Happy news for Stevens County: Senate Candidate Al Franken will be speaking in Morris this Thursday (Oct. 11) at 7:00 in the Science Auditorium on the UMM campus, in a talk is sponsored by the UMM College Democrats. No charge, open to the public, everyone should come.
I’ll be there!
The latest round of indignant lawsuits by those irked at negative reviews: Left Behind Games isn’t too happy with their game’s reception in the blogosphere, so they’ve started sending out threats of lawsuits to silence the critics. One of the letters is online, another target is Daily Kos, and most amusingly of all, the CEO of the company tried to plead for Christian charity from on critic before deciding to wave a lawyer at him.
It’s an awfully silly strategy. Bloggers have loud mouths, but don’t have deep pockets. These attempts at legal harrassment are only going to win them negative publicity, and no money at all.
As I mentioned earlier, I’m going to be in Madison this weekend for the Freedom from Religion Foundation convention. A bunch of IIDBers are also attending, and they’ve suggested a meetup over lunch (12-2) on Saturday, the 13th, at an Irish pub called Brocach. That sounds good to me — a meeting of the IIDB and the Pharynguloid sects of the Atheism cult, over beer.
Auto-da-fe of any schismatics and heretics afterwards!
Another Republican has been caught playing footsie in a bathroom stall. And he’s got such a perfect Republican name — Joey DiFatta — and such a perfect Republican look — pale and plump — that I hate to see him go.
There’s only one thing we can do. We have to make toe-tapping illegal. It’s obviously the root cause of a lot of vice and criminal activity.
I don’t even want to think about the horrible things Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire must have done. And Shirley Temple…!
I have to hammer on one more thing from Sam Harris’s reply. He objects to the label “atheism” because it will chase away people who do not want to … well, read what he says.
They have read the writings of the “new atheists,” sent us letters and emails of support, are quite fond of criticizing religion whenever the opportunity arises, but they have no interest whatsoever in joining a cult of such critics. And there is something cult-like about the culture of atheism. In fact, much of the criticism I have received of my speech is so utterly lacking in content that I can only interpret it as a product of offended atheist piety.
I was sent this by Pekka Pekuri on Facebook, and all I can say is…niiiice.
Where is Superman when we need him?
I just had an odd idea for another of those blog memes, and this is very much an experiment. It may be too complex to last long, but I just want to toss it out and see if anything interesting happens; it’s one where the answers may be interesting in one way, but the structure of the questions might be interesting in another way. Here are the instructions:
The best response so far (much better than mine) is Possum Momma’s. She points out that all the sins Siegel sees expressed in the godless seem to be just as prominent in contemporary Christians.
I really didn’t need to know about “Christian Domestic Discipline” or Christian porn.
Good news: the new education commissioner for Florida is not Cheri Yecke. It’s someone named Eric Smith, about whom I know nothing, so we’ll have to wait and see if they’re an improvement.
Ugh. The improvement is only marginal. He’s another conservative testing rodent who thinks the answer is privatizing schools.
One last compendium, I think, unless I find unusually large quantities of Cephalopod Awareness links in my mailbox tomorrow.
A whole museum dedicated to octopus balls? The Japanese can be very strange, Tikistitch.
What? A whole collection of squid posts at Progressive Gold, and I’ve been missing them?
What? Is that woman vomiting up a tentacle? Or is that supposed to be her tongue? I don’t know whether I’m supposed to gag or be aroused.
A Nude, Transexual, Pornographic LOLCthulhu. Enough said.
A few more from the Cuttlefish Poet:
Architeuthis Double-Dactyl
Haughtily, naughtily
Deep-sea biologists
Claimed “We will never find
Fifty-foot squid!”
Nobody told, though, the
Cryptoteuthologist
Blissfully ignorant,
That’s what he did.
Nautilus Limerick
The nautilus swims back-to front
Which is quite an unusual stunt
But his shell–which is odd
For a cephalopod–
When he bumps into things, bears the brunt!
Cuttlefish Physiology Limerick
Look again, and you might doubt your eyes:
It’s the cuttlefish, cloaked in disguise!
As it changes, within
Its remarkable skin
Are chromatophores, changing in size.
