Archive for February, 2006



Jeff Jacoby, of the Boston Globe, is the voice that finally calls out the Nero-loving Leftists of our media-class elite:
Ten arson attacks against 10 churches — all of them Baptist, all in small Alabama towns, all in the space of eight days: If anything is a hate crime, obviously this is.
Or is it? ‘’We’re looking […]

“Officer’s Fatal Accident Is His Second”–headline, Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), Feb. 15
Madness!!!

Abortion Season

In the wake of frenzied news coverage of Dick Cheney’s hunting accident, Mike Adams offers some suggestions for liberal activists gleaned from hunting:
5. Abortion safety education.
Anyone who is about to have an abortion should take an abortion safety class. The students should be shown films of the fetus inside the womb at three months. This […]

Flock of Dodos

New film on the debate between evolutionary science and Intelligent Falling Design seeks to prove that people really are descended from their parents. Flock of Dodos literally illustrates the communication failures between both sides of the issue, and since it tries to present both sides fairly, probably won’t ultimately be entertaining.
I’m glad to see […]

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco

Dover update

Bob makes some insightful commentary on Blandus‘ post, Dover and Intelligent Design.
C. Judge Jones was severely angry.
The regular pundits don’t point out this kind of stuff. But it’s true.
Thanks, Bob.
Madness!

Seperate but Equal?

Madness!

Madness!

God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
- Sir William Bragg

Those Crazy Kids

So it’s not surprising that Nielsen Media Research announced it will include college students in its national TV ratings early next year, marking the first time that the company has added viewing outside the home to its calculations. The company will measure viewing for students living in dorms, sorority and fraternity houses, and off-campus apartments. […]

Kissing Cousins

I was surprised to learn that 26 US states allow 1st cousin marriages, that Rudy Giuliani and FDR married their second cousins (I’d known about Einstein marrying his double cousin), and that the US is the only western country to limit cousin marriages.
None of that nonsense in Kentucky, however.
Madness?

Got your goat?

Sudanese man forced to take goat as his “wife” after owner of the goat caught them, um, together.
Personally, I think that the dowry is a little high, considering the bride, but I really don’t have experience in this area.
Madness. Madness. Madness.

Sometimes I am crazy.


Of Shroves and Ashes

Is all penitence lost?
Does only madness remain?
How can we have absolution (shrive) without ashes (penitence)?