The iPad has suddenly made the Kindle appear long in the tooth, but I had no idea just how antiquated the Kindle actually was. Yesterday, I was searching for books by George Lakoff, a UC Berkeley linguist with some intriguing yet controversial ideas on the differences between how liberals and conservatives think. This [...]
Last Saturday, I went to the San Francisco Green Festival. This is my story.
The experience actually began as I was walking from BART to the Concourse Exhibition Center. I saw this spray-painted onto an overpass support:
Why do people do that? Is their message so important that they have to deface public property? [...]
I came across the website of some philosopher named James Spiegel, who has written a book called The Making of an Atheist. The opening paragraph on his web page caught my attention:
Sigmund Freud famously dismissed belief in God as a psychological projection caused by wishful thinking. Today many of the “new atheists”—including Richard Dawkins, [...]
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Long-time Bay of Fundie readers are familiar with crackpot creatard Kevin Wirth, his crackpot creatard buddy Jerry Bergman, and Kevin’s endless shilling of Bergman’s book Slaughter of the Dissidents. As bad as books such as The Secret and Going Rogue are, at least they’re from reputable publishers who nominally go through [...]
(From The Daily Irritant)
[Update: Welcome to everyone coming over from Crooks and Liars! Why is it every time I write about dildos I get more traffic?]
Yesterday, I got a quick mention in Sadly, No! about an old wetsuit/dildo mishap. If you’re one of those readers, welcome! If you then came to [...]
Which of these statements is false?
Charles Lindbergh was the first to fly across the Atlantic.
John Glenn was the first American in space.
Charles Darwin discovered evolution.
They’re all false, of course. No scholar claims that any of them are true, yet there are some folks out there who somehow got their facts confused. I’ll get [...]
I have several superb Winnie the Pooh illustrations on my hard drive. I used one of them last month. This next one I found just a few days ago, so I either have to use it now or throw it away. It’s already a little stale. So here you go. [...]
You probably remember that 1954 Christian activity book that I mentioned a week ago. I only found two good images in it, but I saved the best for last. The above image is also from this book. As you can see, it lends itself beautifully to the addition of word balloons.
In fact, [...]
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