I think Richard Dawkins is rather an ass, and much of the 'debate' is childish to put it mildly, but this is pretty funny anyway.

Update:
An account from the other point of view. Also pretty funny. Especially these two excerpts about the movie:

"Ben Stein’s “Expelled” is one of the more evenhanded, clever, and well-produced documentaries ( Read more... )

• My life has been ridiculously uneventful thus far
• World War 2 is a lot more immediate and personal when told from the point of view of someone who was there...
• We have it easy
• I can't speak Russian worth a damn
• I can't speak English worth a damn either (it's really annoying to put a Russian word I don't know through babelfish and come up with an ( Read more... )

Righteous fury can only be one of the two.

Frustrating to spend a lot of time on a project (or anything else) only to have it amount to nothing.

Then, more time passes, and the frustration becomes less pressing.

Hair of the dog that bites you, I guess.

Depending on the dog.

The line between honor/duty and conceit/martyrdom is getting harder to discern.

Was flabbergasted this morning at the lack of traffic when driving to drop off Usha / get to work. Then remembered "Rosh Hashanah. Newton. Jews." Oh right ( Read more... )

If you're ever feeling intellectually inadequate, go here and start reading.

It's as if all the stupid in the world got together to compare poundcake recipes and collapsed into a supremely dense neutron star. The star rotates rapidly, emitting intense pulses of idiocy at predictable intervals. Caution advised: the stupidity, it burns.

( More pain... )

Letter to the editor: "The theory of evolution does not and cannot explain so much about the universe that we know. For instance, when and how did water evolve? How does it happen that gravity can hold us to the Earth, and at the same time allow us to step up without any trouble? How did it happen that the Earth is spinning at the exact rate that ( Read more... )

An interview with David Berlinski
But wait, there's more:
Part 2

Something strike you odd about the flow of the interview? A bit contrived, perhaps, even accounting for sympathetic journalism? Here's an interesting factoid: the interviewer and interviewee are one person.

I know some people who occasionally talk a bit like that (V, Ynqq, Nepnqv ( Read more... )

( A few years ago, with my roommate and the Queen Mother... )