Heathen Ministers, a Robotic Squirrel, and a Redneck Mansion
A minister of the United Church of Canada believes that the church needs to get past the whole Jesus thing. She describes Jesus as a "Middle Eastern peasant with a few charismatic gifts and a great posthumous marketing team." While she believes the church should rid itself of the Bible, the Cross, and the whole of its identity, it's not very clear what she would replace it with. She appears to be a proponent of a One World Religion, which would believe everything, and, therefore, nothing. At that point, why not just bring back the Greek gods, or some such? True, she wouldn't believe in any of them, but she doesn't believe in what is supposedly her own religion now. Under the Greek system, you'd have harvest gods for your farmers, vegetartians, and all; fertility gods for couples, or, as we shouldn't judge, any group of one or more persons, or even for those who want to get it on with temple prostitutes (somehow, temple prostitution seems right up this woman's alley (note: I'm in no way saying that she'd be one, just that she'd be sympathetic with such a thing)); sea gods for seafaring folk; and all the rest. At least then, she'd be honest about her heathen ways. Or, perhaps she could strike up a friendship with the ordained Episcopalian minister who is also a Muslim.
Speaking of Christians that are also Muslim, Daniel Pipes has a roundup of some quotes from those who say Barack Obama was a Muslim as a youth in Indonesia. These aren't namesless individuals whispering it behind the scenes, nor political hacks trying to destroy his chances at being President, but actual people who knew him back then, who have been quoted on the record. Given his age at the time (this was at age four through ten, or six through ten, or some such), I wouldn't hold that he was ever a full-fledged follower of Islam. However, it's dishonest for him to deny the past as he's done, assuming the statements from those quoted are correct. Given the number of statements, I'm inclined to believe there's something to them.
Researchers at Hampshire College are trying to get Rocky the robotic squirrel to interact with real squirrels. I appreciate the references to Caddyshack and Rocky and Bullwinkle in the comments section. Incidentally, I finally saw Caddyshack for the first time earlier this year.
Michael Franc has an article that's a must-read for anyone who thinks that the Democrats are the party of the little man and the Republicans are the party of big, bad business men.
We can improve the real estate market if we make mortgages out of corn.
Orson Scott Card has a few things to say about J.K. Rowling suing the publisher of a companion book to her series.
Someone created a video of an Americentric history of war since World War II (inclusive), with the various nations represented by foodstuffs associated with them.
Ohio's Attorney General Marc Dann is corrupt, and has refused to resign (he's a democrat, naturally). It's unclear if he intends to stand by that refusal or is only delaying a resignation until such date as Ohio's governor (another dem) can appoint a successor for the remainder of his term, rather than merely until this fall's election, which will have an election for the post if the position is vacated soon enough. The Cleveland Free Times has some of the seeider details of the rampant sexual harassment in his office. The story has the state chair for the Dems defending Dann, but he has since called on him to resign, with the call also coming from the governor, four other statewide elected officials, and the Dem leadership in the state legislature.
The Top 10 Things environmentalists need to learn. I'd probably add something about an overreliance on, er, questionable science, but it's not a bad list.
There's a website devoted to truckspills.
Dwarf crime is a growing problem. Yeah, I'm a sucker for the headline.
I've always loved sand sculptures. My own abilities, however, are limited to making sculptures of piles of sand.
Propaganda posters are interesting. Here's a collection of World War I propaganda posters from several countries.
A photo of a "redneck mansion." Given the lack of cars on the lawn, I'm inclined to believe it's a set-up.
Some guy has a massive collection of Star Wars toys.
Scientists caught a seal sexually assaulting a penguin. I really don't have anything to say to that.
The Germans have made a smell-phone. As useless tech gadgets go, this is one of them.
Democrats have been using the argument that it would take ten years to get oil from ANWR in order to argue against drilling for over ten years now. Jay Leno has caught on. I've seen several estimates of less than ten years, but that doesn't change the fact that they've been using the argument for longer than the time period it would take to start retrieving oil.
Stephen King has decided to malign the armed services. Jerk.
The New York Times published an article about all those poor rich people facing foreclosure. It turns out that nearly all of them have avoided being foreclosed on, but still -- those poor, poor people.
Cindy Crawford is pontificating on the environment. They claim that Americans use 50 billion plastic water bottles each year, which produced this money quote from Crawford: “Fifty billion in America and only 50 percent are recycled. So that’s like 38 billion that aren’t recycled.” What a spokesmodel.
Speaking of Christians that are also Muslim, Daniel Pipes has a roundup of some quotes from those who say Barack Obama was a Muslim as a youth in Indonesia. These aren't namesless individuals whispering it behind the scenes, nor political hacks trying to destroy his chances at being President, but actual people who knew him back then, who have been quoted on the record. Given his age at the time (this was at age four through ten, or six through ten, or some such), I wouldn't hold that he was ever a full-fledged follower of Islam. However, it's dishonest for him to deny the past as he's done, assuming the statements from those quoted are correct. Given the number of statements, I'm inclined to believe there's something to them.
Researchers at Hampshire College are trying to get Rocky the robotic squirrel to interact with real squirrels. I appreciate the references to Caddyshack and Rocky and Bullwinkle in the comments section. Incidentally, I finally saw Caddyshack for the first time earlier this year.
Michael Franc has an article that's a must-read for anyone who thinks that the Democrats are the party of the little man and the Republicans are the party of big, bad business men.
We can improve the real estate market if we make mortgages out of corn.
Orson Scott Card has a few things to say about J.K. Rowling suing the publisher of a companion book to her series.
Someone created a video of an Americentric history of war since World War II (inclusive), with the various nations represented by foodstuffs associated with them.
Ohio's Attorney General Marc Dann is corrupt, and has refused to resign (he's a democrat, naturally). It's unclear if he intends to stand by that refusal or is only delaying a resignation until such date as Ohio's governor (another dem) can appoint a successor for the remainder of his term, rather than merely until this fall's election, which will have an election for the post if the position is vacated soon enough. The Cleveland Free Times has some of the seeider details of the rampant sexual harassment in his office. The story has the state chair for the Dems defending Dann, but he has since called on him to resign, with the call also coming from the governor, four other statewide elected officials, and the Dem leadership in the state legislature.
The Top 10 Things environmentalists need to learn. I'd probably add something about an overreliance on, er, questionable science, but it's not a bad list.
There's a website devoted to truckspills.
Dwarf crime is a growing problem. Yeah, I'm a sucker for the headline.
I've always loved sand sculptures. My own abilities, however, are limited to making sculptures of piles of sand.
Propaganda posters are interesting. Here's a collection of World War I propaganda posters from several countries.
A photo of a "redneck mansion." Given the lack of cars on the lawn, I'm inclined to believe it's a set-up.
Some guy has a massive collection of Star Wars toys.
Scientists caught a seal sexually assaulting a penguin. I really don't have anything to say to that.
The Germans have made a smell-phone. As useless tech gadgets go, this is one of them.
Democrats have been using the argument that it would take ten years to get oil from ANWR in order to argue against drilling for over ten years now. Jay Leno has caught on. I've seen several estimates of less than ten years, but that doesn't change the fact that they've been using the argument for longer than the time period it would take to start retrieving oil.
Stephen King has decided to malign the armed services. Jerk.
The New York Times published an article about all those poor rich people facing foreclosure. It turns out that nearly all of them have avoided being foreclosed on, but still -- those poor, poor people.
Cindy Crawford is pontificating on the environment. They claim that Americans use 50 billion plastic water bottles each year, which produced this money quote from Crawford: “Fifty billion in America and only 50 percent are recycled. So that’s like 38 billion that aren’t recycled.” What a spokesmodel.
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