Okay, I admit it * Mar 8, 2005 08:45 AM
Okay, so I've long been a Star Trek fan. And a reader of Wil Wheaton's weblog. On this entry, he points out the TV Guide poll for Most Annoying Star Trek character.
>> Continue reading about "Okay, I admit it"Black History Month looks less hopeful along 47th Street * Feb 16, 2005 05:00 AM
I used to live on 47th Street -- near the lake, not quite near MLK Drive, but I sure drove through that area a few times. It sounds like it has gotten both better and worse since I lived there: from the Chicago Sun-Times
Alternative Methods of Fighting Terrorism * Feb 12, 2005 08:45 AM
An interesting story, showing what happens when respect is the bottom-line in fighting terror: Koranic duels ease terror | csmonitor.com:
"SANAA, YEMEN -- When Judge Hamoud al-Hitar announced that he and four other Islamic scholars would challenge Yemen's Al Qaeda prisoners to a theological contest, Western antiterrorism experts warned that this high-stakes gamble would end in disaster."
Musings * Jan 17, 2005 10:54 AM
I've been thinking about this dangerous trend among the rightwingnuts to define legal "personhood" as beginning at conception.
If the religious rightwingnuts are successful at getting personhood defined legally as extending back to conception, will that mean that the definition of the "age" of a person also moves back nine months for legal purposes? Will voting, the age of majority, definition of a juvenile shift back nine months or require amending all laws? Will retirement benefits be paid 9 months earlier?
Will a new certificate have to be issued, in addition to a birth certificate, to determine the age at which the "person" became a person? And how will the actual date of conception be proven for legal purposes? Cameras in bedrooms? Notarized diary entries? Required witnesses?
It boggles the mind.
Tsunami/Earthquake: Religious Questions * Jan 1, 2005 01:49 PM
Guardian Unlimited | Guardian daily comment | How can religious people explain something like this?: about the religious questions the tsunami/earthquake of 2004 raised for people.
Grandson * Sep 25, 2003 03:48 PM
Heather sent along this picture of Bill's grandson -- sure looks like he's having lots of fun!
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