Random Asides
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Monday Morning Freethinker Gossip
Breaking news! Notable Humanist Salman Rushdie is back on the market after agreeing to divorce his ridiculously gorgeous Top Chef-hosting former-modeling wife Padma Lakshmi. (Side note: not to be confused with NPR correspondent Lakshmi Singh or something.) The split has been rumored for quite some time now, so it’s not a total shocker. (I read that she wasn’t even at…
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Happiness is…
…a Saturday spent biking along the coast and drinking wine on the beach. …a Sunday spent winning a football game. …noticing on the ride home that there’s a tarot card/psychic shop going out of business.
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Bigfoot is not pleased.
This is the Bigfoot I’d like to see. Not the shy, gentle creature peeking out from behind trees and loping away when spotted — no, I want to see the sadistic bastard ripping out a guy’s small intestine and beating a group of kids with it. You have to watch this clip from Night of the Demon, 1980.
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I’m currently taking MBA courses, which are ostensibly not a waste of my time. However, this past week I attended the first of five sessions on the subject of business communication and I think I left a little dumber than when I arrived. Communication is usually an interesting subject for me because it’s one of the few business courses that…
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Tomatoes, bees, and sex toys.
I’ve been having an “ask an entomologist” session over at the JREF forums, and a question came up about tomatoes and pollination. Mercutio was concerned that with the disappearing honey bees, his tomatoes might not set fruit. Surprise! Honeybees don’t do much tomato pollination. Tomatoes are descended from ancestors in South America. Originally, they were pollinated by solitary bees. Today’s…
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Aw, atheists finding love.
Found while perusing Craigslist.org: cute atheist girl on the amtrak from New York – m4w – 26 Date: 2007-05-23, 12:09AM EDT Hi. You were with your sister and were having a conversation about religion. I told you to go pick up Christopher Hitchens new book “God is not Great”. I thought you were really cute and wished I could have…
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Devolution
When creationists shake their little fists, jump up and down, and yell, “My grandpa weren’t no monkey!” I like to imagine what they must think we mean when we explain that humans and apes descended from a common ancestor. I’m pretty sure they’re thinking of some kind of monkey/human hybrid walking around in bibbed overalls. A cool web site that…
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Husbands say the funniest things…
Last night I was talking to my husband about Prof Robert Winston, the scientist and all-round nice TV guy. I was sure that he was a Lord, but wanted confirmation from Phil. For those who don’t know, a Lord is a member of the British House of Lords, part of Parliament but with fewer powers than regular politicians. Me: “I…
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