BillDo has a post entitled “Is the Met’s Tosca Sacrilegious?” (except that he has it in all caps because it’s shoutier.)
He concludes with
So, no, “Tosca” is not sacrilegious. It’s just a bore.
Cats and dogs living together! BillDo and I agree on something!
Also noteworthy:
The only reason I went was because of reports that at the end [...]
The Center for Inquiry is holding a blasphemy contest on the occasion of blasphemy day. So put your thinking caps on and come up with something that fits on a T-shirt, and also, in another time or place, would also get you arrested or killed for wearing said T-shirt.
What’s more amusing is that this contest [...]
If you don’t recognize the name John A. Davison, see
here
for the backstory. Basically, he has a history of not understanding
the difference between posts and comments, and of starting blogs with
one post and hundreds of comments.
So you understand why I was surprised to see that his
new blog
has a whole seven posts. Seven!
Then I realized that each [...]
Today’s Onion includes the story
“Spider Eggs Hatch In Bush’s Brain“.
This would be unremarkable, except for the fact that last week, the
Onion Radio News had the story
“Vice President Cheney Seen Dragging Egg Sac Through West Wing“.
Is the Onion introducing continuity between stories? Has this formerly
resolutely short-attention-span publication yielded to pressure to
introduce story arcs? Stay tuned. Unless [...]
When I
wrote
earlier about participating in the “No on Prop 8″ demonstration at the
National Mall, I was rather dismissive of the notion that it might
affect anyone’s opinion.
However, SurveyUSA published a
poll
about Prop 8 with an interesting result. People who voted for Prop 8
were asked “Have the protesters changed your opinion on Prop 8?”. 8%
of them said yes.
In
this episode
of the John Cleese podcast, he takes on a pet peeve of mine, and
explains with graphs and charts exactly why it’s wrong to say “I could
care less”.
Oh, and for those who didn’t know that John Cleese has a podcast:
John Cleese has a
podcast.
Allow me to pimp Greta Christina’s Blog, for no other reason than that she’s worth reading, including a few articles that I wanted to write, but she beat me to it:
Why Religion Is Like Fanfic compares religious apologetics (why does the Bible say that Judas hanged himself in one passage, but that he exploded in [...]
First, here’s an opinion piece by Patrick Smith at the NYT’s “Jet Lagged” weblog, pointing out a lot of the problems with airport security procedures.
At every concourse checkpoint you’ll see a bin or barrel brimming with contraband containers taken from passengers for having exceeded the volume limit. Now, the assumption has to be that the [...]
In the wake of Mitt Romney’s speech, the Washington Post has an editorial that makes some of the same points that I did.
Where Mr. Romney most fell short, though, was in his failure to recognize that America is composed of citizens not only of different faiths but of no faith at all and that the [...]
It doesn’t happen here very often this early in the season, but it’s currently snowing! See this artist’s rendition:
(Artist’s rendition may not be 100% accurate.)
This isn’t prairie winter, mind you: this is Washington area snow, the kind where even a quarter-inch is enough to close schools and send panicked citizens scurrying to buy up all [...]