The following is a somewhat long, but well worth reading, excerpt from Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion. Starting in Chapter 6, he begins a discussion of morality--where it comes from, and whether or not religion can be seen as a source of morality. This portion struck me as amusing evidence supporting the theory that it's not ( Read more... )

Happy zombie god day!

person1: I never understood grading curves. Are they an admission on the part of the prof that they're shitty tenured teachers, or a passive aggressive dig at retarded students ( Read more... )

I've gone through more Kleenex in the past 3-4 days than a menopausal woman whose TV is stuck on Lifetime.

Anyway, I'm starting to get better. The fever broke this morning, and I'm on antibiotics and nasal spray now. (Not that I'm at all convinced that the nasal spray didn't just get blown out before it could have any sort of effect whatsoever.)

In my defense, I'm sick. 102º fever last night, subsided a bit, but still feel like shit.

Several people I know have chosen to do a sort of "blog every day for a month" challenge. I'm not entirely sure what the goal of such a course of action would be, but if you know me, you know that I'm a scientist. What do I do when I don't understand something? I experiment! So let's give this thing a go. I'm not going to guarantee a post ( Read more... )

I saw an amusing article of little-known facts about Barack Obama. It's a fun read, and I learned a couple things about our President-Elect ( Read more... )

I honestly don't have the words to describe how elated I am over the result of yesterday's election. I won't even try. However, I once again noticed the words that I've had in my user info for years, and I feel like today they are particularly apt.

I find I'm so excited I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I imagine it's the ( Read more... )

I can never remember who all I've informed of things, but this merits a general announcement. There's a film that comes out next month (a month from today actually, Nov 7th), very limited release--only Los Angeles, San Francisco, Las Vegas, and New York City. This film is entitled Repo! The Genetic Opera (trailer) (official website), and is a ( Read more... )

Merry Christmas, all! And, because I'm waiting on dinner, a ( meme. )