Animal rights group protest:
CALGARY (CP) - A woman dressed in a tiger suit squeezed into a cage littered with dirt and rotting food Thursday to protest the licence renewal for a private Alberta zoo criticized for how it treats its animals.
Christian right protest.
Pastor David Bayly spent two weeks in Pinellas Park, Florida outside the gates […]

Apparently Montana State University-Great Falls offers a course called “Exploring Complementary and Alternative Medicine” as an elective in their Health Sciences department. There’s one assignment (on “energy medicine”) from the class in the printer here. It’s close to being objectional, but not too bad. It mentions “quantum physics and subatomic particles” for no real reason, […]

In my ongoing attempts to elevate the level of discourse in this country, I present this.
Hey, he is holding it right over some lady with a sign equating O.J. Simpson and Scott Peterson with Michael Schiavo.
While I’m in the mood for cheap shots, John Cole has one.

Hilary Swank Fined for Fruit Import
So important it’s one of Yahoo’s top stories at the moment.
Sheesh.

On Sunday the Chronicle had a front page article dealing with global warming’s effects on whitebark pines. In short, their habitat is warming, allowing mountain pine beetles to survive more easily and attack the pines. This is having an impact on a major source of food for grizzly bears and could lead to more confrontations […]

Hey, you know how all those wimpy leftist economies are trounced by the powerhouse right wing economies?
Yeah, not so much.
Every year since 1995, the Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal put out an Index of Economic Freedom, ranking countries on their fealty to the precepts of free markets and free trade….
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A more interesting test […]

Continuing my streak of posts dealing with religion, I learned something new about Scientology today. I thought it was pretty much just a silly self actualization-type cult claiming to be based in science. Stupid, but not that interesting. Apparently, I was wrong. Skeptico quotes this summary:
the alien galactic ruler Xenu who was in charge of […]

I caught this flipping channels yesterday. Joe Lieberman opines on faith in America on Meet The Press:
The fact is that in the first American document, the Declaration of Independence, the founders of our country said that they were forming the new government to secure the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness that […]

Randy has a Monty Python quiz, which he aced. I, on the other hand, only got 6 out of 10. George Harrison was in Life of Brian? I’m not old enough to catch that one.

Today is Easter and I spent this afternoon in the Museum of the Rockies. Much better than going to one of those silly church things.
Anyway, I just wanted to say that their new cosmology is pretty cool. Much more colorful than the book I’m reading. There was a letter in the Chronicle the other day […]