"God created man in his image; in the divine image he created him; male and female he created them."
--- Genesis 1:27

Genetics show that 96% of DNA sequence between chimpanzees and humans is identicial. (Financial Times)

Does this mean that chimps are 96% of Gods image?

'In America, a black cat crossing your path is considered bad luck. (Which of couse is stupid) In England and parts of Asia it is considered good luck. In Antarctica, it just shocks people."

-- Get Fuzzy, September 27th

This Wednesday, the Senate Environment Committee is holding a hearing on global warming.

The lead witness? Michael Crichton.

You really can't make this stuff up.

A MFC (my favorite co-worker) fosters kitten that have lost their moms and are too young for adoption. Because thier immune systems aren't strong enough yet, the shelter doesn't like to keep them with older cats, and so they go home with her. And she brings them to work.

I've put up some photos. ( I've warned you! )

From This is Not Over:
People are going around and around about who should have done what at what time to get food and water to the victims of Katrina, and to get the buses there to evacuate people from the city who didn't get out on their own, and to get medical care to the elderly so they wouldn't die, and to get control of the shelter areas so ( Read more... )

Of all the things I'm involved with, I've never asked anyone here for anything ( Read more... )

I'd also like to know what exactly it means when people talk about "defending our freedom." If we're stuck in another country and can't pull out because of the "signal it would send to terrorists," - doesn't that make us inherently less free?

-m

I'm bored, stuck at work, and have a camera... ( so bored )

Mark Moldford, San Francisco Gate:

Ah, there it is, yet another massive big-box mega-strip mall, a giant beacon of glorious community decay, a wilted exclamation point of consumerism gone wild. This is America. You have arrived. You are home. Eat it and smile ( Read more... )

Being bored, I decided to google my own name again. It seems that there is only one other person that shares my first and last name, and he lives in Germany. It also seems that he does film work of some sort (can't read german so I can't tell much more than that ( Read more... )