Which Of My Two Alma Maters Hosts A Creationist Website Sponsored By A Professor In The Computer Science Department?

Wrong. How embarrassing.

Board Game Saturday

I had a good time Saturday playing two board games, GMTs Carthage (above) and Eagle Games Conquest of the Empire. Carthage has some totaly cool rules on attrition and the Roman political system! Conquest is like Axis & Allies meets the board game that was in "I, Claudius," I was totally outmatched but mannaged to win because I had seven quinqueremes in the Agean.

All I can ask for.

It doesn't matter how many games we win at Alabama this year. We've already won in the most important way. We have a coach who can communicate what this is about to the players and they have internalized it.
Hardwork: “I think we have more confidence,” (the QB) Wilson said. “I think the way we worked in the offseason is just carrying over to the first few games. We didn’t play as well as we’d like to, but we played pretty well.”
Relentless effort: “When my feet first hit the floor this morning, I wanted to hit him (Vandy's QB),” senior end Wallace Gilberry said. “I wanted to hit him and continue to hit him, and that’s what I tried to do.”
High Expectations: “We aren’t satisfied, one bit,” senior receiver DJ Hall said. “We’re already looking to play Arkansas.”
Just makes me feel better - (article).

Chuck Norris Is Gonna Learn Us Some History!

The internets' most laughable heap of trash, WorldNetDaily, is all in a fluster because of us pesky, evil atheists. Like a pernicious hate-souffle, we're rising. Some people would actually even vote for us! Mary, Joseph, and Jesus! How can you even sleep at night knowing that ignorance-fighting rationalists may be lurking about outside, convincing your neighbors that thinking is ok?!

I'm sure TV Texas Ranger's well-reasoned, objective, and thoroughly researched article would turn me into a Jesus-loving, God-fearing, hetero wedlock sex-lusting, patriotic American man-stud were I to temporarily abate my quaffing of infant blood and read it.

Ed Brayton refutes their ridiculous "the Pilgrims founded America" nonsense here. He forgets to add that the Pilgrims didn't even found America's first English colony. Stupid Yankee revisionists.

I'm still trying to find out where the Bill of Rights and the terms "democratic" and "republic" are in the bible. I must have the wrong translation; I'm sure it's in Romans somewhere. And my copy of the Federalist Papers left out the bits where Hamilton, Madison, and Jay explained that the Constitution should be ratified because it is scripturally based and biblically sound. God-hating commie fudge-packing atheists musta took out all the Jesus parts.

Not bad - you know I can't resist a list.

The 100 Best TV Shows of All TIME

Squid, Squid, Burning Bright

All hail a new generation of our tasty squid overlords!

I Didn't Just Like It Because Ethan Embry Is Cute

I review Vacancy at my other blog.

Fleur De Ennui

In the first game of NFL's regular season, was it too much to ask that my team at least score an offensive touchdown? Apparently so.

Fuck voodoo! It's enough to make me try to revert to hating Payton again.

Another fucking commercial with him in it might just send me over that edge.

Hitchens

in Vanity Fair.

Summer's End

Had a great Labor Day weekend. Called a ballgame Thursday. More this week. Clyde Squid visited us and we had a great time. Priceville Bookstore, Booklegger, Beauregard's, Cheeburger Cheeburger at the Village (I ate the pounder & signed the picture "Be Seeing You"), Alabama dismantled poor WCU, Auburn was bad & UT & ND were beaten. Plenty of J-Horror, Tony Bourdain, and Alton Brown as well as some Sam Adams & Guinness. A fine time, I must say.

And America's Collective Ignorance And Homophobia Statistically Decreases...

D. James Kennedy is dead. Good riddance to that gay-hating, superstitious, revisionist theocrat.

Looks like 8 months of his sheep's prayers for his recovery worked like a charm. EXACTLY like a charm.

Now we just have to see who takes control of his "flock" and his Center for Reclaiming America for Christ clan. Having no heir apparent to his grotesque church and anti-rationalist organizations, we can all just hope that prayer continues to work for them as well as it has previously.

Where superstition reigns....

Airline sacrifices goats to appease sky god

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - 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.

Nepal Airlines, which has two Boeing aircraft, has had to suspend some services in recent weeks due the problem.

The goats were sacrificed in front of the troublesome aircraft Sunday at Nepal's only international airport in Kathmandu in accordance with Hindu traditions, an official said.

"The snag in the plane has now been fixed and the aircraft has resumed its flights," said Raju K.C., a senior airline official, without explaining what the problem had been.

Local media last week blamed the company's woes on an electrical fault. The carrier runs international flights to five cities in Asia.

It is common in Nepal to sacrifice animals like goats and buffaloes to appease different Hindu deities.

I laughed uncontrollably

A little football humor:

Battlestar: Razor

They knew they had to kill Admiral "Roe" because she would just take over. But she was so bad-ass that they had to bring her back in a interim story and release it on DVD. You can vote on the DVD cover, but most importantly - see outstanding clips.
There's a trailer as well.

The Foo Fiighters Are Dead To Us

While I loathe linking to Mother Jones, here is a great reason never to buy any Foo Fighters music: they are HIV deniers.

Instead, buy Brian Grillo's CDs (old-school CD here). Grillo was recently featured in Newsweek (click on "The Faces of HIV" on the right and go to picture 3).

No one has ever "seen" any microbe or virus kill or sicken anyone. Then again, no one has ever "seen" the earth go around the sun. This despicable brand of anti-science ranks with creationism.