How embarrassing.
Wow! You are awesome! You are a true Biblical scholar, not just a hearer but a personal reader! The books, the characters, the events, the verses – you know it all! You are fantastic!
Oh, well…Zeno did much worse.
It’s that time when universities get on their knees and beg the state for continuing support (hey, isn’t that all the time?), and my colleague Pete Wyckoff gave some testimony at the Minnesota capitol the other day. It’s good stuff that summarizes the financial dilemma students are facing everywhere as tuition climbs and the government cuts back.
Maybe I should plan on steering clear of the place—they do seem a little trigger-happy. The must-reads of the day are Bruce Schneier and Teresa Nielsen Hayden on the ridiculous over-reaction of the mayor and police in Boston to a trivial (if obnoxious) ad campaign.
Brent exposes an interesting Massachusetts law:
Whoever wilfully blasphemes the holy name of God by denying, cursing or contumeliously reproaching God, his creation, government or final judging of the world, or by cursing or contumeliously reproaching Jesus Christ or the Holy Ghost, or by cursing or contumeliously reproaching or exposing to contempt and ridicule, the holy word of God contained in the holy scriptures shall be punished by imprisonment in jail for not more than one year or by a fine of not more than three hundred dollars, and may also be bound to good behavior.
Uh-oh. I think I’m a … criminal. And oh, yeah—I’m contumelious. Contumelious like the dickens.
Let’s all catch up with the latest carnivals, shall we?
Otherwise, a few long threads are sucking all the air out of this place. Say whatever you think, as long as it doesn’t involve cartoon characters and their creators.
That Dilbert guy, I don’t envy at all. The Bad Astronomy guy, maybe a little bit. He’s got a clip of his appearance with Penn and Teller now, in which he rebuts the moon landing conspiracy theorists.
Of course, the real reason we know the moon landings were faked is that if they’d actually landed there, they would have sunk into 50 feet of soft and fluffy moon dust and never been seen again. Plait never answers that one.
Tara is talking about a trial that’s putting the HIV-denialists in the same position the creationists were in the Kitzmiller trial—having to publicly defend absurdities in a critical venue. It sounds like they aren’t coming off well, and this might be another trial where we collect amusing snippets of testimony. Maybe I just have a sick sense of humor, but I thought this was hilarious.
She was asked by prosecutor Sandi McDonald whether “you would have unprotected vaginal sex with a HIV-positive man”.
“Any time,” replied Ms Papadopulos-Eleopulos.
Slut.
Well, heck, Darren Naish has been posting here for a week, so it’s past time to give a belated welcome to Tetrapod Zoology, the latest addition to the Scienceblogs family of fine sci-punditry.
Well, obviously, the problem isn’t the “screwing up”, it’s that the teacher was caught, so you make that more difficult. In this case, the Kearney school district has decided to ban tape recorders in the classroom. That sounds smart.
It makes me wonder how many teachers other than David Paszkiewicz are peddling ignorant cant in Kearney classrooms, that they have to make a special effort to protect them from exposure.
Oh, and my students can tape my classes any time they want.
