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Daily Archives: January 26, 2008
Gun Control
In the US, we (the general citizenry) are never going to agree on gun control. I have a solution. Continue reading Gun Control
Friday Ark 175
The Buttocks is not an excretory organ
… but it might be a sexual organ…
The Federal Communications Commission has proposed a $1.4 million fine against 52 ABC Television Network stations over a 2003 broadcast of cop drama NYPD Blue….The fine is for a scene where a boy surprises a woman as she prepares to take a shower. The scene depicted “multiple, close-up views” of the woman’s “nude buttocks” according to an agency order issued late Friday….The agency said the show was indecent because “it depicts sexual organs and excretory organs , specifically an adult woman’s buttocks.”The agency rejected the network’s argument that “the buttocks are not a sexual organ.”[source]
Steven Pinker: The stuff of thought
In an exclusive preview of his new book, The Stuff of Thought, Steven Pinker looks at language, and the way it expresses the workings of our minds. By analyzing common sentences and words, he shows us how, in what we say and how we say it, we’re communicating much more than we realize.
Darwin Awards
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Creationist Home Schooling Science Fair
As PZ Myers reminds us, it is time to start planning for the Twin Cities Home Schooling Science Fair at Har Mar Mall, in Roseville, Minnesota. Continue reading Creationist Home Schooling Science Fair
Some Sick Atheist Demeans Kids … Photographic Evidence Destroyed
This is a repost of an item from my old blog. The Twin Cities Creation Science Fair association usually posts “random” photographs of the children’s exhibits on their web site after the fair is over. You can go and see them for the last few years. (Don’t look for a place to click on this post, I don’t provide it here.)But this year, something different happened, and if you go to the site where the photographs are supposed to be posted, you get this:
Interesting, huh?Now, to really get the context of this, you may need to read at least the blog post and the last six or so comments in a conversation going on here about home schooling.I’m not going to even attempt to explain this. Comments? Suggestions? Information? Valium?
Twin Cities Home Schooling Creationist Science Fair Photos
This is a repost of an item from my old blog.
The Twin Cities Home Schooling Creationist Science Fair at Har Mar Mall in Roseville, Minnesota happened last month. The organization that (at least partly) sponsors this event (Twin Cities Creation Science) usually posts photographs of the science fair, but this year they got into a tizzy about it for some reason and removed the photographs from their web site.
Continue reading Twin Cities Home Schooling Creationist Science Fair Photos
Home School Creationist Science Fair: Har Mar Mall Feb 17 and 18 2007
This is a repost of an item from my old blog. 
The fear of God is the beginning of knowledge.
Proverbs 1:7This is an Absodoodly-don’t miss event! Har Mar Mall, Rosedale DistrictRoseville MinnesotaFeb 17 and 18 2007Exhibits must be set up between 8:30 and 10:00 am Saturday and will remain up until 4:00 pm SundayJudging begins at 10:00 am and finishes at about 12:30 pm SaturdayAccording to Russ McGlenn (the dapper gentlemen in the photo, shown here at the Har Mar Mall during a previous Creation Science Fair), of Adventure Safaris (facilitator and coordinating agency of the Home School Science Fair):”We need to train our students and ourselves to ask the right questions.”And he continues… Continue reading Home School Creationist Science Fair: Har Mar Mall Feb 17 and 18 2007
If you are eating or driking something now, don’t read this.
I’m serious. You can’t see this post until you put down your coffee and make sure your airways are clear. Then you can click on the heading and laugh, and cry, and everything…
Continue reading If you are eating or driking something now, don’t read this.
David Pogue: A 4-minute medley on the music wars
New York Times tech columnist David Pogue is back with a satirical mini-medley that explains the legal and social history ofmusic and media on the Internet in 4 minutes. Continue reading David Pogue: A 4-minute medley on the music wars
Open Access Humor
Yes, even serious topics like Open Access can be funny.From Vimeo, moments from the SPARACRL forum. You will laugh, you will cry. Continue reading Open Access Humor