Forget yesterday’s weeping icon. The case of the Satanic toaster that was reported back in 1984 is far more impressive. [Read more…]
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Forget yesterday’s weeping icon. The case of the Satanic toaster that was reported back in 1984 is far more impressive. [Read more…]
Forget yesterday’s weeping icon. The case of the Satanic toaster that was reported back in 1984 is far more impressive. [Read more…]
I understand the appeal of voting by mail. I did it once long ago when I was going to be out of town on election day. It was easy and relaxed but did not provide me with the same emotional satisfaction as actually going to the polls so I never repeated it. My polling place is within walking distance and voting on election day (at least in my area) is quick and easy, rarely taking more than fifteen minutes. [Read more…]
As someone who is hopeless at learning languages, I have a deep admiration for those pick up new ones with seeming ease. I am even more impressed by those who provide simultaneous translations, able to achieve the incredible feat of listening to a stream of words entering their heads in one language, translating it in their brains, and then sending the message out in a different language, all the while having a fresh stream of words entering. [Read more…]
In the wake of the Republican defeat, the inevitable finger pointing has begun on the losing side to see who can be blamed and, even more importantly, to avoid blame. [Read more…]
Here’s a mystery, from the Salt Lake Tribune newspaper:
Was a Jesus painting at Holladay’s Prophet Elias Greek Orthodox Church mysteriously crying or was there a more natural explanation for the moisture around the Savior’s eyes?
While almost every election seems decisive and symptomatic of permanent changes, that is rarely the case. In recent elections, Democrats were thought to be dead after the 2004 election only to come roaring back to life in 2006 and 2008. It was the Republicans who were then thought to be dead and then the Tea Party brought them back in 2010. [Read more…]
In the wake of the approval on election day of three referenda in the US approving same-sex marriage and the defeat of one measure that would have banned it, and with Spain upholding its same-sex marriage law and France and the UK poised to introduce legislation to do the same, the pope has dug in his Prada heels and vowed to never stop insisting that marriage is only between a man and a woman, with a Vatican spokesman arguing, “If not, then why not contemplate freely chosen polygamy, and naturally so as to not discriminate, polyandry?” [Read more…]
I said that it became clear early on Tuesday evening that Barack Obama was going to win the election, from the way that certain states that were thought to be close (like Pennsylvania) were called early for Obama and those that were thought to be possibly trending to Romney were not called. [Read more…]
Even those people who treat speed limits as merely suggestions and stop signs as saying ‘slow down and look before you go’ tend to take stopped school buses with flashing lights seriously. You simply know that there’ll be hell to pay if you don’t stop and if some school child gets hit as a result. [Read more…]