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Open Response to htcpl, Who Doesn't Seem To Want One
"Hi, thanks for at least doing some attempt to use Google translate, I appreciate it even if that string of words didn't mean anything in particular ;-)"
You're welcome.
"The even more amusing thing is that after all this time, you still seem "concerned"."I don't think 'concerned' translates from Bulgarian to American correctly. When you say I am ( Read more... ) -
The News
News- Well, well, well, Jeremy Clarkson.
- 77-year-old Michigan pastor convicted of rape and sexual abuse of three underage girls. According to a prosecutor there was family pressure and pressure in the church to keep things quiet.
- Another day, another embarrassingly bonkers UKIP candidate: UKIP candidate who called David Cameron a ‘gay loving nutcase’ ( Read more... )
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Food For Thought
A lot of philosophies that don't work will work "on the Internet". Big practical problems with some philosophies don't exist, so long as your whole world is "the Internet" and your whole population is "people I talk to on the Internet. That population is disproportionately English speaking, wealthy and white, though I suspect no longer ( Read more... ) -
The News
News- Toronto, May 1: The political equivalent of Revelation. Update: Oh yes, Revelation.
- Oldest continuously inhabited settlement in the UK has been going for 10,000 years. What price the 6,000 year old earth now?
- Julia Gasper, who when she was with UKIP told gay people they needed to "stop complaining and start thanking straight people" for being ( Read more... )
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News 2014.03.21
World- Countdown to wingnut response of "See, there is a international movement that agrees that Evolution is wrong, and it's not just Christians." in 3...2...1...
- Media Matters creates new directory of wingnut lies, Mythopedia. It was just in time for the Conservative Political Action Conference.
- Not only does the CIA lie to the oversight committee, ( Read more... )
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News 2014.03.20
World- CPAC's most important panel: Minority outreach. Look at the crowds! (A photo of this same panel room full of people exists, because the outreach panel went over its time and the room began to fill for the next scheduled talk: NRA exec Wayne LaPierre.)
- United States of Socialist America!
- Hot on the heels of the conspiracy about Obama wanting to ( Read more... )
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News 2014.03.19
World- Porn problem: not Canadian enough.
- Free State Project interlopers are causing civil disturbances as they attempt to take over New Hampshire. All in the name of freedom, of course.
- Newsmax wants to start their own TV channel to compete with Fox News. "Our goal is to be a little more boomer-oriented, more information-based rather than being ( Read more... )
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News 2014.03.18
World- The Malaysia Airlines disappearance just got very bizarre.
- Mr. Goatachev, tear down this wall!
- Time to have a look into Prince Charles' mind.
- No wonder why the Turkish government wants to ban Facebook and YouTube.
- Comment of the day: "They'll want to put a kiwi on it, but really it should have a sheep on it. A sheep holding a rugby ball. A sheep ( Read more... )
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News 2014.03.17
World- Creationists attack Neil deGrasse Tyson for his blind faith in science.
- Such exchange. So crash. Very panic. Wow.
- Just in case you thought of the Church of England as basically benign. (National Secular Society protest petition.)
- There may be as much water trapped deep in the earth as there is in all the world's oceans. We can't wait for the ( Read more... )
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News 2014.03.16
World- Fred Phelps has apparently been excommunicated from the WBC and is near death.
- After China abstains from a Russian veto at the UN (Sino-Soviet split reunion!), протесты начнутся в Москве.
- A federal judge in Tennessee grants a preliminary injunction against the state's same-sex marriage ban in certain cases, further remarking that, "proscriptions ( Read more... )