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... )

Conversation with Saffy, Alex and Mariya turns from Halloween to finances.

Me: Citizens gave back those missing 33 cents.
Alex: Man, I can't believe you noticed. How could you possibly know?
Me: The spreadsheet didn't add up.
Alex: Spreadsheet?!
Me: Yeah. I calculate out my finances. I have charts, and everything...
Alex: Wow. That's what you ( Read more... )

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... )

An animated geographical history of some major religions.


Pity it's not transparent/shaded to indicate overlap, especially toward the end.

(taken from this post)

And, for something completely different, this is just wrong...


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Why you have to be careful printing out a Haggadah from the internet:
Wouldn't "dayeinu" make a great safeword?

Just a thought.
No, seriously, this is a note on Page 20 of this. (pdf link)

I missed the bit at the start that said 'A Seder for the leather community.'

Yikes...

"Once jews get in your family they turn everything into a mess because they create half-jews that often hang around other jews, but may act white and marry non-jews and 'adopt' their customs or in the same token, marry a jew and create more semi-whatever jews.

It's very confusing."

(bloodcurdling source)

Confusing indeed. The few times I've been ( Read more... )

Been a while, so here are some links to assertions of the less-sane kind...
Redefining...

• Constant: "pi changes depending upon the strength of the gravitational field involved."
  
• Psychology: "At the risk of sounding extraordinarily sexist, I'm convinced that women ... are programmed to worry their men are going to abandon them."
  
• Criminal ( Read more... )

We've all done it: you hear something that offends your sensibilities, and decide how you feel prior to looking into (or caring about) the details ( Read more... )

Thought I'd summarize.
( Danish Muhammad cartoons... )