Sam Harris has written an excellent essay for the LA Times. The following quote has been circulating and is in itself brilliant:
Everything of value that people get from religion can be had more honestly, without presuming anything on insufficient evidence. The rest is self-deception, set to music.
This fragment nicely summarizes his argument:
The problem is that [...]
In Which Our Hero Succumbs to 1970s Era Furniture
Eleven years ago this June I tweaked the hell out of my back. This happened while foolishly trying to move a couch (a hide-a-bed made from cast iron and lead it seemed) with my brother. One instant I was carrying the damn thing up the ramp of [...]
This video of a Dolphin massacre in Japan is pretty bad. Usually I have a pretty good tolerance for this type of thing, but this one was very unsettling.
Tip o’ the hat to Pharyngula
You would think by now that companies would have figured out this whole eCommerce thing, but apparently not. Here is a quote from the Wii tracking site that I linked to earlier:
Today Fry’s website was saying it had the Wii in stock, but actually their ordering server crashed yesterday. It was taking orders this morning, [...]
If you need more evidence of the overall absurdity and overreaching of the United States government look no further than some of the insanity they institute in the name of “public health”.
I consider myself a Libertarian however I have rarely found an ideological reason to align myself with the supposed conservative party the Republicans. This article highlights just one (of millions) of the reasons why the Republican version of conservative is insane and ultimately bad for us all.
I am not sure what exactly to say about this.
A potentially major story has been quietly bubbling over the past 48 hours. The story is that voters are being harassed/intimidated/told not to go to the polls all over the state of Virgina. Virginia is the site of a hotly contested battle of stupidity between the moronic incumbent George Allen (R) and challenger James Webb [...]