I forgot to mention what charity the donation would be going to. I had an inclination to donate to the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science, but then I thought that, some folks don’t like Dawkins, and they should know that I’d contribute to him before lending passive support. So maybe Dawkins next month. [...]
“On behalf of your favorite charity(ies), we thank you for your generous support! By making an automated donation online through Network for Good, you have chosen one of the most efficient and cost effective ways to give to charity.” This was the donation for the Build House, in case folks forgot. Anyway, thus it is [...]
This is why you don’t just wipe dictators off the map just because dictators are evil. You might very well end up with what we have today in Iraq. Saddam was terrible, truly terrible. But he was better than what they have now, and it’s our fault.
A must. The speech itself is straight from The God Delusion, but it’s the Q&A that’s the real treat. Part 1 Part 2
Just got my Wii. Got in line about 5:45am at the Wrentham Target, where advance warning from enterprising hackers indicated they would have 120 systems. Talked with a dad who was there with his Straight-A’s son, who was being rewarded with his first game console. I was there because I have not matured since 1986. [...]
Why does Sherlock still exist? I mean, it’s not an RSS reader, it’s not a browser, it’s not Spotlight, and it offers nothing that isn’t as well served by an RSS reader, browser, or Spotlight. Silly.
The Democrats have taken the House of Representatives tonight, and for that, I think I can continue to live in this country with some modicum of faith and hope. If the Democrats could not turn the disastrous course this country has been on, combined with the huge number of scandals within the Republican government, into [...]
George Washington University’s National Security Archive obtained a report on secret war games conducted in 1999 through a FOIA request, a report that concluded that ousting Saddam would be a risky proposition even with 400,000 troops on the ground. And Bush gets stupider and stupider.
At least, that’s what an alien race would conclude if they examined the traps in our sinks. My bathroom sink has never drained very well, and after I shaved yesterday, some final hair had been added to some camel’s back, and it began draining reeeally slowly. So today, as a pause in my ever more [...]
It’s news like this that I absolutely love. Love love love it. Why? Because no one is hurt except a lying hypocrite, bitching about being hit by the Karma Train, and about how fast the Irony Police arrived on the scene. There is no disaster, there are no folks put into the street or killed, [...]
