Engraved on the casing "Proof That Dick Cheney Has A Heart."

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/07/14/cheney.heart.surgery/index.html?hpt=T2

As a follow-up to an earlier entry.

The tattoo is now done.

Crappy picture, I know, but it was from my cell phone. I don't plan to use it as an LJ-icon as such, I just didn't feel like dicking around with photobucket.

So, I did what I said what I wouldn't do, and I got into another online debate with Rhoblogy. He was commenting on a news article right wing apologist piece regarding the CIA's use of torture. Ostensibly, the Jack Bauer image of, through one means or another, beating the information out of the prisoner isn't accurate--rather, the "enhanced ( Read more... )

Human memory is extraordinarily fallible--it's a known fact of neuropsychology, but one which very few people think about. Human can remember facts, data quite well under most circumstances, but images, events, narratives--people by and large don't realize that, to a first approximation, everything you remember is going to have some inaccuracies, ( Read more... )

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I don't know what to make of it...a site so--I can't call it "stupid," the guy is obviously educated and intelligent--I don't know, I just look at it and remember the Marquis de Carabas in "Neverwhere" saying "what a refreshing mind you must have; there really is nothing like total ignorance, is there ( Read more... )

I've been chewing over TAG for a week or so now. It bugs the heck out of me, as it's the most inscrutable of the logical arguments for the existence of a god, and I got into a tiff over it a couple of weekends ago that didn't end in a satisfactory manner.

The easiest Logical argument to shoot down is the Ontological Argument.

1. God is the being of ( Read more... )

Go see Avatar. Go see it in 3D, and get there early so you can sit as close to the center line of the screen as possible so the polarization is optimal. Message repeats: GO SEE AVATAR.

(Yes I know it's not Citizen Kane in the plot department or what we'd call subtle in its morality, but as an excercise in world-building and cinematography it's ( Read more... )

1:20-7:42. Clip picks up with the host taking to task a fundagelical who touched a nerve...

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