Good news, everyone! The US Fish and Wildlife Service has decided that captive chimpanzees deserve the same protection as wild chimpanzees. We’ve been living for years with a peculiar split decision that says it is illegal to experiment on some chimps, the ones still living in the wild, but other chimps, those that live in research colonies, have fewer protections.
I must be old, because I’ve done this before. I tell you what, it was a durn sight better then having to chisel those stone slabs, which was even better than smearing ochre on a cave wall with a stick.
I really don’t understand how these sanctimonious pious types can tell us to live by Biblical standards when they haven’t even read the damned thing.
Fox News contributor Cal Thomas argued over the weekend that polygamy and “adult-child marriage” could become legal in the United States unless the Supreme Court bases its same-sex marriage ruling on “scripture.”
King David? Numbers 31? How old was Rebecca when she was married off to Isaac?
How can you argue that making your laws Biblically based would prohibit polygamy and adult-child marriage?
I liked Chris Pratt in Parks & Rec. He was good in Guardians of the Galaxy. I’m probably not going to enjoy Jurassic World when I see it this week, but I wouldn’t blame that on Pratt.
Unfortunately, I just learned that in real life he’s a Jebus loving conservative who quotes the Bible on his facebook page. It’s kind of the reverse of Adam Baldwin; I was appalled when I discovered that his character on Firefly wasn’t acting, but that he really was smug dim-brained dope in reality. Now Pratt, who seems like a normal and secular person in his films, is a Jebusite in reality.
Hey, at least that means Pratt is a better actor!
As the comet it’s parked on moves closer to the sun, the Philae lander has woken up! It better get busy and upload all the data it’s got stored and start collecting more. It’s been sleeping long enough!
Poor, poor pitiful Tim Hunt. He’s now complaining about his treatment as a victim of the “savage power of Twitter”.
I am finished,he says.I had hoped to do a lot more to help promote science in this country and in Europe, but I cannot see how that can happen. I have become toxic. I have been hung to dry by academic institutes who have not even bothered to ask me for my side of affairs.
He does not make a convincing argument. His wife takes his side; he’s a good cook and has a nice garden; he was just being totally jocular, ironic
(which is an odd thing to claim when even in his apology he said he meant it). Oh, and of course, it was just part of his upbringing. He went to a single-sex school in the 1960s
, because no one ever escapes the harm done to them in their childhood, unless it’s sexual abuse, in which case they should just grow up and get over it. It’s basically a cry that everyone is being so mean to him…which is a bit ironic, given that he’s relatively wealthy, has a nice home, has international prestige, and has a Nobel prize.
Buzzfeed hooked up some of their employees with their favorite childhood toys to get a reaction.
Now I’m remembering my favorite toy: Horrible Hamilton!
There’s a book from the 1970s that’s being called The Most Traumatizing Kids Book Ever. All of the pages are viewable online, and I read the whole thing — it’s short — and it’s just a straightforward description of sex and childbirth, with cute simple pictures.
OK, the smiling jazz-hands baby is a bit inaccurate, but that’s why it’s an un-traumatizing children’s book.
The real thing would have more screaming and blood and slime and bear more of a resemblance to the chest-burster scene in Alien. But otherwise, if I’d known about in the 80s and 90s when I had young kids, I’d have had it around the house for them to learn about sex, with no embarrassment at all.
The existing rules aren’t working, so they’re going to get revamped. In particular, everyone pretty much ignores section V, especially this bit:
2. Justice is more important than civility. But aspire to be charitable at first.
That’s been annoying me for some time now, and it’s time to refocus and re-emphasize, so that means the whole thing is going to re-written.
Yeah, that last post was hard. Here’s something silly.
