Never underestimate the power of small groups of crazy people. All it takes is motivation, small-mindedness, and persistence, and any group can promote ignorance and limit people’s choices.
Here’s another sample of strange creationist email. This one spares the freaky fonts and excessive style changes, and instead we get an abrupt opening with no explanation, and a healthy dose of paranoia.
Hmmm. Maybe I should try some of these techniques.
Some clothing store called Diesel is supposed to have a fashion show tomorrow that will be streamed live to the web. Normally, I wouldn’t give a pickled pucker, but they advertise it as a “journey with us through time and liquid space to a futuristic world of bioluminescence, giant mechanic cephalopods, futuristic aquanauts and mysterious galactic polyps”…and the accompanying images are all of weird jellyfish looking things and strange organic blobs. Hummm. Well. That sounds somewhat interesting.
Denim jeans for squid, do you think?
Maybe skinny naked models draped with ctenophore tentacles, with the welts slowly rising as they strut down the runway to collapse in anaphylactic shock?
Whatever it is, I’m sure my imagination is much better than whatever they’re going to do.
(via Boing Boing)
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.
A 7-year old boy is traveling around the country, standing on street corners and preaching hellfire at passers-by (you can hear him in a recording, too). He’s part of a caravan of Baptists making an expedition up to the land of the Yankees to tell us all we’re going to hell.
Is this abuse? The poor kid is wasting time on the Bible and haranguing random people at the behest of his parents. Oh, excuse me, at the behest of God.
Nice site, that looks like a home-furnishings catalog to me. But then, I’m always disappointed that “Bed, Bath, and Beyond” lacks anything that is truly “beyond.”
Stanley Fish is complaining about atheists again. As you might guess from the last time we went through this, his arguments are poor, and worse, are the same tired apologetics for religion we’ve all heard a thousand times before. Come on, Fish, I expect better from the Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor than a warmed-over platter of scraps left by creationists!
Two videos with surprising similarities: Richard Dawkins and Digby. Both discuss being vilified by conservative forces for being “strident”, and both explain that it’s all about passion for a cause—Digby for progressive politics, Dawkins for godlessness.
Give the Countess a happy word — she’s had her first novel accepted for publication. She’s going to have to let me have a copy to review.
It’s in the erotic romance genre, which suggests there will be lots of tentacles, mucus-slick chitin, and numerous eyes, so I’m sure I’ll be the perfect audience for it. Oh, wait — maybe not? What else could it be about?
