A pungent mix of programming, philosophy, pedanticism, procrastination, perplexity, peripheral political polemic, and platters of preposterousness.
Skepticality has returned!! Finally! They’ve also done a deal with Skeptic Magazine. Go and have a listen, and digg it.
Someone found my site in the last few hours by searching for “if you shoot a cop”. Buddy - if you’ve shot a cop, what you need to do is run away, as quickly as possible. Preferably, cross the border in to a country which your country hasn’t got any kind of international agreements with. Find yourself a nice shack out in the countryside, miles from anywhere, arm yourself up and prepare for a “Ruby Ridge” type experience.
Austin Cline has a review of Keith Ward’s The Case for Religion.
The Catholic Education Service think that they should be able to force over-16s to pray. Superstitious old ghouls.
Some more sanity statistics. Britain’s pretty high up. America, alas, is not.
Oh my. Ruth Kelly’s attacker has been sentenced to a community punishment order and an ASBO for five years. He sounds cuckoo, but anyone who throws eggs at politicians has to be a good thing.
Want another stunning story? Øystein Andersen has a stunning article on Dagbladet.no (in Norwegian) about a group of Christian parents in Norway who believe - on the basis of the Old Testament - that computers are forbidden. dukesnorre has posted an English translation over on LiveJournal.
