I’m mortified to say that I’ve been watching a lot of olympic ice skating lately. Not the cool short-track kind, or even the boring time-trial kind with the funny-looking people in gumby suits, but the dancing kind, where there’s nothing actually happening except for skating around and jumping and twirling. It’s mind-numbingly dull: everyone does [...]
Flemming Rose, the Danish editor who commissioned the cartoons that have set the Muslim world on fire, speaks out:
Has Jyllands-Posten [the newspaper in which the cartoons were published] insulted and disrespected Islam? It certainly didn’t intend to. But what does respect mean? When I visit a mosque, I show my respect by taking [...]
One thing we’ve learned from Vice President Cheney’s unfortunate hunting accident is that there’s lots of ways to introduce high-velocity metal projectiles into a person’s body, some of them not so serious. Generally, when I think of the chain of events that begins with someone pulling a trigger and ends with a bullet penetrating another [...]
So apparently Dick Cheney shot someone in a hunting accident this weekend. We didn’t hear it from his office, though. We heard it from the woman who owns the ranch he was hunting on. She called a local newspaper and spilled the beans.
The line from the White House is that they decided not to tell [...]
If you want proof positive that the doctrine of Creationism is a bunch of hooey, check out this story about a parasite called Toxoplasma gondii. Toxoplasma has a fairly complex lifecycle. It lives in the digestive system of cats, but lays eggs that get crapped out and then consumed by rats. Once inside the rat, [...]
I hate shaving, not just because it’s boring and a pain in the ass but also because I’m very bad at it. You may wonder how one could be bad at scraping hair off of one’s face using a razor with a moveable head and three blades and a little aloe healing aloe strip along [...]
Last week sucked. It sucked in three different ways:
I was attacked by a pernicious virus that rendered me deflated and ensnotted and sinus-blocked and intellectually worthless I got hit by a shitstorm of problems at work that sucked away most of my time and left me drained and googly-eyed by the end of each day I found [...]
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