Rick Mercer weighs in on the equal marriage debates. Rick Mercer is wonderful. I want to marry Rick Mercer.

You need either Windoze Media Player or Quicktime to see the video.

I still can't comment on CC but I thought this bit of snark was too delicious to just leave unsaid.

Someone commented, in a discussion of varying philosophies:
My point was, just as you need "explorer.exe" to be running in the background of your computer to keep windows running, you NEED the fear of the Lord always to have any degree of wisdom and ( Read more... )

Many thanks to Dave for pointing me to the reDiscovery Institute.
Whatever would we do without the brave people of the reDiscovery Institute helping us find flaws in the logic of so-called "science". For example, did you know that the periodic table of elements is not a fact, but a theory? And just look at all the mistakes it's contained over the ( Read more... )

I've been reading Christian Conservative lately.  Amp of Alas, A Blog was interviewed on there recently, and, reading the interview, I was impressed by how reasonable CC's blogger, Michael Gallaugher seemed to be.  So I read through a bunch of the archives and started following the blog.  For the most part I'm still impressed. I guess it just ( Read more... )

So Floosh wasn't around this time and I need a bit of help. Can anyone translate chupa pinga quien mierda seras.
for me? Dave thinks it means "You're a cocksucker who will be shit" (based on the uncertain assumption that pinga means cock) and I'm completely at a loss.

So.. Anyone?

UPDATE: I've decided that Dave is wrong, because his english ( Read more... )

I don't like talking to people I don't know in the best of circumstances. I hate it when inarticulate bobos try to enforce their presence on me online. Especially on MSN. Where do these people get my ID anyway?

Here follows a transcript of a conversation I had today with one such bobo. (And muchas gracias to Floosh for helping me out with the ( Read more... )

An open letter to the man who held up traffic while trying to talk me into his van yesterday as I was crossing St. Urbain at Laurier.
Dear Jackass,

Women are human beings, not receptacles for your sexual and social fantasies.  Did it occur to you, as you gave me the once-over and rolled down your window, that my life has nothing to do with yours?   ( Read more... )

Well, as I mentioned before, I've got a garden I'm allowed to play in. When I last gardenblogged, the weeds had been dug up and the soil had been tilled. There's been quite a bit of progress since, although most of it was done over just two days ( Read more... )

UPDATE:Daphers asked for more detail, and whatever Daphers wants, Daphers gets.

Okay, here we go:

Total number of books owned?
Um... lots.

Last book I bought?
I dunno. I tend to beg and borrow more than buy when it comes to books. Nora recently gave me Brave New World. Does that count?

Last book I read?
Well, I'm in the middle of the ( Read more... )

I've had a very physical day. I got home at 10:30 this morning (after having gone to bed after two and woken up around 8:30) and called T. He came over by 11 and we spent the next four hours or so digging up the grass, weeds, mint and literally *hundreds* of maple saplings that had sprouted in my front yard. Sinead showed up at some point and ( Read more... )