Congress is currently considering the
Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act,
also known as the
Matthew Shepard
Act.
On the face of it, hurting someone for being
gay/black/left-handed/whatever is a terrible thing, so it should be
illegal.
But hurting people is already covered by other laws. And should
beating someone up for being gay be considered a worse crime than
beating up a random [...]
The Telegraph
reports that
Cardinal Sean Brady, the leader of Ireland’s Roman Catholics, has urged social network users to start sending daily prayers by text, Twitter or e-mail.
This, of course, could be the start of something huge: if tweeted
prayers are as good as spoken ones (contest for the comments section:
condense the Lord’s Prayer into 140 characters), then [...]
Because I haven’t done one in a while, and because I still have some
DJ cred to demolish.
Say Hello, Laurie Anderson
Hello City, Barenaked Ladies
Hello Radio, They Might Be Giants
Hello, Hooray, Alice Cooper
Greetings From A Dead Man, Eurythmics
Greetings to the New Brunette, Billy Bragg
Hello, I Am Your Heart, Manfred Mann’s Earth Band
Hello, I Love You, The Doors
Chamber [...]
One thing I’ve noticed about my code is that an awful lot of the
comments are of the form
call_some_function();
// XXX – Error-checking
(where
XXX
is an easily-grepped
marker for something that needs to be fixed.)
The proximate reason for this accumulation of “do something smart if
something goes wrong to-do items is that a lot of the time, the
function in which this [...]
Particularly for anyone who wants to contact me after the The Case for Christ talk at UMD, but go ahead and say what you like. Unless you’re a spammer, in which case FOAD.
The reason I read Catholic League releases is that BillDo’s stage persona, that of the hypersensitive apoplectic paranoiac stamping his little feet is amusing. Lately, though, he’s been in a bit of a slump, his tirades not quite over the top enough to be funny.
So I was pleased to see this item from last week:
For [...]
$NOM_ad =~ s/gay/interracial/ ==
I think this perfectly illustrates what’s wrong with the
original NOM ad.
(HT Cyde Weys.)
(PS: Amusingly enough, the song that was playing when I got this link was Foreigner’s I Want to Know What Love Is.)
I’m leading Secular Bible Study today, so here are my
notes on the book of Joshua
(org-mode version).
More details later, hopefully.
Update, Sat Apr 18 17:42:26 2009:
Well, that went pretty well, I thought. I didn’t get to give my
presentation, just give out bits and pieces of it as they became
relevant to the conversation. Then again, since I wasn’t [...]
Today at work, I had to sign some legal papers. They were pretty
standard “I have read the attached policy and agree to be bound by it”
stuff that all of us Full-Time Employment Units have to sign once a
year.
But I’m the sort of person who believes that if I sign an agreement, I
ought to at least [...]
The book of Proverbs
is funnier if you add “in bed”
at the end of every verse.
For instance:
1:8 Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction
and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.
12:18 Reckless words pierce like a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
13:4 The sluggard craves and gets [...]