Jake Allen’s Ockhamist.com

Straight from the newsroom, “I no longer like working with the public!”
True, at one time I was glad to work with the public, being nice and friendly and providing some small service in exchange for hourly wages. NOT ANYMORE. I’ve lost that lovin’ feeling, now it’s gone, gone gone. Whoa.
Let me be more […]

School of Athens, by Raphael

Pictured above are:
Zeno
Epicurus
Averroes
Pythagoras
Xenophon
Socrates
Parminedes
Heraclitus
Plato
Aristotle
Diogenes
Euclid
Zoroaster
Ptolemy
Raffaello Sanzio (self-portrait)
and maybe more.
I thought once that I belonged here, but I have dropped out of the School of Athens.

Slashdot.org, once a fun nerdy site forum/blog turned legitimate news source, is reposting a Salon.com article about how hackers, programmers, and otherwise nerdy men in front of computer screens are turning to the Atkins diet to lose weight without exercize.
Money for nothing?
Madness?

The page has some fun red colors. Red was easier to match than blues or greens. There were no fruity pink colors used: they are all Red! If they do not look red, its your browser’s fault. Also, I could make redruM jokes, if I knew any. Expect more changes, […]

~gauche has been most kind, and, rather than simply criticize a poor design, has offered a nice solution(s) which I have taken.
Thank you.
Progress?

“We call our strategy ‘the wedge.’”
-Phillip Johnson, Defeating Darwinism, IV Press, 1997, p. 92
This man intends to sunder the ranks of theistic evolutionists and others who hold to a middle position that evolution is not compatible with religion. He aims to force a choice not only between creationism and science, but between verbal-plenary inspiration […]

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The worst five-year period for inflation was 1977-81, at 10.06 percent a year. The worst 10-year period was 1973-82, at 8.67 percent. The worst 15-year period was 1968-82, at 7.3 percent. And the worst 20-year period was 1966-85, at 6.36 percent.

Not to further sound like a wako after that last post, “science” fails when attempting to define God, rather than let Him define Himself. The latest case in point stems from Duke university’s 3-year study of the effects of prayer on angioplasty, the largest of its kind ever conducted.

The results, as you might expect, […]

What do most people call it, trash juice or grabage water?
You know, that part-water, part-slime stuff underneath the trash bags in the bottoms of well-used cans . . . what do you call it?
I work in foodservice, as many of you are aware, and yesterday the trash juice splashed up into my face. I […]