Epsilon Clue

This is the hundredth entry in this weblog. Wheee!
First post!

Remember the “War on Christmas” that John Gibson and Bill O’Reilly wag-the-dogged up out of nothing, using a mixture of three parts persecution complex, two parts paranoia, and one part batshit insanity?
And have you noticed the
War on Easter
that they’re now brewing up out of that same cauldron?
(In case you missed it, it was
started last year
by [...]

Remember this article from The Onion?:
DESPERATE VEGETARIANS DECLARE COWS PLANTS
LAS VEGAS — At its annual national conference Saturday, the American Association of Vegans and Vegetarians released results of a detailed in-house study determining that the common beef cow is actually a plant, 100 percent fit for vegetarian consumption.
“Contrary to what was previously thought, the cow [...]

So I hear we as a country now have a brand shiny new credit limit debt ceiling. Nine trillion dollars. Or 9e12 as nerds write it.
Allow me to establish some facts before I get to my main point:

Today, gold costs $550.80 an ounce.
One gram of gold can be beaten into a sheet with an area [...]

Chris Doyle has enough time on his hands to build a
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
out of Legos.

(Or: Life Imitates Logic Puzzle)
Lately, to measure out water for coffee, I’ve been filling whichever mug I intend to drink from, and pouring it into the coffee maker. That way, I know there’s the right amount.
This morning, I was making coffee for the drive in to work, and noticed that I had poured coffee from [...]

So I took a glance at the web server log, and found that my old article
How Not to Embarrass Yourself In an Argument With an Atheist somehow managed to make its way to http://del.icio.us/popular/.
So take a load off and stay a while. There’s beer and sodas in the fridge.
Oh, and a lot of people commented [...]

I wrote earlier
about my dismay at finding out just how cheap some of the whores on Capitol Hill are. Rasmussen Reports
has collected some data
on what people think congressmen cost.
Half of all Americans believe it takes a contribution of at least $50,000 to influence a Congressman or Governor. That includes 27% who believe the price of [...]

I got stuck debugging someone else’s Perl code today, and it was chock-full of the sorts of things that annoy the piss out of those of us who know better.

Andrew Rowell at ID In the UK
writes:

The basic articles of faith for a methodological naturalist go
something like this:
We have found excellent naturalistic explanations for many
phenomenon [sic] in nature.
Therefore
we believe every phenomenon in nature will have a naturalistic
explanation.
Therefore
we make it a strict rule that science is exclusively the study of
possible naturalistic explanations for what can be [...]