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Oh, PZ, you are a rascal

PZ Myers on the host kerfluffle:
Go ahead, any of you can do it — you don’t need to be a theologian to see that it is just a cracker.

Randy Pausch, RIP

Randy Pausch has died of cancer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo

That flag is broken

Your American flags are broken.  They’re not on fire.
– Jon Stewart, viewing footage of American flags at the Obama address in Berlin.

Word

It’s not entirely the case that John McCain’s presidential candidacy is dead, but it’s in Terry Schiavo territory.
-Spencer Ackerman 

Spencer gets it right

Spencer Ackermann, writing about a new Condi Rice biography has this to say about Bush:
Underestimated. It’s true that Bush has been consistently regarded as being a poor human being for much of his life. But after two unwon wars, a drowned city, a collapsing econo — oh, just go down the list, it feels so […]

Ya got me

I loves me some 236.com. Here’s the headline:
McCain selecting who runs America after he falls, breaks hip
Read the whole thing.

236.com

These guys have done some funny stuff. Love this title:
George W. Bush to gain son, Jenna Bush to lose her virginity
Read the whole thing without hyperventilating.  I double dog dare you.

Heaven

I pointed out the shafts of sunlight over Lake Washington to JMan.  We were heading west in Kirkland, and I saw the sunlight overlaying Seattle on the west side of the lake.
“It looks like an open doorway to heaven.”
–JMan, 8

Blogwatch: Go Fug Yourself

Too funny.
You’d think the worst thing about Sharon Stone’s new look was her “I did this by myself with my nail clippers at four in the morning after six Harvey Wallbangers and a cup of gravy!” haircut, wouldn’t you?
See the pic.

Some things don’t change

I was looking for something on the Internet and found Tom Clancy’s novel, “Patriot Games”, on a Russian site. My guess is someone ran it through an OCR system. Whatever.
The book starts with a quote from William Webster, head of the FBI, in 1985.
Behind all the political rhetoric being hurled at us from […]