(sorry, short local ad precedes video) ~ story w/vid ~ I can’t bear to think of all the perfectly good firearms needlessly destroyed by local governments across the nation, especially since there’s a waiting list for some new guns. … and I can always make room for more in my arsenal. (What? Well, yeah, there’s [...]
What gravity doesn’t get, the biota does. (caution: two autostart videos) A campaign against Griffon vultures is gathering pace in France after it was revealed that the carrion eaters had devoured the body of a 52-year-old woman who fell to her death in the Pyrenees. [The] woman had fallen down a 300-metre slope while taking [...]
Did the Earth move for you, too? A senior Iranian cleric says women who wear revealing clothing and behave promiscuously are to blame for earthquakes. … “Many women who do not dress modestly … lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, which increases earthquakes” …. [more, but not much and [...]
… or, you know, less. (NSFW, but awesome) Oooh, somebodyyy’s nooot gonnnna liiike thiiis. ~ ROLLOVER ~ Oh, now who doesn’t like a Femen-protest pictorial? I mean, especially when it’ll drive certain people up the wall.
Happy Ceasar Chavez Day via The Daily Caller More Chavezianity Happy secular Easter! (What? Well, I’m tryin’ to be inclusive an’ stuff.)
Religion and Science (caution: not to be discussed at the dinner table or at parties) Why small-a atheists like me despise capital-A Atheists and arm-chair philosophists (or other sophists). [A Weekly Standard article] “The Heretic” deals with philosopher Thomas Nagel, who has abandoned his long-held perspective on philosophy and religion. This has caused consternation and [...]
Me? After makin’ a nice pot’a coffee, I discovered there weren’t any eggs for breakfast. Buuut to lend Mondays a little perspective, remember that when you’re whinin’ about this’n that, nature is out there 24/7 waitin’ for you to screw up; and the only thing between you and certain death is (What? Well, usually that’s [...]
… what being a minor character in this bizarre national kabuki feels like.It’s kind’a like bein’ in the Tom Stoppard comedy** “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.” I mean, these guys don’t have a choice, and they never get to see what the main action is all about. More particularly, it’s like bein’ one of the [...]
February 20, 2013 – 6:41 pm
The law is the warning. ~ vid & story ~ Okay, here’s a textbook case (your State’s law may vary): • “Castle doctrine” generally means that the law presumes that someone unlawfully entering or inside a home is a threat, so the resident does not have to show they feared felonious intent. • The resident [...]
February 4, 2013 – 1:15 pm
Michael Yon’s thoughts on the murders of Chris Kyle and Chad Littlefield.
February 4, 2013 – 12:49 pm
Do. not. screw. up. no-kiddin’. real. actual. science science. We engineers need real reality to design with, or stuff goes terribly, terribly wrong! * AKA Lysenkoists
January 21, 2013 – 3:50 pm
Lesson 1: Basic Cartridge Identification If your haranguing Prog scolder gets that last one wrong, you need not give them any credibility on this subject or any other subject, for that matter, ever again; because they’re just lazily and unquestioningly parroting misinformation they learned from the teeeveee, movies, irresponsible/ignorant/stupid/disingenuous politicians, blatherers, and other ignorance-sucker-uppers. (What? [...]
January 14, 2013 – 10:48 am
A Palestinian musician is blaming the U.S. and Israel for the fact that the Palestinians have not yet been able to send a man to the moon. [His] group’s latest album was inspired by the contrast between NASA’s space exploration and the digging of smuggling tunnels between Gaza and Egypt. [more] Wellp … based on [...]
January 14, 2013 – 9:28 am
Gee, d’ya s’pose there’s a lesson here? Sure, angels; but that shouldn’t be one’s first line of defense. (vid takes 35sec to start, but at least you don’t have to sit through an ad) ~ story ~ (What? Yeah, somebody’s prob’ly workin’ on dog-control legislation, too. You know, workplace safety for robbers.)
January 11, 2013 – 9:58 am
Ahhh, nature No good deed goes unpunished. ~ vid ~ Remember, Nature is trying to kill us 24/7. It doesn’t care who you are or what you believe. Stay atop the food chain, my friends. Note: Holger Awakens also posted it. You dooo visit Holger regularly, dontcha?
January 8, 2013 – 9:52 pm
In the late 18th century, a London physician, Edward Jenner, learned from local dairymen that dairy maids who got cowpox never contracted the more fatal smallpox. He speculated that cowpox somehow prevented smallpox and tested this theory by taking germs from the cowpox lesions and inoculating unexposed persons. These people were shown to survive smallpox [...]
January 8, 2013 – 9:24 am
Authorities in Indonesia’s Aceh province are moving full-steam ahead with yet another implementation of sharia law, this time banning women from straddling motorcycles. According to the law, women are only allowed to ride “side-saddle” and are prohibited from holding onto the driver for support. The reason? Apparently, straddling a motorcycle is not a matter of [...]
December 19, 2012 – 9:08 am
~ vid ~Look, I’ve bad-mouthed PBS for years (and not without cause); but this production, my friends, is superb in every respect. It isn’t about what faiths you should or shouldn’t believe, it’s about what freedom of conscience means. It’s about what America means. If you can find re-runs, watch it or, better yet, record [...]
December 14, 2012 – 5:47 pm
“[T]heir government works.” * BEIJING (AP) — A knife-wielding man injured 22 children and one adult outside a primary school in central China as students were arriving for classes Friday, police said, the latest in a series of periodic rampage attacks at Chinese schools and kindergartens. … No motive was given for the stabbings, which [...]
December 10, 2012 – 1:10 pm
Because, were it otherwise, I as a small-a atheist (without belief, not anti-belief) would be chasing my severed head or blowing away from the stake in ashes or even hanging from a cross. Look, it’s no skin off’n my nose if somebody thinks I’m goin’t to Hell or sumpthin’, as long as they’re not greasin’ [...]
