Today seems to be the day when a bunch of right-wing fundies all
decided to make themselves look ridiculous in public, seemingly only
to entertain me.
For a while now, Ray Comfort’s weblog wasn’t accepting new comments,
because he had been hired by Examiner.com as their
Creationism Examiner,
and he wanted comments to be posted there.
This morning, however, I found a
post
on [...]
Some bands that were obviously named before Google became the one and only way to find anything anywhere:
ABC
AC/DC
The Band
Foreigner
Genesis
Guess Who
James
Leæther Strip (yes, that’s L, E, A-E ligature)
M
Prince
(The Artist Formerly Known as Prince)
Secret Service
Squeeze
The The
Type O Negative
U2
Wham
Yes
Bands named after places: Boston, Chicago, Kansas, Nazareth, etc.
Bands named after common items: Heart, Hole, Journey, Madness, Ministry, Nirvana, [...]
First, the Telegraph has a
story
about an Indian nun’s book about sex in the church:
The book by the former nun reveals how as a young novice she was propositioned in the confession box by a priest who cited biblical references to “divine kisses”. Later she was cornered by a lesbian nun at a college where they [...]
I’m leading the discussion at today’s Bible Study session with the
Beltway Atheists.
The topic is Homosexuality in the Bible.
I’m attaching my
notes
(also available in
Org mode for Emacs
here).
HB 1009 was recently introduced in the Maryland State House:
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, That
the Laws of Maryland read as follows:
Article — State Government
13—322.
THE SHILLELAGH IS THE STATE WALKING STICK OF STATESMEN AND
GENTLEMEN.
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
October 1, 2009.
If this passes, [...]
Last week on
The Atheist Experience,
a guy named Matt Slick from
CARM.org
called in to present the
Transcendental Argument
for the existence of God. His version of the argument is
here.
When I read
Slick’s version of the argument,
my reaction was one that I often have when theists try to construct
purely logical arguments: as I was going through his bullet points, I
wasn’t nodding [...]
From
Frank Rich
by way of
dKos:
Bush-era Republicans have no moral authority to lecture about deficits.
The same goes for Reagan-era Republicans, BTW.
Not too long ago, I got
this reply
from one Ælfheah to a comment of mine:
‘Atheism’, for your information, does not mean a lack of religion, or, for that matter, a lack of religious beliefs. Abram was not an atheist before God revealed Himself to him. ‘Atheism’ means a belief that God does not exist. Merely not [...]
As you doubt already know if you go anywhere near the science end of
the blogosphere, today is not only Darwin Day, but Chuck’s 200th
birthday. Such an occasion must be celebrated!
Unfortunately, what with other stuff going on, and because I suck, I
don’t have any special content prepared. So go over to Pharyngula or
someplace. I’m sure there’s [...]
In case you haven’t read Tom Christiansen’s
Csh Programming Considered Harmful,
here’s another reason not to write csh/tcsh scripts
if you can avoid it.
Unlike the Bourne Shell, the C shell exits with “Undefined variable”
if you reference an undefined variable, instead of expanding that
variable to the empty string, the way the Bourne shell and Perl do.
But there’s the $?VAR [...]