Posted in Uncategorized on February 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here is a 12 year old girl who can speak her mind quite well. Her 7th grade class was her audience.
What if I told you that right now, someone was choosing if you were gonna live or die? What if I told you that this choice wasn’t based on what you [...]
Posted in News, Rants and Raves on February 23, 2009 | 5 Comments »
On Friday, the Erie Times News ran a front page story ( “Loved and Left Behind“) about the failed marriage between Dr. Blaine Bell, a local dentist, and Martha Ramirez Bell, a Columbian woman who married him and moved to Erie. The marriage, which was his 4th marriage and her second, ended after 7 weeks, [...]
Posted in News, Science on February 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Today is the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin, so it’s a good day to blog about him.
The idea that natural (or artificial) selection can introduce changes in a species is not controversial. After all, even hard-core six-day creationists like me believe that both Vikings and Bushmen are descended from Adam and Eve, and we all [...]
Posted in Fun Stuff, Uncategorized, tagged strange drinks on February 12, 2009 | 3 Comments »
If the newspaper headlines are driving you to drink, here is some news you can use:
1. You may have heard it said that “sacred cows make the best hamburger,” but some Indians got the idea that sacred cow urine can be made into cola.
INDIA MAKES COLA FROM COW URINE
To millions of devout Hindus, it’s the [...]
Posted in Politics, tagged Bill clinton, george w. bush, pardons, Politics on February 4, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Sometimes, it is significant that a dog does not bark. In the case of President George W. Bush, there is something noteworthy that he did not do much of in his last few days in office.
Often, politicians use their last days to pardon a large number of people. President Clinton, for example, pardoned 140 people [...]
Posted in Fun Stuff, Kids on February 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Maria does not care about football even a little. I mean, she could grow up to marry a Browns fan and it wouldn’t matter to her, as long as she didn’t have to fetch his beer, or sit on the sofa and watch the game with him. (Or worse yet, go watch the game from [...]
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