Links With Your Coffee - Sunday
On the Limits of Self-Improvement, Part I:Insofar as we are able to be objective, here follows a brief physical review of the subject, Christopher Eric Hitchens, at the time of this writing enjoying his 59th summer. Obstacles to the continuance of such enjoyment may be listed in no especial order as follows. . .
- The Left Coaster: Edwards Full Transcript: short & sweet, so here's the whole thing
- Bill's Message To Osama Bin Laden - To Usama Bin Laden, hell awaits you unless... from Bill Keller, liverprayer.com A Christian responds to a Osamma's call to convert to Islam
- BBC NEWS | Americas | US reports on religious freedom
Religious freedom has deteriorated in Iraq and Egypt, while China has cracked down on foreign missionaries ahead of the Olympics, the US government said.
- Welcome to My Book Collection - Paper Cuts - Books - New York Times Blog
It’s an interview with the rumbling Goth rocker Glenn Danzig, clearly from early in his career (he’s now in his 50s), in which he takes readers on a guided tour of his spooky book collection.
This is like watching what might have happened had David Cassidy become the house librarian on “The Munsters.” - Airline sacrifices goats to appease sky god - Travel News - MSNBC.com
Officials at Nepal's state-run airline have sacrificed two goats to appease Akash Bhairab, the Hindu sky god, following technical problems with one of its Boeing 757 aircraft, the carrier said Tuesday.
(tip to Tony and Steve) - Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Pentagon: Rudy Ad's Use Of Petraeus Image Done "Without His Consent"
Rudy's new political ad attacking Hillary Clinton features multiple pictures of General Petraeus in uniform -- but now the Pentagon says that the General "has not condoned" the use of his image in Rudy's ad or any other political ads, adding that it was done "without his consent."
- FINALLY, SOME ALAN GREENSPAN ‘DOUBLES-PIQUE’ WE CAN REALLY UNDERSTAND
Comments
I found the Bill Keller video hilarious. One wonders whether fundamentalists of all stripes have simply given up and gone in for self-parody. Mohammed was a "pedophile" (wtf?) who was "poisoned by his own wife" (which one?), the Koran is "a poor, cheap imitation of the inspired word of God in the Bible," the "false god Allah." This last is particularly hilarious, as 'Allah' is just the Arabic word for 'God', not some fancy new name.
Oh how blind must one be not to see that one garbled, superstition-laden, barely coherent collection of ancient writings is not obviously more divinely inspired than another!
Looks like Hitchens is not trying too hard for sex appeal. :-D
Osama and Bill Keller may as well be sacrificing goats and mumbling magic spells at each other to make points with the gods.
What they say makes as much sense as killing a goat because something is wrong with your airplane.
If the Americans would only sacrifice goats to appease the terror gods we wouldn't have such long line ups at airports.
I'd pay to see a video of Hitchens getting the wax job for the next report. I picture it to be something like this.
Ugh! That was cruel Erick, what a way to start the day. :)
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