Archive for October, 2007

Tuesday afternoon, I was on an Amtrak train on my way up to the Twin Cities. I had just come back from the snack car and was enjoying a delicious microwave cinnamon roll when the chef came back from the dining car with a cheesecake that he had messed up, and said that the first [...]

After suing YouTube for copyright infringement for hosting clips of The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, South Park, and other shows, Viacom is offering all episodes of The Daily Show ever aired on their own YouTube-like website.
/me anxiously awaits the launch of a companion site for the Colbert Report — Colbert for President ‘08!

Daily Mail: Muslims tell Christians: ‘Make peace with us or survival of world is at stake’
Prominent Muslim scholars are warning that the “survival of the world” is at stake if Muslims and Christians do not make peace with each other.
Yes, yes, we know all about the bombings and the innocent civilians.
In an unprecedented [...]

Yahoo: Naked chocolate Jesus rises again in New York
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A life-size chocolate sculpture of a naked Jesus will finally be displayed in New York starting in late October, seven months after an outcry by Roman Catholics forced a different gallery to cancel its exhibition.
The chocolate Jesus will be joined by sculptures of [...]

The Challenge: If you believe that women should be required to cover their hair in order to be treated like people instead of objects, please explain to me why Fabio does not have to cover his long, shiny, attractive to women, blond hair. “Because God/Allah said so” does not count as an answer.
Remember, I am [...]

From Daylight Atheism:
A frequent refrain among the religious right is that the United States of America is a “Christian nation”, or that this country was founded on Christian principles. However, I’ve never seen any religious apologist explain what exactly this is supposed to mean beyond making the mere statement. If this nation was founded on [...]

And why are they pissed? Because Google didn’t honor Memorial Day and Veterans’ Day! That means they hate America!!
Chicago Tribune: Google logo tweak sends critics into orbit
“It’s a kick to your belly,” said conservative blogger Giovanni Gallucci, 39, a social media consultant from Dallas. “I understand these guys are scientists and engineers and they have [...]

It is not supposed to be 90F in October! Please rectify this situation immediately.
Regards,
Cassie

And in Iran, of course, riding a bike is one of the many, many things that women can’t do in public without making men insatiably, violently aroused and irresponsible for their actions!
Oh, but don’t worry, there’s a solution in the works:
Iran plans to make special bicycles designed for women that will be compatible with Islamic [...]