Today’s the day to celebrate Debby, botanizer extraordinaire and frequent Global Spin contributor. And what better way to celebrate than with a “nice bottle of wine”:http://www.robertsinskey.com/? ;)
Happy Birthday!
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Eight Days in Dreamland
Finally posting a bit about my time at Space Camp. Summary: it was as much fun as any geek could pack into eight days. And there were rockets.
Follow along with the photos as you read, and it could almost be a picture book. Almost.
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for some values of ‘freedom’
A Boston Globe article raises a good point about the “current situation in Falluja”:http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2004/12/05/returning_fallujans_will_face_clampdown. The city has been “secured” by the simple method of removing all its residents and shooting anyone who remained. The problem with that winning strategy? Letting anyone back in.
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light, and air, and fish, and jam
I know I have some wild ideas of my own, beliefs that defy the available evidence, but at least I don’t “build a big shrine to my irrational beliefs”:http://www.answersingenesis.org/museum/ and call it a museum. “Look! If I take this page from Genesis and “fold it like this”:http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v22/i1/creation.asp and make the words match up like so, it’s science! Or a pteradactyl. Whatever.”
if we don’t laugh we’ll cry
I like my news on the funny side. Humor makes the pill a bit easier to swallow. In that vein, Eric pointed out The Borowitz Report. It’s funny, it’s timely, and it’s served in small daily doses.