What's offensive about the term "origin myth"? Are the creation stories of other religions less valid just because they're equally as unscientific as the Judeo-Christian one?

Because people of faith don't appreciate having any part of their religion called a "myth."

It's like calling a middle-aged African-American man "boy." Or saying to Jilli, "You should wear hot pink."

I think it was the "gangs of armed men roaming the city" that was overstated, IIRC, Hec.

Yeah, it's more like mobs of desperate people now. I'm hearing about a lot of carjackings to get out.

I'm fucking boggled that there are still people on roofs in St. Bernard Parish. That they didn't have National Guard and the military on the streets within two days. No matter where you are in the freakin' continental USA, you should be able to get thousands of military personnel on the streets within two days.

I think the Royals can be considered a greater tradegy.

Dennis Hastert thinks the Royals should be bulldozed and not rebuilt.

Or saying to Jilli, "You should wear hot pink."

Jilli actually wears a fair amount of pink. It's the new Goth.

Jilli actually wears a fair amount of pink. It's the new Goth.

This is true. Pink trim, pink & black stripy socks, pink shoes. All of these things appear in my wardrobe.

Jilli actually wears a fair amount of pink. It's the new Goth.

I meant this one particular Pantone shade... oh, never mind.

The TiVo took me away from the desperation on CNN to the glorious inanity of PTI. Praise be, blessed TiVo.

Praise be, blessed TiVo.

It is a worthy god. Bringing to mind a Futurama line I heard last night, "Why couldn't he pick a mainstream religion like Oprah-ism or Voodoo?"

Bringing to mind a Futurama line I heard last night, "Why couldn't he pick a mainstream religion like Oprah-ism or Voodoo?"

I think that's my favorite Futurama line ever.

Unless I'm forgetting one....

but two out of four of those theories were strictly scientific theories, even if they are now considered archaic.

Well, not "strictly". I'll venture that alchemy was never a science, as we define science. As for physics, even in the late 1800s, during the last gasp of phlogiston (soon to be atoms), everybody admitted it was a "I don't know, and can't think of anything, and that is a nice name to put on my non-knowledge" type of deal. Before that, phlogiston was totally conjecture, the way that Leonardo da Vinci conjectured that the eyes weer anatomically linked to the soul.

Conjecture has its role in science, but conjecture and theory aren't the same thing, despite their similar uses in the vernacular.

I'm fucking boggled that there are still people on roofs in St. Bernard Parish. That they didn't have National Guard and the military on the streets within two days.

The streets were underwater, and in fairness, no one could know the scope of the disaster it has become; no one knew how many people stayed. The desperation and the widespread anarchy seems to have arisen within the last 24 hours.