Here is a sweet little action. It has two faults: One, it is only visible as an action to people who frequent bookstores and actually look at books – that is, it only touches other readers. Or other Flickr viewers. The other problem is that I can’t help but feel sorry for the people who work at the bookstore. Still, this is pretty fun. Flickr: Ministry of Reshelving How to Serve the Ministry of Reshelving 1. Select a local bookstore…
The Flying Spaghetti Monster made it into the Wikipedia, nice! The Flying Spaghetti Monster is the deity of a religion, known as Flying Spaghetti Monsterism, started on the Internet by Bobby Henderson as a parody of the decision by the Kansas State Board of Education to allow intelligent design to be taught in science classes alongside evolution. Henderson submitted an open letter to the Kansas Board of Education demanding that the Flying Spaghetti Monster be given equal time in classrooms…
Intolerant? Yup – of intolerance…. I’m with Mark Morford in this refreshing rant: You, hate-mailers from the sanctimonious Right and even some of you morally paralyzed middle-grounders from the Left, are correct. I am, in fact, deeply intolerant. It is true. I can hide my deep biases and predispositions no longer. I cannot, for example, tolerate the dark and violent road down which this nation seems intent on careening like an Escalade on meth. I cannot tolerate brutal never-ending unnecessary…
No matter what is on the agenda, no matter what crisis is imminent, Bush gets his vacation time. That’s why the Democrats in Congress should propose “the George W. Bush Paid Vacation Act”. This piece of legislation will guarantee every American with a full time job to five weeks of paid vacation… no questions asked. In the name of our President, the average American citizen will join the league of other civilized vacationing peoples like the Australians, the Germans and…
Here is another parody of JW reasoning written by Subir Kaunds and published here with his permission. Thank you so much! QUESTIONS FROM READERS Is it scriptural to trim nose hair? A Christian is governed by conscience. And some Christians may feel, in the absence of any specific prohibition in the Bible, that trimming nose hair does not go against their conscience. But is that the correct view? Since we hold the scripture as our unfailing guide, we want to…
Bright Eyes sang this on the Tonight Show. When The President Talks To God When the president talks to God Are the conversations brief or long? Does he ask to rape our women’s rights And send poor farm kids off to die? Does God suggest an oil hike When the president talks to God? When the president talks to God Are the consonants all hard or soft? Is he resolute all down the line? Is every issue black or white?…