You’ve probably seen this by now. If not… well, now you have. EPIC! Hat tip to Wired’s Geek Dad.
Monthly Archive: November 2009
Nov 23 2009
Are there things in this universe that are fundamentally ungraspable?
More autotuned science beauty. Hat tip to that dratted PZ Myers, who got to watch this before I did.
Nov 23 2009
Ladies and gentlemen: crocoduck.
In case you haven’t heard, one of Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron’s lines of argumentation involves holding up a photoshopped monster (whose origin is very likely the Something Awful, Worth 1000, or Fark photoshop contests), and saying “evolution says this should exist as a transitional form, and it doesn’t, therefore God, QED.” They usually just …
Nov 22 2009
Our child
Meet Ginger, our ten and a half year old Nova Scotia duck toller / border collie cross. She’s very intelligent, which makes for problems when we have to leave the house outside of our normal routine — it upsets her to the point where things get eaten and/or chewed. Taken with our Kodak EasyShare Z8612IS, …
Nov 22 2009
RCimT: This Week, Without Gods
This is long overdue, but this week’s Cool Atheist of the Week is awarded posthumously to George Carlin, who veiled his insight into humanity under the guise of being a comedian — as in Shakespeare’s plays, the Fool is the one freest to speak to the King without fear of retribution. You know who I …
Nov 21 2009
Forced morality
Fundamentalist Christians oftentimes attempt to legislate sexuality — from laws that state marriage is “between one man and one woman”, to laws against women getting abortions even in cases where the mother was raped, or where the baby has no chance of surviving and poses a health risk to the mother. They oftentimes attempt to …
Nov 20 2009
We know the Origin of Species
… but what’s the Origin of Stupidity? Ray “Bananaman” Comfort and That-Other-Guy-You-Know-The-One-From-Growing-Pains, have teamed up once more to put together a 150th Anniversary edition of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. They did so in order to include …
Nov 20 2009
Humans have two potential paths
With the technology we have developed, we can explore the cosmos, or we can destroy ourselves. Which will it be, mankind?
Nov 19 2009
A quick story
A middle aged man (we’ll call him Jim) and a twenty-something woman (we’ll call her Jane) are engaged in conversation. Jim mentions that he has found himself a job for the winter seasonal break. Being friendly, Jane congratulates him and asks what kind of job he’s found. Jim happily informs her that he’s going to …
Nov 19 2009
Gay Puerto Rican decapitated, burned…
… and the presiding investigator says “people who lead this type of lifestyle need to be aware that this will happen”. Wait, seriously? Being gay leads to mutilation? Let’s just reiterate exactly what happened to this poor boy: He was found on the site of an isolated road in the city of Cayey, he was …










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