This cartoon is from 2008 but it never ceases to be topical.
Mano Singham
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This cartoon is from 2008 but it never ceases to be topical.
At the opening of a recent conference in Cancun, the executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change invoked the Mayan goddess Ixchel as “the goddess of reason, creativity and weaving. May she inspire you — because today, you are gathered in Cancun to weave together the elements of a solid response to climate change, using both reason and creativity as your tools.”
This caused considerable snickering among our Christian commentariat at these strange and obviously false gods.
I think it is time to show again a cartoon that I suspect is going to get a lot of use.
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As a fun extra, try and identify the five atheist Santas and post them in the comments.
(Thanks to Randy from CFI for the cartoon.)
The opening segment from last week’s show nails the media.
For those too young to be aware of what this parody is based on, or for those who are nostalgic, here’s the original Greased Lightning from the film Grease (1978).
Recently, I have been receiving highly critical spam comments. Here is one typical example:
What a waste of time. You’re [sic] poor english [sic] made this article hard to read. Learn to write.
I have to admit I am puzzled by the psychology of this. One form that spam comments take is to give an effusive but generic compliment (“Your blog is great!”), presumably to flatter me so that I won’t delete it. It never works but I can understand the strategy.
But I am totally baffled by what the spammer hopes to achieve with an insult.
And if you think that it is an exaggeration, read this description by Ted Rall about what people are going through.
This website highlights ambiguous sentences from letters of recommendation.