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Goodbye, LiveJournal
For some reason, my LJ posts have stopped being ported over to FaceBook.
I have not been able to figure out why.
Since I can post directly onto FaceBook myself, and that is where people comment,
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We Have A Winner!
The results are in, and it looks like Hephaestus is the winner. Life was forged in the hot hydrothermal vents deep in the ocean floor, where the Earth's crust is wrenched apart by immense geological forces. I would like to thank all the gods for participating. Congratulations, Hephaestus, your myth about the creation of life is closest to true. You ( Read more... ) -
ClimateGate
According to Lord Oxburgh, chairman of the independent panel asked to investigate the "ClimateGate" emails, We found absolutely no evidence of any impropriety whatsoeverI wish I had a camera to register my complete lack of surprise. Really, it's something to behold. I think it registers close to zero on the Kelvin scale of surprise ( Read more... ) -
An Exhaustive, Point By Point Illustration Of Mike Huckabee's Tenuous Grip On Reason
(Fair Warning: this post is close to 2,000 words long.)
Well, Mike Huckabee has made an ass of himselfWhile his equation of incest and homosexuality are drawing a lot of focus, I thought I would just concentrate on how his statements show his mind is unable or unwilling to function in a logical capacity ( Read more... ) -
Guantanamo
Mohamedou Salahi is the 34th Guantanamo detainee whose imprisonment has been judged illegal by the federal courts.
Despite being suspected of helping three of the 9/11 hijackers reach Afghanistan for training, he is being let go. Why? Because too much of the evidence we have against him was obtained through torture ( Read more... ) -
Unfortunate Similarities
Remember how Reagan claimed he brought down The Iron Curtain? He claimed that by bringing The Soviet Union into the arms race, he bankrupted them and led to their collapse. Personally, I think Reagan was full of shit. I've been to The Soviet Union, and I saw first hand how stupid their economic policies were. It wasn't Reagan; they did it to ( Read more... ) -
Headache
I feel like I've checked the clock three times in three hours, and each time it's still 9:30. I remember an ex-girlfriend who believed this kind of personal sense of time allowed her to drive across town in under five minutes. Not to diss Wiccans, but she felt it was one of her powers. "Luck is probability taken personally." - Chip Denman. Remember ( Read more... ) -
Partisan Rage
A man in Tennessee seems to have slammed his SUV into another car and run it off the road on account of an Obama bumper sticker. And in case you're tempted to make some sweeping generalizing statement about Republicans, be advised that your comments will be returned in force. Air Force, to be exact ( Read more... ) -
The Way You Act Is The Way You Think
Dear philosophers contemplating over the mind/body "split,"
Your body is your brain.
Sincerely,
ScienceP.S ( Read more... ) -
Armageddon?
So health care passes ... I'm interested to see if opponents such as John Boehner will be held to the ridiculous and outlandish predictions of doom that were uttered? Now we get to see if they will come to pass. I, for one, am prepared to apologize if those predictions prove true. I am, however, confident that they won'tWhen you blow up a threat ( Read more... )