Left this on a comment at another blog, but it basically repeats something I wrote on FB when it happened ( Read more... )

Archbishop Bans Pop Music at Funerals - NYTimes.com:On Thursday in Australia, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne announced a ban on the playing of pop music at funerals, which, he said, are not to be described as “a celebration of the life of” the deceased ( Read more... )

Dumbass Quote of the Day : Dispatches from the Culture Wars:And why is his focus solely on this Islamic center? After all, those evil Muslims attacked the Pentagon that day too. And guess what? We've got Muslims worshiping openly at the Pentagon four days a week!

Audit: NASA paid $66 per person for 'light refreshments' at procurement confab | person, audit, procurement - News - Northwest Florida Daily News:The nation's space agency paid the out-of-this-world price of $66 a person a day for bagels, cookies and juice at a conference, a new report found ( Read more... )

Consider this two-part law of how stuff ends up in your inbox:

(1) There are people out there who have never seen some moldering viral video, say "JK Wedding Entrance Dance." They were not among the video's 41 million-plus YouTube viewers, they did not see it replayed infinitely on the morning shows, they did not visit the couple's hyped Web site, ( Read more... )

Those ranting against amazon's price-fixing (not the dropping of the macmillan titles, which was stupid, but the $9.99 price point that amazon wanted rather than letting the publishers have full control over the prices) are totally missing one key point: if amazon can't offer a cost difference between what they offer and what iTunes offers, then ( Read more... )

Pharyngula: Say what?:Speaking of incessant, grating whines…here's another Minnesota pest, Michele Bachmann. She spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference (by invitation…how deranged have the Republicans become, anyway?) and offered this jewel of logic:

I just wondered that if our founders thought taxation without representation ( Read more... )