He’s baaack…

Dan Griffith has tried this before and he’s trying it again:

Dan Griffith is running for the Minnesota Court of Appeals seat currently held by Judge Terri J. Stoneburner, and because positions and party affiliations are not part of the campaign process for judicial candidates, most voters don’t know that Griffith is a right-wing evangelical Christian who would make rulings based on his faith.

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Information about last week’s convention is here.

This is alleged to be a picture of Mabus making what looks like an “I’m shooting you with a pistol” gesture:

And this is the note he posted on my blog in which he mentiones the whole bullet in the head thing:

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION!

a bullet for your head, traitor

And finally, the *only* man in Minnesota who says there is no God has suddenly become an arbiter on mental health… unfacts.org/factsforum/viewtopic.php?t=4080 COME SEE A PHOTO OF MABUS AND AN EXPLANATION OF IT!

Mabus never really worried me before, but this is the photograph of an obvious psychotic killer. I assume the RCMP is on top of this guy like a Mounty on a horse, and that the atheists were well protected.

And thus, Belushi’s 1st audition:

And oldie but a goodie:
Continue reading Sunday Morning Contemplation: What would Jesus Not Do? →

This is from a year ago or so:

This was not a lion attack. It was a lion, playing:

THIS is a lion attack:

And finally, this classic video just for fun:

Continue reading Happy Birthday John Lennon →

It is said that these were the words uttered by William Orton, President of Western Union, when given the chance to buy out a 10% share of Alexander Graham Bell’s patents for $100,000. Those patents included those related to the telephone.

A few weeks later, on this day in 1876, Alexander Graham Bell and his assistant Watson carried out the first two-way “long”-distance conversation on a telephone, borrowing for the purpose in-place telegraph line, between Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts. By spring of the next year several additional tests were run over much longer distances, most (but not all) successful. The rest is history.

Reef Madness: Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the Meaning of Coral is a book about the origins of modern science, the interplay between theory and empiricism, the machinations of the Victorian scientific gentry, epic rivalries, polyps and plankton.

Reef Madness is by David Dobbs, of Neuron Culture here on Scienceblogs. Look for an upcoming Bloggingheads.tv discussion between David and me, mainly about this book.

~ A Repost because it is still a good book ~

Continue reading Reef Madness by David Dobbs →

Imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for “his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights” – a prize likely to enrage the Chinese government, which had warned the Nobel committee not to honor him.

Thorbjoern Jagland, the Norwegian Nobel Committee chairman, said Liu Xiaobo (LEE-o SHAo-boh) was a symbol for the fight for human rights in China and the government should expect that its policies face scrutiny

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Desiree will interview Bora Zivkovic, Blog and Community Editor at Scientific American!!!!

Details here