Natter 43: I Love My Dead Gay Whale Crosspost.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
"There's an interesting debate in the world, is whether or not freedom is universal, see, whether or not -- you know, there's old Bush imposing his values. See, I believe freedom is universal ... The way I put it was, there is an almighty God. One of the greatest gifts of that almighty God is the desire for people to be free, is freedom."
Why is it that I can only hear this in Jon Stewart's version of Bush? "See, I believe freedom is universal...heh heh heh..."
Igluprojekt (Google-translated) A 100-igloo village built in the shape of a snowflake. (And be sure to click on "Press" for some hilarious auto-translating.)
"De Tocqueville, who's a French guy, came in 1832 and recognized and wrote back -- wrote a treatise about what it means to go to a country where people have -- associate voluntarily to serve their communities."
I love this SO MUCH.
I love this SO MUCH.
If he weren't so damn powerful, if he were just the smiley guy who stands on the corner in his bathrobe waving at the buses, it'd be endearing. If only.
That one was very nice. This one's scarier:
You know, for example, you'll be confronted with a very difficult debate between science, on the one hand, and the hopes of science, and life.
Damn that anti-life science!
The result of all this is I now crave an entire tube of Ritz crackers.
Damn that anti-life science!
Hm. Maybe that's why all the funding to my group of Doomsday Physicists got cut. We were really hoping to get that 450-A-258 Space Modulator up and running to blow up the Earth within the next couple of years.
Anglican leader opposes creationism in school
LONDON - The spiritual leader of the world’s Anglicans does not believe that creationism — the Bible-based account of the world’s origins — should be taught in schools.
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Williams, head of a church that has no problem with the Darwinian theory of evolution, told The Guardian newspaper: “I think creationism is, in a sense, a kind of category mistake, as if the Bible were a theory, like other theories.”
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“Religion has become politicized in America. That is not the case here. This is not a major issue,” religious commentator and broadcaster Clifford Longley told Reuters. “There is no intellectual credibility given to creationism in this country. There is no parallel between English evangelicals and American evangelicals.
"When I wrote an article saying there were no creationists in Britain, they both wrote to me.”
Heh.
"When I wrote an article saying there were no creationists in Britain, they both wrote to me.”
Oh, fuck that's funny.