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jean fouquet's "the madonna" is awesome.
OK, I'm not usually big into religioius art, but I came across this on Wikipedia- French artist Jean Fouquet's "Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels" from 1450 and I thought it was totally weird and interesting as hell. Man, where to even start on this one? So instead of blabbing I'll just show you...
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Scientology Orientation Video
This is Scientology's orientation video. You see it when you take a personality test or sign up for the most basic Dianetics/Scientology course, the "Communications Course." It will be of interest to folks like myself, but also possibly of interest and humorous to others. It's *so* cheezy and campy it hurts. If you think it's boring, just fast ( Read more... ) -
scientology doesn't have a monopoly on space opera religion...
I'm sure most lf you have heard of Scientology and the evil Galactic Overlord "Xenu." Well, you might not be aware that the Mormons (The Latter Day Saints, LDS) are just about as weird and full of cool science fiction. The video below summarizes it pretty well. Mind you, most Mormon apologists will point out that the information below is nothing ( Read more... ) -
my teeth are gorgeous- who knew!?
On Friday, Mandie and I made a trip to the dentist. Neither of us have been to a dentist for a few years, so we went in to get a check-up and clean job and to see if we had any cavities. The last time I went to the dentist, back in 2002 or 2003, the dentist said that I might have to be getting a root canal soon, based on what she saw. But, I'd ( Read more... ) -
president ford: the greatest healer of our time
So, something I've started listening to is Harry Shearer's radio show Le Show (the website, the RSS feed/podcast link). Shearer is the guy who does Smithers and Burns on the Simpsons and in those movies with Christopher Guest, but he also makes a good radio show full of dry humor and bitter analysis of the news. I like it enough to keep listening ( Read more... ) -
habeas corpus- who needs it?
so. i'm sure you've all probably heard about this, and it is old news. but i ran across this clip at yt that i think sumarizes best, thanks for mr. olbermann:
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sorry, but the dems aren't going to save you
borrowed from this indymedia story. pasted here so that people might actually read it. I personally don't think impeaching Bush would accomplish much- it'd be a huge waste of money, a distraction from real issues, and none of the fundamental problems would be addressed. But it's still illustrative of the Dem's complete lack of backbone ( Read more... ) -
neat animated film, based on noam chomsky/st. augustine
Here's a neat animated film, based on noam chomsky/st. augustine. I had ended up at this Wikipedia page, somehow through reading the article on Plato's The Republic. Anyway, it's fun-
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seriously... remember to vote! even if to not-vote!
OK, this is the journal entry where I make an impassioned plea to your sense of civic duty, one of many that you'll probably hear today. But this one is different. I'm not here to tell you that you have to vote Democrat your job will be shipped to Indonesia; nor am I going to tell you to vote Republican or else a bunch of "Islamo-fascists" will ( Read more... )
