So remember when I said that I wanted to write more than book reviews over here? Yeah, I remember that.... Well, as I have been gently reminded, the recent events in Japan this weekend are pretty good as far as blogging fodder. This is for several reasons: they're dramatic, and I am far enough away from said events that I am not only alive, but ( Read more... )

First of all, there's Pat Robertson saying that the Haiti Earthquake is because Haitians had made a pact with Satan:


Pat Robertson on Haiti Disaster
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Then we have Rush Limbaugh who wonders why Obama would respond faster to an earthquake that kills 100,000 people than to a failed underwear bomber:

All I can make are guttural howling ( Read more... )

Book Thirty-four

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Bishop Richard Williamson, a formerly excommunicated bishop who was reinstated just last week, said on Swedish television that he believes the Holocaust didn't happen, and specifically that there were no gas chambers. He claims that only a few hundred thousand Jews were killed, rather than the normally accepted six million, and none of them by ( Read more... )

Bill Kristol has lost his column at the New York Times. The the bottom of his latest column, there's the tiny italicised note: This is William Kristol’s last column.

Ah, that warms my soul....

If you're wondering who Bill Kristol is, he's one of the main water-carriers for the Neocon movement. He is a co-founder of the Project for the New ( Read more... )

1) I made this Google widget a long while ago, and now it's finally finished counting down to the End of the Dubyacracy:


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I've been reading about the US Airways plane that made a water landing, and as I've been doing so I've been looking for a very specific word ( Read more... )

From NASA.com:MEDIA ADVISORY : M09-005 ( Read more... )

The porn industry wants money.

Larry Flynt is going to ask Congress for $5 billion to help the beleaguered porn industry during this economic downturn. Which is money he admits they don't actually need. But, as Flynt said in his statement, porn is just what the country needs right now. "People are too depressed to be sexually active. This is ( Read more... )

The 5.12 Earthquake Strips

Short stories of events surrounding the recent earthquake in China, illustrated by Chinese illustrator Coco Wang. Absolutely heartbreaking...