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"Imagine a Star Trek convention,

Posted on October 20, 2010
"Imagine a Star Trek convention, but older." An article describes the cutting edge of social evolution which are a group of aging and graying socially autistic nerds at an Atheist Convention. Or as Mark Shea calls it, "the Convention of Napoleon Dynamites with a Mean Streak...

Forgotten Histories. Interesting

Posted on October 19, 2010
Forgotten Histories. Interesting stuff.  Mark Shea points to this link on the history of the Parthenon and the tendency of Modernity, i.e., The Enlightenment and Thereafter, to suffer amnesia or a decided lack of curiosity about the thousand year period between the Classical Age and itself...

"Country Music and the Value of

Posted on October 19, 2010
"Country Music and the Value of the Elderly." Lydia McGrew at "What's Wrong with the World" posts the following Country Music tearjerker as part of her observation at how easily we in the Culture of Death seem to view the elderly - our parents, grandparents, us eventually - are a buden...

If only lawyers could marry. Lawyer

Posted on October 19, 2010
If only lawyers could marry. Lawyer Sentenced in Child-Sex Case By Brandon Ortiz Daily Journal Staff Writer A Los Angeles lawyer arrested during an Internet child-sex sting was sentenced by a state judge Monday to six years in prison, according to the district attorney's office...

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Great Moments in Modern Romance. Man

Posted on October 19, 2010
Great Moments in Modern Romance. Man immolates self in working through "issues" with ex on C-Span. It's a sad case of "nerd love" gone wrong.

Fighting Pseudo-Knowledge - Hurricanes

Posted on October 19, 2010
Fighting Pseudo-Knowledge - Hurricanes and Global Warming. Failed predictions of imminent apocalypses have a way of slipping our mind once the season passes, which leaves the failed prophets with no net damage to their reputations, e.g, Paul - "Humans will be eating Humans in the Global Famine of 1985" - Ehrlich...

Like Richard Nixon wearing a suit

Posted on October 18, 2010
Like Richard Nixon wearing a suit at the beach, the Democrats this year are working too hard at passing for normal. What is with the Democrats this year?  It seems that all of their fears are projections about what they would do if given the opportunity...

Let's Play "Spot the wife of the

Posted on October 16, 2010
Let's Play "Spot the wife of the crazy Holocaust-denying Fundamentalist Muslim Leader." Professor Jacobsen at Legal Insurrection links to this Huffington Post article about fashion and style in Iran. But the real "added value" to this post is in one of the comments to Professor Jacobsen's post: Diggs said...

The New Media is Watching the Old

Posted on October 14, 2010
The New Media is Watching the Old Media. This is an interesting clip showing how the Chicago Old Media works to protect Rahm Emmanuel from hard questions.  Watch the whole thing to see how reporters shield Emmanuel from the WIND reporter and actually yell at the reporter at one point...

"You're too stupid to understand

Posted on October 14, 2010
"You're too stupid to understand our successes," the Vice President explained. According to the Canada Free Press: According to Biden, the issues involved are simply too complex for the ordinary man and woman to grasp. As reported, in part: Democrats aren?t running on the administration?s accomplishments like health-care and financial-regulatory overhaul and the stimulus because ?it?s just

New Age Bullshit Alert. The Chinese

Posted on October 14, 2010
New Age Bullshit Alert. The Chinese "word" for crisis does not mean "danger" and "opportunity." Another bit of pseudo-knowledge goes down in flames.

Two Cheers for Capitalism. After

Posted on October 14, 2010
Two Cheers for Capitalism. After reading Jack London's Socialist fantasy, "The Iron Heel," I needed this. From Daniel Henninger: Short answer: the Center Rock drill bit. This is the miracle bit that drilled down to the trapped miners. Center Rock Inc...

Rachel Maddow gets pwned on her

Posted on October 13, 2010
Rachel Maddow gets pwned on her own show... ...by a rookie citizen politician. I guess one fair question would be whether Rachel Maddow's show is a corporate in-kind contribution to the Democrats. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Outrage of the Day. Insider Trading

Posted on October 13, 2010
Outrage of the Day. Insider Trading is legal if you are a Congressional aide. Fire them all.  Let God sort it out.

Relics. 2 Kings 13: 20 Elisha

Posted on October 12, 2010
Relics. 2 Kings 13: 20 Elisha died and was buried. At the time, bands of Moabites used to raid the land each year. 21 Once some people were burying a man, when suddenly they spied such a raiding band. So they cast the dead man into the grave of Elisha, and everyone went off...

"Nationalizing" Your 401K - Is

Posted on October 12, 2010
"Nationalizing" Your 401K - Is this true? According to this article: Democrats in the Senate on Thursday held a recess hearing covering a taxpayer bailout of union pensions and a plan to seize private 401(k) plans to more "fairly" distribute taxpayer-funded pensions to everyone...

Television is better than the Pill

Posted on October 12, 2010
Television is better than the Pill for reducing the population. This Foreign Affairs article is sounding the alarm about the graying of the world's population. Here's an interesting observation: Surprisingly, this graying of the world is not by any means the exclusive result of programs deliberately aimed at population control...

A Radical Black Woman Speaks Truth

Posted on October 11, 2010
A Radical Black Woman Speaks Truth to Power. Notice how she demolishes the "it is better to kill black babies than permit them to be born in poverty" argument?  Also, her road to conservatism happened when she discovered that in 1960 - before LBJ - 80% of black children were born to two-parent households?  Or that the conservatives don't run the inner cities, liberals do...

If only Presbyterian Missionaries

Posted on October 11, 2010
If only Presbyterian Missionaries Could Marry.... Via Mark Shea: "An Independent Abuse Review Panel investigating reports of physical and sexual abuse in church boarding schools has documented 30 cases of abuse from 1950 to 1990. Most of the abuse involved the children ? now adults ? of Presbyterian missionaries who served overseas for predecessor denominations of what is now the Presbyterian

If only teachers employed by African

Posted on October 11, 2010
If only teachers employed by African Governments could marry.... Newsbusters compares the media silence surrounding the recent revelation of massive on-going sexual abuse of Kenyan students, and the cover up of same,  reported by the Kenyan government to the publicity surrounding the stories of the decades-old and far less extensive abuse in the Irish Catholic church...

Canon lawyer dissects Mainstream

Posted on October 11, 2010
Canon lawyer dissects Mainstream Media propoganda piece for women priestettes. Canon Lawyer Ed Peters on a short and shoddy article. Let?s see just how many things a single AFP article on ?women priests? can get wrong. I quote the original article in black, with my remarks in red...

Don't forget that today is "Bash

Posted on October 11, 2010
Don't forget that today is "Bash Columbus" Day.... ...and here is a wingnut from Huffington Post to prove it. I particularly like the part about the "gentle Arawaks" who were so peaceful that they had no weapons, despite the fact that they lived in a part of the world known for cannibalism...

Hal Lewis - Professor Emeritus

Posted on October 10, 2010
Hal Lewis - Professor Emeritus and 67 year member of the American Physical Society - resigns from APS because of corrupt Global Warming Scam. Professor Emiritus of physics Hal Lewis of the University of California at Santa Barbara described the reasons for his resignation:

'Che Guevara; Guerrilla Doofus

Posted on October 10, 2010
'Che Guevara; Guerrilla Doofus and Murdering Coward." Humberto Fontova recollects a Che that defies the media-approved fiction:  "When you saw the beaming look on Che's face as the victims were tied to the stake and blasted apart by the firing squad," said a former Cuban political prisoner Roberto Martin-Perez, to your humble servant here, "you saw there was something seriously, seriously wrong

The Lifestyles of the Vapid and

Posted on October 09, 2010
The Lifestyles of the Vapid and Famous. From Wiki's entry on the World War II spy thriller "Shining Through" starring Michael Douglas and Melanie Griffith: It was while working on this film that actress Melanie Griffith became aware, for the very first time in her life, that Germans had done bad things to Jews during World War II, and she was quite outraged about it...

Curmudgeon. John Derbyshire describes

Posted on October 08, 2010
Curmudgeon. John Derbyshire describes a failure of the free market.

Al Sharpton and Reality Collide. Sharpton

Posted on October 08, 2010
Al Sharpton and Reality Collide. Sharpton tells his audience that they are lazy bums who just sit down and complain and let everyone else do the hard lifting for them. Isn't that his job?

Ha! Maybe Justice Brier will decide

Posted on October 07, 2010
Ha! Maybe Justice Brier will decide that this makes anti-Christian "art" "unprotected" under the First Amendment. Mark Shea links to this article about a woman truck driver taking a crowbar to blasphemous art. A truck driver from Montana is accused of destroying a piece of artwork at the Loveland Museum and Art Gallery depicting Jesus involved involved a sex act...

From the "Truth is Stranger than

Posted on October 07, 2010
From the "Truth is Stranger than Fiction because Fiction has to be Plausible" File. 31 year old woman poses as a teenage boy in order to date teenage girls: A 31-year-old woman who posed as a teenage boy, cutting her hair and using male aliases, so she could date teenage girls pleaded guilty Wednesday and was sentenced to six months in jail...

"Quine is dead, too." William

Posted on October 07, 2010
"Quine is dead, too." William Lane Craig explains how the discipline of philosophy has been transformed in the last 40 years by a new generation of Christian philosophers.

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