Archives for August 2005
Beating the ACLU, Delinking Instapundit
Khorosho, comrades, nothing takes one’s mind off tragedies of epic proportions - here and abroad - like a genuine, multi-blog, internecine blog kerfuffle.
Briefly, Stop-the-ACLU blog publicly de-linked Instapundit (always a good way to start a blogfight). Instapundit responded by linking to his de-linker (a type of blog-jujitsu reserved […]
THE ONION - Google Announces Plan To Destroy All Information It Can’t Index
“Our users want the world to be as simple, clean, and accessible as the Google home page itself,” said Google CEO Eric Schmidt at a press conference held in their corporate offices. “Soon, it will be.”
The new project, dubbed Google Purge, will join […]
NYT: Teaching of Creationism Is Endorsed in New Survey
I’m not going to rant and rave about this. The wide support for creationism in the U.S. is nothing new.
But I will note the problems of polls and polling. The literal statement gaining 42% agreement was “living things have existed in their present form since […]
Rachel Sawyer finds that the woman who captured and posted the flasher pictures has been disparaged.
Sadie gives those who were surprised a “fistful.” (No surprise, there, eh?)
Smallholder at Naked Villiany reports on the unrepentant “wrong, but right” Terri-bloggers.
Tom Hanna has a counter-offer for Hugo Chavez. Shades of Salome and John the Baptist!
FLOOD AID UPDATE: Here are some places you can donate to Hurricane Katrina relief:
American Red Cross
Catholic Charities is involved, and probably has lots of resources to draw on in the heavily Catholic New Orleans area.
Austin Bay is recommending Episcopal Relief and Development.
Here’s a link to Mennonite Disaster Services. The Sanity Inspector says […]
Lake Ponchartrain Pours into City
The waters of swollen Lake Pontchartrain poured into this sunken city today through a gaping hole in a storm-damaged levee, as emergency workers labored to stanch the flow and used boats and helicopters to rescue hundreds of people stranded on rooftops.
City officials were moving their government out of […]
Huffington’s Toast » not Jayson Blair - Romance Novelist -
“Cindy Sheehan probes the meaning of forbidden love. ”
Click and see (insert internet laughter warning of your choice).
It’s gottah be Allah. (And Goldstein isn’t much of a P’shopper.)
Clenched Fist Salute: Little Miss Attila
for Article on Corruption in the awarding of College Scholarships in Yemen
Also the thugs beat him bad for four hours, threaten to cut out his tounge, shoot at him, threaten to throw him off a cliff, and threaten his kids if he discloses the incident or continues to document the rampent corruption among the very […]
Wow!
OMG … Maria Sharapova is gorgeous … oh yeah .. tennis …
She’s 6 foot, 2 inches tall. 130 pounds.
The TV says 1-0. Is that games or what?
“Dinner? … umm … yeah, okay, but I’m doing this serious blogging thing, a very important news-worthy sporting event.”
Sons’ friend: “Sharapova … let’s watch. … She is […]
AiG: Arguments we think creationists should NOT use
Answering in Genesis (AiG) is a well-thought-out Creationist website. Wholly wrong, but well-thought out and at least carefully researched. The site points out that using worn-out, discredited arguments hurts the Creationists’ own cause!
Among the arguments that AiG recommends that Creationists NOT use are:
‘Evolution is just a […]
Kathy, at Big Cat Chronicles, compares the ones in the bush to the ones on the net..
Good hunting!
I believe … in the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Yes, I have been touched by His noodly appendage. I am a born-again (or perhaps just re-heated) Pastafarian.
I realized the power of the Flying Spaghetti Monster on my recent vacation to Saranac Lake:
Read more of His Truth.
We have evidence that a Flying Spaghetti Monster created the universe. […]
Creationists Threaten UC
I want all my ID-buddies, all Creationist commenters, all Discovery Institute fellow-travelers to read the following article.
“Oh, no, we’re not trying to impose our ideas. Heaven forbid. We’re just good old scientists in white lab coats struggling to advance the frontiers of knowledge. We have no political or religious agenda.”
A group […]
Don’t Drink The Koolaid: This Might Explain A Few Things
Were dinosaurs merely an adolescent exercise in excess?
Clenched Fist Salute: Llamabutchers
Evolution is science. Intelligent Design is belief. What’s the difference?
One key difference is ‘falsifiability,’ the application of a test that could demonstrate that an idea is false. Beliefs are not falsifiable. A simple ‘non-falsifiable belief’ might be the following: “I was kidnapped by aliens at birth and all sensory input, memories, etc. that I think […]
