Yep. North Carolina is considering a constitutional amendment against gay marriage, so what does this redneck do? He steals a sign urging people to vote against the bigotry, pulls out a gun, and sends a message by shooting it. Way to defy Southern stereotypes, guy. (via Joe. My. God.)
Monthly Archive: April 2012
Apr 30 2012
Things Jesus can’t beat
We now have a good list of stuff that we can use against Jesus. Nails. Chariots of Iron. Cancer. No wonder there hasn’t been a Second Coming. He’s cowering up there behind Jahweh’s big throne, knowing that we’ve got all that stuff out the wazoo down here.
Apr 30 2012
Gaily frolicking squid
Some species of cephalopods are incapable of concealing their sexual history. The males produce packets of sperm called spermatangia that they grasp with a specialized arm that they then reach out and splat, poke into their mate. In Octopoteuthis deletron, a deep-sea squid, these spermatangia are large, pale, and distinctive, so every time a squid …
Apr 30 2012
NO RACIAL PROFILING, PLEASE
I’m more than a little appalled. Sam Harris defends racial profiling in airport security screening. I reject this categorically. We should profile Muslims, or anyone who looks like he or she could conceivably be Muslim, and we should be honest about it. And, again, I wouldn’t put someone who looks like me entirely outside the …
Apr 30 2012
Near-death, rehashed
The story so far: Mario Beauregard published a very silly article in Salon, claiming that Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) were proof of life after death, a claim that he attempted to support with a couple of feeble anecdotes. I replied, pointing out that NDEs are delusions, and his anecdotal evidence was not evidence at all. Now …
Apr 30 2012
Death from below
You may recall that tantalizing photo of an octopus eating a seagull that I posted last month: now the whole series and the story behind them is online.
Apr 30 2012
Thank you for the clarification, Ken Ham!
This just in: Jesus was NOT a cosmic Jewish zombie. Ken Ham carefully and very seriously explains to us that Jesus was not mindless, and he ate food, not his disciples brains, therefore the humorous accusations of zombiehood are false. Jesus did come in the flesh as a Jew, so you got part of this …
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