Archive for January, 2008

Many thanks to Crabby for linking me to Violent Acres, who I’ve just added to my Technorati favorites for taking the words right out of my mouth re: Hillary Clinton, and for giving me the kick in the ass I needed to stop feeling sorry for myself and get back on my Weight Loss Plan.
Now, [...]

The bad news is that I failed the road test for the second time. For those of you who are now wondering, yes, I am 24 years old. I’m now working on my eighth year as a freak with no driver’s license.
The good news is that I fixed MythTV. So now I can watch commercial-free [...]

For your WTFing pleasure, BBC: Africa ‘lagging on child deaths’
Poverty and war are harming advances in infant mortality, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, a new Unicef report on global child health has said.
Globally, 62 countries were making no or insufficient progress towards a key 2015 child mortality target, it said.
The Evil Atheist Conspiracy has gone [...]

I knew what you were giving me, because there are very few reasons people shove random bits of paper in your hands while you’re minding your own business, and yours is number one. I folded it over and put it in my pocket, hoping for some quality entertainment after I got home. But you disappointed [...]

From Barefoot Bum via Pharyngula: There Must Be Violence Against Women
If a man and woman are husband and wife, the Qur’an provides solutions, firstly reaffirming any logical and acceptable reasons for such punishment. These solutions are in gradual phases and not just for women, but for men also.
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Despite such instructions, beating is considered a type [...]

(07:32:57 PM) Cassie: O.o
(07:33:27 PM) Cassie: do you know if there’s any way to get sent back to the spirit healer after you’ve left the graveyard?
(07:34:01 PM) Dave: not that I can think of, why?
(07:34:02 PM) Cassie: Shandrell was doing a quest near the edge of the tree and fell off
(07:34:21 PM) Dave: THE tree?
(07:34:27 [...]