When I first tried to load in this picture, the browser said: "Cannot display image because it contains errors." Well, that just about says it all.

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Sumerians Look On In Confusion As God Creates World | The Onion

Members of the earth's earliest known civilization, the Sumerians, looked on in shock and confusion some 6,000 years ago as God, the Lord Almighty, created Heaven and Earth. According to recently excavated clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform script, thousands of Sumerians-the ( Read more... )

Yesterday Echo began to say "forty-two" very clearly. She keeps repeating it with great enthusiasm. No one taught her to say it, and she has never heard the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy audio books. Very strange.

Then this morning, she came to me with a form she picked up at the post office yesterday, and pointed to it saying "forty-two." I ( Read more... )

And God said, "Let there be tax cuts"

October 06, 2009 10:14 am ET by Simon Maloy

I, like many of you, often catch myself thinking about the trouble conservatives have relating to the Bible. You hear it all the time from the right -- they complain about how the Bible is a little too "activist" for their tastes, or how they can't be ( Read more... )

Les Stroud has a new series coming out soon. Here is what he says about it:

"I am in Africa working on the next series called Stroud's Vanishing World. I will be living with remote and indigenous peoples around the world and taking part in all manner of rituals, rites of passages and cultural traditions ...to explore how they have survived ' ( Read more... )

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Been working a lot on the yurt. I am enclosing the bottom of the platform, and have done some extra work on the bathroom. Here are some new photos...
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The quantum theory of reincarnation
By Roger Ebert on July 25, 2009 12:18 PM

If you want to see fear in the eyes of a quantum physicist, mention the word "measurement." -- Folk saying

Is reincarnation possible from a scientific, rationalist point of view? For my purposes today I'm going to argue that it is. We will never, however, be aware of it, and ( Read more... )

An End to Movements
by Douglas Rushkoff

The national healthcare movement was doomed from the start. TV clips of shouting matches at town halls and fear-mongering by cynical politicians may be lamentable, but we are witnessing something more profound than the collapse of civic discourse. The failure of a movement that could rightly claim over 70 ( Read more... )

An Eyeful A Day Keeps The Doctor Away

“Staring at women’s breasts is good for men’s health and makes them live longer, a new survey reveals. Researchers have discovered that a 10-minute ogle at women’s breasts is as healthy as half-an-hour in the gym. A five-year study of 200 men found that those who enjoyed a longing look at busty beauties had ( Read more... )