You can't silence the truth, but you can talk over it.

On moments of silence

Mon Sep 11, 2006 6:30 PM EDT

I hate moments of silence. I mean, geez. Who invented the damn things? I'll tell you who. A jerk. That's who. The thing with moments of silence, you know, is that everybody's…how you say… silent. Man, if that's not peer pressure, then I don't know what is.

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humor, us-news, satire, communism, september-eleventh, moments-of-silence, personification-of-relative-concepts

On artificial intelligence

Fri Aug 4, 2006 4:09 PM EDT

You know, I've often wished I was a robot. Robots have it made, and not only because of those snazzy nightvision deelies.

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technology, microsoft, beer, tea, humor, why-would-anyone-read-this

On judicial reform

Tue Jul 4, 2006 10:07 PM EDT

So there's this whole controversy over swearing on Bibles in court. One side says that oaths on the Bible violate the Separation of Church and State, or some such liberal propaganda. The other side says it's just symbolic, and it doesn't violate nothin'.

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politics, law, bible, satire, separation-of-church-and-state

On religious persecution

Mon Jul 3, 2006 8:31 PM EDT

[Link]A large Delaware school district promoted Christianity so aggressively that a Jewish family felt it necessary to move to Wilmington, two hours away, because they feared retaliation for filing a lawsuit.

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religion, first-amendment, atheism, christianity, judaism, persecution, separation-of-church-and-state, indoctrination

US Air Force funding study of blogs

Seeded on Sun Jul 2, 2006 2:16 PM EDT (defenselink.mil)

The Air Force Office of Scientific Research recently began funding a new research area that includes a study of blogs. Blog research may provide information analysts and warfighters with invaluable help in fighting the war on terrorism.

air-force, blogs, research, us-news, war-on-terror

Hot, steamy cuttlefish sex

Seeded on Fri Jun 30, 2006 10:23 AM EDT (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

'It's a giant orgy. The waters of the Spencer Gulf are simply reeking with sex at the moment, as millions of Giant Australian cuttlefish arrive for their annual breeding season.'

australia, sex, odd-news, cuttlefish, cephalopods

Funny Words

Fri Jun 23, 2006 10:50 PM EDT

I'm no linguist. I don't pretend to know why I say things, listen to people, or drop cinderblocks in gelatin. But that never seems to stop me.

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humor, words, weirdness, gazebo

Packrats unite

Sun May 28, 2006 10:52 PM EDT

So I'm sorting through my desks and closets and drawers and such, and have discovered that I possess a great deal of strange things. Here is a list of some that stand out:

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collections

Fides

Mon Feb 27, 2006 6:39 PM EST

As an atheist and supporter of science, I have been told time and again by theists that science is a religion.

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religion, science, faith, world-news

Wax - an allegory

Thu Feb 23, 2006 8:03 PM EST

I used to be an amateur candlemaker. I made candles. Candles were my specialty. Some might even claim that candles were my forté. Others, however, would frown upon that claim. But those people are pessimists, and pessimists should only frown upon themselves.

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religion, faith, atheism, fiction, allegory

Trouble's brewing, but it's not quite what we thought

Sat Feb 4, 2006 8:35 PM EST

Let's talk about Israel.

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israel, hamas, politics, religion, world-news, war-on-terror, religious-extremism

Science Friday: Real Climate

Seeded on Fri Jan 20, 2006 5:24 PM EST (brentrasmussen.com)

Blogger Darksyde interviews 3 leading climatologists about global warming, at popular blog Unscrewing The Inscrutable.

global-warming, science, not-news, climatology

Lego Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

Seeded on Tue Jan 17, 2006 7:07 PM EST (reasonablyclever.com)

A loyal follower of His Noodliness, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, build a roughly 3000-piece lego church to the FSM.

odd-news, not-news, pastafarianism, flying-spaghetti-monster, noodly-appendage, legos

Study shows that newly awaken are groggier than sleep-deprived

Seeded on Sat Jan 14, 2006 3:50 PM EST (Yahoo! News)

People who have just woken up are likely to be groggier than those who have not slept for some time. In fact, this study claims that they might as well be drunk.

study, science, sleep, psychology, duplicate

God-seeking Muslims kill each other in stampede

Seeded on Thu Jan 12, 2006 5:40 PM EST (CNN)

So you've got a bunch of devoutly religious people climbing over rocks to find some holy spot, and they have a ritual involving throwing stones at a 'symbolic devil.' It seems like a recipe for disaster, and this disaster has even happened before.

religion, saudi-arabia, islam, world-news