On December 19th, 1843, Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol went on sale. Bah humbug!
- George Takei Helps You Come Out to Your Family During the Holidays – Andy Richter too, for a small fee.
- Intelligent design think tank’s “institute” is a Shutterstock image – From CriticalDragon1177.
- A Hunger for Tales of Life in the American Cul-de-Sac – A book that describes American life to Russians. Interesting!
- Times Square: anti-Islamic pastor Terry Jones muted by crowd of people singing “All You Need is Love” – From Amy.
- Man Finally Put In Charge Of Struggling Feminist Movement – Gotta love the Onion! From Mark H.
- The Goodies and Arthur C. Clarke – You just have to watch it. From CriticalDragon1177.
- 26 Moments That Restored Our Faith In Humanity This Year
Yesterday’s news but ugh, I’m lost for words:
Karachi polio killings: Vaccination workers shot
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20767138)
Mary,
I’m really starting to like George Take.
Sorry, I meant, George Takei
Thanks for the 26 moments. I really needed that.
Mary,
By the way, I didn’t notice that thing about terry Jones until just now. I’m really glad they didn’t listen to his bigoted stupidity.
The scary thing about the health workers is that the CIA had done some fake work in the area that likely added to the anger of the Taliban
http://m.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/12/the-cia-and-the-polio-murders.html
The story from the Onion about the final victory of the women’s rights movement (by finally putting a man in charge of it) is actually 5 years old, which explains why feminism is now an historical irrelevancy.
[For the sarcasm-challenged, that was an example.]
[[Or was it actually a new story with a fake dateline, showing that I am also sarcasm-challenged?]]
That’s a great series of Quickies, Mary. Some laughs, some interest and some very uplifting stories.
Wish I had been in Times Square for that – awesome stuff!
Thanks, I do try not to make it too sad in the mornings! :)
So have they actually come up with a theory of Intelligent Design, or are they just criticizing evolution?
People are trying to get intelligent design into textbooks, but nobody seems to have written it yet. I am unemployed. Clearly there’s no kind of requirements to be a scientist in the field. I could do that.
I’m going to come up with a bunch of testable hypotheses for this fledgling science. Hey, where do you buy those lab coats?