Do you know what happens when you take pills to make you sleepy every night and then you run out of them over the weekend and don't have any left? You go to bed at 10pm, examine the ceiling for a bit, doze, awake at midnight, untangle body from sheets, get up... the good thing is that this will allow me to pull all-nighters without any trouble at all. The bad thing is that I don't have any need whatsoever to pull all-nighters.
I came across a quote I rather like, it's attribuited to Winston Churchill:
You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing after they've exhausted all the other possibilities.
I also came across an intriguing idea in a very clumsily-written but fascinating book called Winter World by Bernd Heinrich. Burning wood is actually burning stored solar energy. So by that logic, my car runs on very old sunlight. I'm such an environmentalist! I can't wait for one of the fuel companies to pull a McDonald's: Clean, Solar-Powered Fireplaces, Our Coal Uses Only 100% Prehistoric Sunlight and Wood: God's Batteries
I hope the books were purchased by pulp paper companies.
No one does the culture of death with more of a vengeance - literally so - than the doomsday right. The "Left Behind" novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins all but pant for the bloody demise of nonbelievers at Armageddon. And now, as Eric J. Greenberg has reported in The Forward, there's even a children's auxiliary: a 40-title series, "Left Behind: The Kids," that warns Jewish children of the hell that awaits them if they don't convert before it's too late. Eleven million copies have been sold on top of the original series' 60 million.
[...] NBC broadcasts its "Left Behind" simulation, "Revelations" [...] In the pilot a heretofore nonobservant Christian teenage girl in a "persistent vegetative state" - and in Florida, yet - starts babbling Latin texts from the show's New Testament namesake just as dastardly scientists ("devil's advocates," as they're referred to) and organ-seekers conspire to pull the plug. "All the signs and symbols set forth in the Bible are currently in place for the end of days," says the show's adult heroine, an Oxford-educated nun who has been denounced by the Vatican [...] - nytimes.
I don't think it'll make my top ten.
But this does!
Though the president of the United States believes that the jury is still out on evolution, John Paul in 1996 officially declared that "fresh knowledge leads to recognition of the theory of evolution as more than just a hypothesis."
The Texas specialty drink I read about this morning - beer and tomato juice, called a 'red draw' - sounds like the fastest route to projectile vomiting yet invented.
http://www.haveyougotthetouch.co.nz/lynxtouch/nz/launch.aspx - This is the Lynx Touch marketing campaign. How tasteful.
In other pornography news, archaeologists reckon they've found a pornographic statue about 7,200 years old. For some reason they found this surprising. I've always kind of assumed that humans used to be a lot more relaxed about sex, before all this religion got in the way.
Posted by phreq at April 11, 2005 06:02 AM | TrackBack
I would have liked to reach the Lynx inner circle, I’m sure I would have been content there. But unfortunately I didn’t reach the minimum criteria.
Posted by: Vincent at April 13, 2005 12:15 PM