I’m spending about a week in Florida, so don’t expect too many posts here for a while.
I’m in a hotel room in Atlanta at the moment. I’ll be finishing the drive to Florida tomorrow.
Also, I stubbed my toe and split my toe nail down the middle about 1/3 inch. Don’t click here if you’re squeamish. (Sorry for the huge file size. I don’t have anything to edit images on the lappy.)
After whoring out the link to my previous post on Rachael Ray and Michelle Malkin to family and friends, I’ve been getting a lot of hate toward Ms. Ray over IM and email. Is there a reason why many of you don’t like her? I admit I don’t know much about the woman, so I don’t have any reason to like her or dislike her. Could someone enlighten me on the positives and negatives of Rachael Ray? All I know is that she’s a cookbook author and a chef. Does she vocalise some sort of strange political or religious belief?
Rachael Ray shot an online add for Dunkin Donuts wearing a stylish paisley scarf.
I think the scarf is rather attractive on Ms. Ray. Michelle Malkin, a snivelling cunt who would probably be the next Bill O’Reilly if she wasn’t brown and a woman (it’s hard to spew hate about brown people and women when you’re both), disagrees.
The Washington Post has the story.
Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan writes in a new memoir that the Iraq war was sold to the American people with a sophisticated “political propaganda campaign” led by President Bush and aimed at “manipulating sources of public opinion” and “downplaying the major reason for going to war.”
Scott Adams, noted woo woo and distinguished nutcase, sometimes gets it right.
For instance, last Sunday’s Dilbert comic has me to a tee. Except my hair isn’t triangular and my name isn’t Alice.
Click to enlarge pictures.
Via Wired Science:
Phoenix descending to the surface of Mars, full version.
Via Bad Astronomy:
Phoenix sitting on Mars with jettisoned heat shield and parachute nearby.
I was browsing Yahoo Answers’ astronomy and space section, because sometimes listening to a gigantic horde of drooling, mouth-breathing troglodytes makes me feel better about my own flaws, when I came across this:
Who thinks Project Blue Beam is really gonna happen, leading to NWO?
Phil Plait, the Bad Astronomer, has just made Carl Sagan very proud.
Anyone who says that science cannot produce anything so awe-inspiring can now go hide in a corner.
Via University of Arizona, several pictures from Phoenix. The link has more, and more are coming in soon.
Click for full sizes.
The spacecraft has landed but the mission is just starting. Here’s a list of links where you can catch up on all the news regarding our new Martian laboratory.
We’re there again, as a result of a massive collaborative effort, and we’re ready to learn so much more about our planetary neighbour. I’m stoked!
The Phoenix spacecraft has just landed near the Martian North Pole. In twenty minutes, the dust will have settled and it can begin its work digging through the soil and ice, looking for signs that Mars is hospitable to microbial life. I’ll try to keep you updated on how it goes.
The Roanoke Times has its fair share of religious pandering, but occasionally they get the right idea.
This cartoon by Chris OBrion illustrates the recent ACLU investigations of Craig County’s Bible classes.
Many of you are still using the RSS feed from my old blog, Unorthodox Atheism, to read Homosecular Gaytheist. This is fine and dandy for a few more days, but the feed will disappear into the abyss of dead cyberspace soon. The feed for Homosecular Gaytheist, for the 200 of you who haven’t switched over yet, is here: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Gaytheist
I just looked at yesterday’s newspaper and felt a glimmer of hope for Southwest Virginia.
One of the front page stories was “Religion Course at School Disputed: The ACLU is looking into the unconstitutionality of a class approved in Craig County.”
My racist, homophobic, bigoted grandmother is in town.
No more than 30 minutes after arriving, she pushed me into a discussion about politics. If you can’t tell from my description of her, she’s a staunch Republican. Even for Central Louisiana, she’s a religious whacko.
President Yahya A.J.J. Jammeh of Gambia, a West African nation under military rule, has just announced that all gays and lesbians–”bad elements”– have 24 hours to flee the country before they will be slaughtered wholesale, reports The Advocate.
It’s rare you find a decent Monty Python scene redone on YouTube. However, they exist.
“James Carville’s better-looking cousin…” :-P
(Via Threat Level)
Stella and Elles had an interesting idea today. Let’s bombard Oprah with emails to get Richard Dawkins on her show. Why? Because it would be fucking fun, that’s why!
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