watching them…
June 28, 2004
You know, when I first started blogging I refused to do these lists that made the rounds of blogs. What changed? I have no idea. But if it's good enough for my buddy PZ and the Little Professor, it's good enough for me. So herewith, the ABCs of me:
Act your age? Actually, I think I'm finally aging…
June 28, 2004
The Moonies have issued a press release hammering us evil bloggers for our coverage of the Moon coronation story. They seem to be a bit tweaked that so many of us have dared to call Moon the nutjob that he is. Get used to it, kids. It's only gonna get worse. Here's the funny thing about the new…
June 27, 2004
The Moon Coronation story, which I covered here previously, has finally been picked up by the mainstream media in the last couple weeks. The New York Times, Washington Post, ABCNews, BET, the Pittsburg Post Gazette and the Boston Globe have all picked up the story. The articles range in their…
June 25, 2004
Okay, time for a basketball break. First and foremost, leave this page immediately, go read the Sports Guy's draft diary, and remind yourself why this guy is the best sportswriter on the planet today. This exchange alone cements his status:
9:33 -- Utah takes 7-foot-5 Pavel Prdzswsbqzpdne, who…
June 25, 2004
As a follow up to the previous post on Reverend Moon's insane claims and his recent coronation ceremony, let's take a look at how well connected Moon is in American politics.
http://www.au.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5684&abbr=cs_
June 25, 2004
From a USA Today chat:
"I do not believe the homosexual community deserves minority status. One's misbehavior does not qualify him or her for minority status. Blacks, Hispanics, women, etc. are God-ordained minorities who do indeed deserve minority status."
There's something bizarre about this…
June 25, 2004
Too many idiots, too little time. My monthly award is going to have to be a weekly award now. Let's pray it doesn't become daily. John Scalzi has a very amusing post about Todd Pierce that links to another one, written by Teresa Nielsen Hayden. That post concerned Mr. Pierce, a professor at Clemson…
June 23, 2004
Timothy Sandefur says this is the hot thing to do on blogs, and being the fashionable guy I am, I'll play along. It's a list of the top 100 grossing films of all time, with bold for the ones you saw in the theater and italics for the ones you saw on video, along with a few comments:
1. Titanic (…
June 21, 2004
Ben Affleck has won the California State Poker Championship, held at Commerce Casino. This is a major poker tournament, not a little local event, with a $10,000 buyin and a field that includes some of the best pros in the world. He's been playing serious poker for several years now, and has been…
June 21, 2004
I didn't know that the men's movement had blogs until I received an e-mail this weekend from Vic (aka David) with a link to one. The subject of the blog entry, much to my surprise, was evolution and the ID movement. Is there some connection between the men's movement and the ID movement? Many of…
June 20, 2004
I've been doing some reading today of two of my favorite living essayists, Stanley Crouch and Nat Hentoff. They are both intellectuals, cultural observers, literary critics and, primarily, jazz critics. Both have written for the Village Voice. Both are also relatively controversial figures, for…
June 19, 2004
It's reached the point where there are so many idiots in the world that I may have to make this a weekly award rather than a monthly one. Perhaps even a Moron du Jour, starting with the imbeciles at probush.com. These knuckle-dragging cretins have come up with a Traitor List, which begins with this…
June 19, 2004
On May 16th, Lori Haigh, the owner of an art gallery in San Francisco displayed this painting by Guy Colwell, depicting the abuse of Iraqis at the Abu Ghraib prison:
(If picture does not show up, go here to see it)
Within 2 days, someone threw eggs at the gallery window, dumped trash on her…
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 this…
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…
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 wanted to attach myself to the…
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…
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:
Ed Brayton at…
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…
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…
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…
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 with…
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…
June 14, 2004
An interesting anniversary is coming up. July 11, 2004 will be the bicentennial of the duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton. A fascinating event in American history, especially considering the fact that Aaron Burr was the sitting vice president at the time of the duel. Burr blamed…
June 12, 2004
I've spent some 15 years involved in the evolution vs creationism dispute, as any reader of this blog knows by now. Contrary to what some of my fellow evolution defenders say, all creationists are not "created" equal. They fall into quite a wide range of competency, intelligence and honesty. At the…
June 11, 2004
There are few things quite as amusing as watching ID advocates pretend that ID is not about promoting a particular religious view. It's just fun to see them wiggle and dance when they get caught up in this web of pretend objectivity. A perfect example of this is Casey Luskin, of the IDEA club, a…
June 11, 2004
John Wilkins, fellow contributor to the Panda's Thumb, has begun his own blog, Evolving Thoughts. John is a brilliant guy, with a PhD in history and philosophy of science. And like virtually every Aussie I've ever known, he's extraordinarily funny. His blog should be both fun and informative, so…
June 10, 2004
Ray Charles has died at the age of 73. While Reagan's death will obviously gain more attention, and rightfully so, Ray's death has far more emotional impact on me. He was a music legend who recorded classic songs in a number of genres - gospel, blues, soul, jazz, even country. Van Morrison, another…
June 10, 2004
ABC has pulled Jimmy Kimmel's show off the air for a day because he commented on his show, in a joking manner, that if Detroit wins the NBA championship, the fans in Detroit will burn the city down. Jesus Christ, someone needs a humor transplant. He's right, the people in Detroit (and most other…