Posted in Uncategorized on May 11th, 2009
Technology-wise, I am always a little bit behind the times. While my peers have gPhones and hPhones and iPhones, I have a little Nokia clamshell whose principal features are 1. MIDI “Saved by the Bell” theme-song ringtone, and 2. Tetris. Occasionally I get tempted to buy an iPhone, so that I can easily track my [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 9th, 2009
I have so far resisted blogging about the “hostile to religion” teacher. (Although I did include it in the @yrif twitter feed on account of the hilarious “teacher violated first amendment by insulting religion” headlines. Are you following the @yrif twitter feed? Go ahead, sign up, I’ll wait.) But Hemant managed to push my buttons [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 8th, 2009
You’d think Congress would have their hands full, with all the things they’re working on like using tax dollars to build unnecessary remote airports named after themselves, debating whether a method for choosing teams to play in football bowl games is “communism,” outlawing yard sales, propping up failing newspapers, and censoring “hostility” on the internet. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 7th, 2009
Today is the first Thursday in May, which means it’s the National Day of Prayer! NDP is, of course, the fourth-best holiday of the year, right after Mischief Night, System Administrator Appreciation Day, and National Corndog Day. I know what you’re thinking: shouldn’t National Day of Prayer be one of my least favorite holidays? Well, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 6th, 2009
There are a lot of good reasons to dig up a corpse. Maybe you need the gold in his fillings. Maybe you’re trying to figure out whether former President Zachary Taylor was poisoned. Maybe you want to make a skull bong. Or maybe you just want to find out if Galileo’s vision problems might have [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 5th, 2009
Over at Kingdom of Priests, David Klinghoffer poses (possibly disingenously) the question: “Anyway, I have a challenge for atheists and secondarily for agnostics. From where do you derive meaning in life?” As you might suspect, this is one of the topics addressed at length in my book: Another common objection to the points raised in [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 4th, 2009
Political scientists Neil Malhotra and Yotam Margalit raise the important question: “How much were the Jews to blame for the financial crisis?” Being good social scientists, they conducted a survey and produced all sorts of interesting results: Notice that more respondents chose “the Jews” than any other choice offered. It’s also interesting to look at [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 3rd, 2009
Thank you to everyone who entered our “Obfuscated Religious Nonsense” contest. In case you don’t remember, we challenged readers to produce garbage prose so meaningless that it would seem “deep” and “insightful” to the small-minded. There were tons of great entries, including “Christ’s Reduction of the Cathectic Libido Into the Unconscious,” “The Illusory Conflict Between [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 2nd, 2009
Otherwise, you end up with hilarious headlines like High school teacher found guilty of insulting Christians Mission Viejo history teacher James Corbett violated the First Amendment, a federal court rules.
Posted in Uncategorized on May 2nd, 2009
If you’re a Christian (or a Jew), you’ve probably noticed that it’s hard to believe in both science and the Bible. Human Genome Project leader (and evangelical Christian) Francis Collins has noticed this too: After his best-selling The Language of God came out three years ago, Collins began receiving thousands of e-mails — primarily from [...]
