The Chinese government may have beaten science fiction and fantasy writers to this one...

China tells living Buddhas to obtain permission before they reincarnateTibet’s living Buddhas have been banned from reincarnation without permission from China’s atheist leaders. The ban is included in new rules intended to assert Beijing’s authority over ( Read more... )

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latelyontime ponders the implications of some new research ( Read more... )

sushidog: I have heard tell of an American newscaster reporting on violence in South Africa, and referring to the "African-American Africans" who had been hurt or killed.
*head-desk*
kermitron: Awesome! But I think we can go one better. For black African-Americans that specifically come from Africa and live in America (unlike the Haitians and Jamaicans and whatnot ( Read more... )

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Comments in customers_suck on the topic of people pushing religious pamphlets on the lowly wage slaves:

betrayme: This used to happen to me, and then I took all the pamphlets about soul-saving people had given to me (or stealthily tried to leave on my counter), and put them in an envelope under the register. Now, I just hand them a pamplet in exchange and say something ( Read more... )

And now, for your morning blasphemy, I had a vision last night ( Read more... )

Just a handful of pictures taken on my cellphone. Sprint charges a firstborn to upload photos, so these are transferred via my camera taking pictures of the phone's screen :-P

A handful of wood frog eggs.

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