our crazy world
"The rapture" is made up. But you can still play a board game about it! Left Behind Games Store: "Imagine having friends and loved ones all around you suddenly disappear in the blink of an eye. Paralyzed with fear in a state of mass confusion, you struggle desparately [sic] to make sense of what's just happened. Then you realize...you've been Left Behind! This exciting board game has two parts..."Rick Santorum compares putting a Santorum bumper sticker on your car to serving your country in Iraq or Afghanistan: video
beliefnet: Alister McGrath on Atheism, Christianity, Religion and Science: "Spiritually, God is the oxygen of my existence; I would find it very difficult to thrive without a belief in God."
That reminds me of a radio segment I heard over the weekend about a family who came right out and said that the senseless death of their favorite son in Iraq would have been unbearable without their faith in god. If you come right out and say that you're tricking yourself and passing your denial off as normal, which I find strange. Another reason mankind won't shrug off the mantle of ancient superstition any time soon is that the alternative, reality, doesn't hold the believer in the creamy center. Reality feels a little chilly because it doesn't care. And just maybe senseless deaths in the desert are supposed to leave people feeling a little shaken and pissed off and like something tragic and irreversible has happened.
Neuroscience Reveals A Shocker: Partisan Thought Is Unconscious - New York Times
Sweet! Free Online Graph Paper / Grid Paper PDFs
Leaving the link in its original, entertaining state, here's a soldier of fortune (nerdy white suburban guy with a desire to live an adventurous mercenary life magazine) type page showing how to be such a total badass you can inflict huge damage on your opponent, who is ostensibly a sheaf of papers, using only a paperclip. Fight Fast - Self Defense - Personal Protection - Martial Arts - Street Fighting - Spec Ops - Delta Force - SEAL Team - SWAT Cops
As Elections Near, Officials Challenge Balloting Security: "Sancho and seven other people held a referendum. The question on the ballot:
"Can the votes of this Diebold system be hacked using the memory card?"
Two people marked yes on their ballots, and six no. The optical scan machine read the ballots, and the data were transmitted to a final tabulator. The result? Seven yes, one no."
fyi: The fifty most loathsome people thing from yesterday was funny, if you want to print it. It's about twenty pages in ten point TNR, font of the gods.
Red scorpion, a film by Jack Abramoff.
Here's the .mov.
: Alberto Gonzales spoke before law students at Georgetown today, justifying illegal, unauthorized surveilance of US citizens, but during the course of his speech the students in class did something pretty ballsy and brave. They got up from their seats and turned their backs to him.:insomnia: Future American lawyers to be proud of.
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