Good day to you, one and all!

It is once again Wednesday, and therefore once again time to share that greatest of wealth with one another -that stash of internet goodies you have been hording in your favourites section. As with every week, we take this moment to provide one another with links to the entertainment which is freely available across ( Read more... )

I’ve pointed out a time or three that one of the central tenets of modern christianity is that their god, Yahweh, is an absolutely inept communicator, incapable of making himself understood or speaking and a coherent or comprehensible way; the bible is about 90% stuff that you’re apparently not supposed to take literally, or indeed observe at all, ( Read more... )

I don't know if The Onion has recently hired some new writers or something, but a lot of their recent stuff has been awesomely cockpunching. Like a return to their glory days.

It seems that the other day, it somehow made the news that some US serviceman out there somewhere had bought into the tired old "fake birth certificate" meme that has been floating around in the American right-wing media for the past year or so and referred to President Obama as a "Usurper". While this would not under ordinary circumstances be of ( Read more... )

I'm sure that many of
you have heard, recently, about the recent resolution passed by representatives of various countries dominated by the ridiculous bullshit religion of Islam, within the United Nations Council on Human Rights, that any criticism of their ridiculous and laughable faith be considered a violation of the human rights of those who ( Read more... )

Preamble: For those of you unfamilliar with the workings of the Canadian government, much of this will be, shall we say, somewhat foreign to you. Suffice it to say that the Governor-General of Canada - the Queen's representative in Canada - has granted our loathesome right-wing thug of a Prime Minister's request to shut down the government for two ( Read more... )

Last night, I had cause to look at my user profile here at Livejournal, and was pleasantly surprised to see that I was now on seventy-five friends lists. I was aware that there had been something of an upswing lately, but this was nevertheless rather dramatic. Indeed, it struck me as something of a milestone. Something which called for a ( Read more... )

For those of you who have no interest in Canadian politics, you might want to skip over this one. For those who are interested in principle but don't know anything about the functioning of the Canadian federal government, a super-quick primer:

( a quick primer under the cut )

Yesterday, I went down to the Superior Court, answering a summons for Jury Duty. It was an interesting experience, but one which was somewhat futile and frustrating in that I spent about eight hours there and didn't actually get selected for any of the three trials they had me attend the Jury panels for.

This is kind of disappointing; I had ( Read more... )

I just read a great little article on the documentation of a new type of lizard which has evolved on a little island in the adriatic. Long story short: About 37 years ago, some scientists transplanted a group of these lizards from one island to another; the latter being climatologically similar, but having different enough environmental factors to ( Read more... )