You know, there are legitimate concerns underlying this, but in the end it looks awfully totalitarian.
Dawkins and the other signatories should limit themselves to open debate and forget about government coercion.

…but I’m still on vacation. There will probably be no posting this week.

Jay linked to a strange letter in the Missoula Independent. Christmas is a fun subject, so let’s go. Here’s the letter in its entirety:
Well, here we are yet again, facing the approach of another Christmas holiday. A holiday full of love, happiness, joy, celebration…and rank liberal hypocrisy. Just to give some of you an historical […]

It’s the Carl Sagan memorial blog-a-thon!
I, being the age that I am, largely missed out on Sagan. Aside from seeing him on TV a couple times and having read The Demon-Haunted World, I haven’t encountered much of his work. What I have seen is enough to tell me that he was an amazing person with […]

I compiled my own kernel and it works. I can now see two CPUs in System Monitor. Sweet.
I’m sorry, I’m sure you’re all absolutely enamored of my Ubuntu adventures, but I’m enjoying this.

I have a post on the issue over at Montana Netroots. Go read it if you don’t know what I’m talking about.

I blame Shane. I decided running 64 bit version of Ubuntu was a pain in the ass, so I blew away everything and started over. My first attempt to start over didn’t go so well: Edgy Eft didn’t recognize my mouse (an off and on problem in my Ubuntu experiences) and my network connection. So […]

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The Decemberists: The Crane Wife
It’s kinda funny. The first time I heard The Decemberists, I thought they were awful (and I wasn’t exposed to a bad song, either: 16 Military Wives). Then, slowly, Picaresque became one of my favorite albums of last year. That didn’t happen with The Crane Wife - I loved it […]

Thought I needed a change. This one seems more “open,” so to speak. It also has very unoriginal graphics and isn’t really modified much from K2 (or 3K2, to be precise - I was originally going to go three column). I like it, though. Let me know if you see any problems, think it’s bad, […]

I kind of like browsing around Christianity Today. There are occasionally strange or interesting articles that stand out in the fundamentalist dreck that floats around the web. For example, this is a rather honest answer to a question about proving Mary gave birth as a virgin. There’s no hand waving to try and provide some […]