Global Spin

Cute little posters for y’all to print out and display for “vote no on the recall” day!

Posted by Deb in Politics on September 30th, 2003 | Comments Off

That’s the argument made by the Michigan Freethought group. As evidence, one member pointed out this article about recent work restoring a palimpsest to its original form. Seems the scrolls held copies of a bunch of Archimedes’ treatises and calculations originally, but some monks saw fit to rub and scrape those out and replace them [...]

Posted by Deana in Science on September 30th, 2003 | Comments Off

Disturbing news from a New Scientist article:
Babies given antibiotics during the first six months of their lives are far more likely to develop asthma, according to a US study. Why is not clear, but the team claims antibiotics might be partly responsible for the steady rise in asthma cases in western countries.

Posted by Chris in Science on September 30th, 2003 | 3 Comments »

Back on August 27, I quoted Al Franken, who said, “Joe Wilson, the former Gabon ambassador, was sent to Niger by the CIA and came back and said the uranium claims weren’t true. And when the controversy started broiling again about the 16 words in the State of the Union address and Wilson wrote the [...]

Posted by Deana in Uncategorized on September 30th, 2003 | 1 Comment »

Not making this up, kids. I don’t quite know what to make of it, though. I just know the marriages won’t be considered legal in the U.S., ha ha. :-)

Posted by Deana in Religion on September 29th, 2003 | Comments Off

This has nothing to do with anything, but I saw a few optical illusions today and had to share them.
Rolling circles
Whirling seeds
Spinning snakes
Are they moving? Look closer…

Posted by Chris in Science on September 25th, 2003 | 3 Comments »

Well, this is good news, I guess. Amina Lawal, a Nigerian woman who was sentenced to be stoned to death for adultery (mostly given the fact that she gave birth to a child two years after she and her husband divorced), has been spared.
What’s weird, though, is that she’s not being spared because [...]

Posted by Deana in Religion on September 25th, 2003 | Comments Off

Well, the Bush family wealth seems to have a bloody history according to this article.
Wonder if my grandmother was “managed” by Prescott Bush?

Posted by Deb in Politics on September 24th, 2003 | Comments Off

I’m liking this. Here’s information on the women being trained in Afghanistan’s new police academy. Says one, “Some women don’t think this is the right thing to do, so we want them to understand that they can do it.” Go, sisters!

Posted by Deana in Uncategorized on September 22nd, 2003 | 2 Comments »

Hi, this is Deana, your Michigan correspondant, writing with a report from the field. Despite all the supporting evidence, it turns out, according to this Detroit News editorial, that the theory of evolution is “an antiquated, unproven teaching theory”. Oh, I see. It also says that evolution “fails (the) test” of being a “genuine [...]

Posted by Deana in Religion on September 21st, 2003 | 1 Comment »