This may be a case of journalists making something of nothing, but check out the NY Times article called March of the Conservatives, published today. Apparently, the movie March of the Penguins isn’t about penguins, as the common, non-sophisticated, illiterate viewer may have thought. Instead, it is about such overarching topics as Monogamy, Intelligent Design, …
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Political Bullshit
If you reference my blog entry from yesterday titled Inexcusable Behavior, you might note that I advocated contacting your Senators to explain how the treatment of evacuees in New Orleans was deplorable at times. Well, I did that. I send an e-letter to Senators Isakson and Chambliss, both of Georgia. The letter was composed at …
Inexcusable Behavior
A friend, Mike Steele, posted this in his LiveJournal Blog. It is a story of two EMS people in New Orleans from the get-go and how they evacuated. This story, if all true and accurate as portrayed, is aboslutely sickening. I can understand, if not condone, indifference and deliberate ignorance from on-the-spot authorities, but what …
Scientology®!
Long, long ago, in my relative youth, I decided to pick up Dianetics by L.R. Hubbard and see what the heck it was all about. Entirely out of curiosity, I might add, rather than a desire to improve my teenage life. Congratulations to Mr. Hubbard because he was the first author who received my chuck-it-out-the-window …
Exploding Cell Phones! Beware!
I love internet hoaxes. Especially the ones that hang on for so long because there’s no real credible science to hang your skeptical hat on. For example, one of the most procreated hoaxes, both inside the internet and out, is the myth of the cell-phone-cause gas station explosion. This has become so much a part …
Flag-o-rama: Treatment of Our National Symbol
Ahhhh, our democratically-elected Congresscritters have once again voted in an attempt to amend our Constitution to outlaw the “physical descecration of the flag of the United States.” Actually to be more accurate, the amendment would only provide congress with “the power to prohibit” physical desecration, etc. Soon, the Senate will take it up and we’ll …
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