AN executive jet is being used by the American intelligence agencies to fly terrorist suspects to countries that routinely use torture in their prisons. Who says so? That crazy, unreliable, tinfoil hat conspiracy rag, The Sunday Times Bob Baer, a former CIA operative in the Middle East, said: “If you want a serious interrogation you send a prisoner to Jordan.… Read more →
Category: Head-Explodes
Evolution, Textbooks, Fake Science
Continuing the discussion of the evolution sticker story is this insightful essay from Maud Newton: Blog which looks at the possible consequences of fake science ending up in textbooks. The piece has lots of good reading in it, but I’ll just quote a little from the wrap-up. It’s bad enough that adults are being seduced by, or at least remain… Read more →
When does the new Enlightenment start?
More on the evolution issues we’ve been following. (I.e. America sinks into the Dark Arges.) Boston.com has an article outlining all the various evolution battles going on right now. More frightening than the idea that there are still people who think science is a matter of opinion, or is irrelevant in the face of faith, is the sheer number of… Read more →
ABC News: School Talent Show Draws Secret Service
What’s more scary about this story: that the Secret Service came to bust kids for singing a Dylan song, or that some other kids at that school actually called the song in as a threat? Christ, imagine they had been covering Costello’s “Tramp The Dirt Down”. ABC News: School Talent Show Draws Secret Service Read more →
Still at hotel
My neighbourhood, and a good 10km radius around it still has no power. I feel a really empassioned rant about the stupidity of running essential services as private industry coming on. Outrage builds Read more →
Bible stickers
Following up our earlier post on the evolution textbook sticker battle. I read with much amusement this post on BoingBoing about the controversy. And since it amused me so, I made up a Word document containing labels with Gary’s text, preformatted for Avery 8161 labels. For those of you without Word, I used the FastPDF service to convert the Word… Read more →
Trapped In A Hotel
I know part of the reason I moved to Nova Scotia was to enjoy the beauty of nature. I know this includes, and consciously included, some majestically crushing weather. However, this is the third time in 13 months that a major weather surprise has taken out the power at my house. Last time it was 7 days before they got… Read more →
I could not make this up.
Higly trained assassin? Peanut butter smuggler? Bizarro version of Burke? Look, I can’t really explain this story. Let me just quote three paragraphs for you, and then you decide whether or not you need to follow the link. Interpol recruited Bannon at age 19 while he was serving time in a Korean prison for smuggling peanut butter and Jack Daniels.… Read more →
Are we still fighting about this?
Evolution textbooks row goes to court OK, seriously, this debate was a joke to civilized people in the 1920s. What the hell is it in the year 2004? And for a little extra scare think about this paragraph in light of the election results: In 1987, the supreme court ruled that creationism was a religious belief that could not be… Read more →
DOOM
I have spent the entire day in a cycle of rage and despair. That is all. Read more →
If I were an American high school student I would be in Gitmo by now
Look, I could spend a long time making a list of all the reasons why Bush has to go, but here’s today’s most spooky one: Students threatened with explusion for supporting Kerry. Read more →
