December 8, 2004 – 12:00 am
The adaptation of The Golden Compass will have references to the nasty Calvinist/Catholic religion removed so as not to offend the religious. [ via NNN ]
The money quote: You have to recognize that it is a challenge in the climate of Bush’s America.
It’s worse: Tom Stoppard’s script has been dumped.
I’d venture that Pullman can’t do [...]
December 8, 2004 – 12:00 am
[ via The Sideshow ] I’d love to cut down on the politics, but this is in my backyard. You may have read a sob story claiming that the Cupertino School District banned the Declaration of Independence. It didn’t. What it did do was order a teacher to stop using a pile of biased and [...]
August 3, 2004 – 12:00 am
P Z Myers on a roll:
And if Hello Kitty is the apotheosis of perfect organic design, then the oral cavity is an abomination and we commit heresy every time we speak.
Irving Kristol would have you think there are some things, mainly evolutionary biology, that mankind was not ment to know. We’re talking Instrumentalism: the Vampire Slayer.
I relocated, via a comment on Panda’s Thumb, a 1997 article from Reason, a Libertarian magazine, on the Conservative movement’s endorsement of various creationist doctrines such as ID. The writer [...]
At last, a week late, my notes.
Bruce Sterling does not worry about a Vingean Singularity that renders humankind a powerless annoyance to transcendent artificial intelligences. Instead he worries about plain old human-driven technological change and nasty WMDs.
Cynthia and I drove up to the City to hear Bruce Sterling’s lecture for the Long Now Foundation at [...]
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Woot, I met the creator of God Hates Figs tonight.
The Supreme Court of the United States has proven that the law is a barren garden where nothing grows — except for fig trees. It is Satan’s orchard. Justices Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg are the tree surgeons in the abominable nursery of evil.
April 25, 2004 – 12:00 am
I’ve been thinking about how myself and others on the Left treat our fellows who believe in God since the issue came to the fore last week (see Patrick Nielsen Hayden here and here, The Right Christians, and The Blogger formerly known as Calpundit.)
I’m agnostic. From what I understand from biology, physics and math, I [...]
April 15, 2004 – 12:00 am
Joe Jenett gently upbraids me for not citing the source of the campaign to change the ranking of search results for the term ‘Jew’ in Google’s index.
I learned about it through a friend’s Live Journal, which I didn’t cite because that person prefers not to advertise her journal.
So I apologize for the omission.
The campaign to [...]
April 13, 2004 – 12:00 am
The best, non-racist, balanced definition of a Jew, or a Jewish person, can be found at the Wikipedia and nowhere else. Please spread this comment and help stamp out hate speech on the Net. The reason for this campaign is to counter attack a certain anti-semitic website which has made its way to the top [...]
March 24, 2004 – 12:00 am
[ via John Redford ] Greg Beaty’s “geek love prose poem” on aliens and culture (high and pop):
Aliens enter our lives to save us, because somebody must, and Heinlein is dead.
March 23, 2004 – 12:00 am
Zombies chase Christ out of Box Office
Zombies v. Puny Humans
Zombies v. Humans who fight back
Zombies v. Humans, but you have an endless supply of tactical nukes
Online Retailing for Zombies
Zombies need friendship too.
Note: 2 - 4 require Java.
March 13, 2004 – 12:00 am
[ Thanks David B., now we're all going to Hell ] The New Yorker publishes a Passion Mary Sue.
Everyone says that he’s just totally good and devoted to all humanity and that he was sent to save us and that’s why he doesn’t have time for a girlfriend, although I swear I saw Mary Magdalene [...]
February 26, 2004 – 12:00 am
Well Gregg Easterbrook didn’t like The Passion of The Christ either. Heck, he even points out that the Gospels don’t support the torture fest Mel Gibson put his Jesus through.
However, the movie’s opened big; $26 million in the first day. So how much of the audience are people curious about the controversy, and how many [...]
February 25, 2004 – 12:00 am
My screenwriting teacher saw The Passion of the Christ today. He said there’s a strong religious anti-Semitic theme, as the Pharisees are the black hats. But he was impressed with Gibson’s filmmaking skills.
He liked the portrayal of Pilate. Gibson emphasizes the Hobson’s Choice he had of either executing Jesus and playing into the hands of [...]
February 9, 2004 – 12:00 am
[ Found in several locations. ]
Maybe it’s time that American Airlines to put their pilots on short leads. First they’re giving the bird to Brazilian immigration, now another American pilot asked the Christians on his flight to turn to their non-Christian fellows and talk to them about the G_D thing.
The passengers thought this was an [...]
