Gee, people seem to have slowed in sending me announcements, or it’s a slow summer week, but I only have two carnivals to report: I and the Bird #53 (it’s their second anniversary!) and Friday Ark #147.
I can also say that next week is time for the Tangled Bank, to be held at The Voltage Gate on 18 July. Send links to me or host@tangledbank.net.
Go below the fold to comment on anything you want, or to see the recent collection of cephalart (it’s also been a while since I ran one of those.)
Two more carnivals made an appearance today, and although they don’t have a lot in common with each other, here you go: you can read about genetics at Mendel’s Garden #16 and/or godlessness at the Carnival of the Godless #70.
Oy, I have so much catching up to do…
All right, tell me what else is new in the universe outside the Pacific Northwest.
Carnivals! We’re hawking Carnivals!
The next Tangled Bank will be held on Wednesday, the 4th of July, at Aardvarchaeology. Send those patriotic, all-American links in to the Swedish guy, to me, or to host@tangledbank.net.
Beyond that, this is an open thread. Say something profound.
Here’s your course of action. First, tune up your brain with Encephalon #25. Feeling smart now?
Next, browse The Carnival of the Godless #69. Now you’re smart and aggressively, skeptically godless. Sharp as a knife.
Now you’re ready to read Revere’s Sunday Sermonette. You will be entertained. It’s an account of a Georgia pastor wrestling with theodicy, and he refreshingly concludes that a) yes, god is screwing with you and making you suffer, and b) his explanation is that god is making sure you don’t forget him. God is a petty tyrant who torments you to remind you that he exists.
You should be feeling pretty cocky at this point. These theological arguments are so silly and shallow and superficial, and you can just slice right through them.
Unfortunately, Greg Laden is going to slime you with a loogey gun next. Watching Michele Bachmann talk about god is agonizing—god was apparently “focused like a laser beam” on her congressional race; the omnipotent omniscient ruler of the entire universe thought a political contest in a small Minneapolis suburb was the most important event in the whole cosmos, and was personally wielding his vast power to get a babbling boob into office.
Hah. What good does all your brain power and reason and logic do against that, I ask you? If there were a god, Michele Bachmann would be evidence that he is evil and he is screwing with us.
We have a few carnivals for your Friday afternoon delectation…
Otherwise, talk among yourselves. I’m going to be helping a swarm of new freshmen register for their fall classes for a while.
The latest edition of the Tangled Bank is available at gregladen.com, but don’t give Greg any credit for it. It’s written by some guy named Derwin Darwin II; Laden is probably slacking off at the lake, fishing.
The next Tangled Bank will be held at Greg Laden’s digs on 20 June — send those links in to me or host@tangledbank.net.
Savor a little end-of-the-week reading.
