In the last few years the advancement of civil rights has led to the Catholic Church doing things like threatening to close (or perhaps acutally close) orphanages because they refuse to consider placing a child with a same sex couple.

I strongly disagree with this, but at least there could be, in a different world, evidence that such a child would ( Read more... )

intemporaliter  and I will be flying back to Edinburgh Friday evening, and leaving Wednesday morning.

Who is out and about Friday night? Late night at the pub?

So I was talking about a short story that included time travel last ( Read more... )

The subject is not a joke: "I brought some. Here I'll let them roam around. There is no reason only poor people should be infected."

For those not a the conference, Bill gave you plenty of bugs already - just run his software.

I saw this via dailykos, who saw it at foreignpolicy, where this is Tacitus's Annals, book VI.

" First, the Twelve Tables prohibited any one from exacting more than 10 per cent., when, previously, the rate had depended on the caprice of the wealthy. Subsequently, by a bill brought in by the tribunes, interest was reduced to half that amount, and ( Read more... )

Obama has promised to implement some kludged form of universal health insurance in the USA. So the opponents are again coming out in force to scare the public into opposing the idea. The latest from ABC news (one of the big 3 networks) is

Universal Healthcare and the Waistline Police
I am surprised they did not autoplay spooky music when you visit ( Read more... )

In all the disappointing prop-8 fallout, I have run across one good satire: defining Christmas.

Hmmm...I'll make this post public.

I will vote for the democrat, but I have changed my mind about contributing any money.


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I found this the other day when looking for pirate-y music for
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Four word movie reviews, such as

Best In Show (2000) 'This Is Spaniel Tap'
Bridge On The River Kwai, The (1957) Big bridge goes P.O.W.
Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl (2003) High-sea dead people.