Seriously. So he was on holiday when the LJ drama exploded a couple of weeks ago, he should be back by now, right? I mean, that Barak guy said he'd have a lot of explaining to do when Brad got back. He's really still on holiday? Or was that just another lie to add to all the others?

Seriously, WTF?Summary for the lazy - individual says that men don't pay attention to women lecturers in university classes, thus proving that women should not teach men. I say that I've never seen that, it must be an artifact of their culture and not a good one. She says I'm insulting Southern culture, I say that if that's Southern culture, it ( Read more... )

And the award for least convincing April Fools Joke goes to.. [drumroll]... Chocolate Jesus!A planned Holy Week exhibition of a nude, anatomically correct chocolate sculpture of Jesus Christ was canceled Friday after Cardinal Edward Egan and other outraged Catholics complained ( Read more... )

Via just a whole heap of different places (but it doesn't yet seem to have propagated through to the Brits, which is why I'm posting it), George Takei responds to Tim Hardway's homophobic rant, and does it in quite masterful style.

"One cannot ask whether a theory reflects reality, just whether it agrees with observations."
-Professor Stephen Hawking

That was from an interview with Professor Hawking broadcast by the BBC on Thursday (hear the whole thing as an mp3 download here, it's fascinating). He was talking about the prospect of other dimensions, not really relevant here ( Read more... )

I usually get 60 or 70 spam E-mails a day. Annoying, but something I can cope with, and it's still possible to quickly sift through the spam folder and find the stuff which has been placed there incorrectly. I cleared out my spam folder early this afternoon ( Read more... )

I'm not a fan of Pope Benedict XVI at the best of times, but that said, the current fracas over his recent comments on Islam probably deserve to be mentioned. The Muslim world has errupted into criticism over a lecture he gave at the University of Regensburg on September 12. Here are the offending remarks:Show me just what Mohammed brought that was ( Read more... )

Plenty of people, apparently.

Sometimes the stupidity of the human race just boggles me.

OK, so this bomb plot. Obiously, it is good that it was stopped. That goes without saying. But I'm being driven slowly insane by two different things right now ( Read more... )

From the Jerusalem Post (hardly a bastion of leftwing antiwar sentiment, you know):Defense officials told the Post last week that they were receiving indications from the US that America would be interested in seeing Israel attack Syria.
What was that about paranoia? Anyone? Thankfully, by the looks of things, Israel's government is not completely ( Read more... )