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Bumper Sticker of the day
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Honk if you love Jesus. |
Heard on Car Talk
Religion, the occult, and politics
Two thumbs up!
Roger Ebert wrote:
New Age beliefs are the Creationism of the Progressives. I move in circles where most people would find it absurd to believe that humans didn’t evolve from prehistoric ancestors, yet many of these same people quite happily believe in astrology, psychics, reincarnation, the Tarot deck, the i Ching, and sooth-saying.
If you were attending a dinner party of community leaders in Dallas, Atlanta, Omaha or Colorado Springs and the conversation turned to religion, a chill might fall on the room if you confessed yourself an atheist. Yet at a dinner party of the nicest and brightest in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and (especially) Los Angeles, if the hostess began to confide about past lives, her Sign and yours, and her healing crystals, it might not go over so well if you confessed you thought she was full of it.
Via Bad Astronomy
Witch Hunting in the year 1430…
…A.H., also known as 2009 A.D.
SAUDI ARABIA: Kingdom steps up hunt for ‘witches’ and ‘black magicians’
Via Skepchick.
Religion, education, and gay rights
Demographics: who are these Episcopalians?. This Episcopalian is not surprised by the results about his church, but interested to see that we really are different from the “mainline Protestants” with which we are so often grouped. Another interesting statistic is about Roman Catholic attitudes toward gay people. What you hear from the pew may not be what you hear from the bishops.
Via the Episcopal Café.
Bumper Sticker
A few weeks ago I was driving westward along Marshall Ave. in St. Paul, just east of the Mississippi (west of which it becomes Lake St. in Minneapolis) when a bumper sticker caught my eye. In large print there was just one word, which I am familiar with in historical reading (e.g. for colgaffneyis), but rarely see in modern contexts. I saw it again tonight, and was able to park and get a picture:
The small print is the URL of the Ratzinger Fan Club.
Good News!
Judge clears way for dinosaur park to be seized
A federal judge has cleared the way for the government’s seizure of a creationism theme park in Pensacola owned by a couple convicted of tax fraud.
A ruling by U.S. District Judge Casey Rodgers states that the nine properties that make up Dinosaur Adventure Land as well as two bank accounts associated with the park will be used to satisfy $430,400 owed to the federal government.
Via Skepchick
Cereal with nuts
Convergence 2009
Convergence 2009 was a good con, though the sheer size of it exposed a basic structural flaw. In most of my decades in fandom, the social aspects of a convention have been more important than the programming. However, the highlight of this Convergence was one of the programming tracks. It was the most interesting programming I have seen in the several Convergences we have attended. The problem was with the party space: The parties of an ever-growing convention are squeezed into a finite and now very crowded space.
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From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 