The story of Spike, who lived more lives than most ferrets.
Archive > December 2004
Jesus was named Jesus and was born of a young woman, unless Jesus was named Emanuel and born of a virgin. Jesus’ mother, Mary, did or did not remain a virgin for the rest of her life. Jesus was the grandson of Jacob or Heli or maybe somebody else. Jeconiah was one of his ancestors, unless he wasn’t because that would mean Jesus was not the messiah. Joseph was or was not his father. The birth of Jesus as a Nazarene was fortold in prophecy, except that prophecy does not occur in the Old Testament. Jesus was fortold by Moses, except that prophecy does not occur in the Old Testament. Nevertheless, Jesus was born in Bethlehem or Nazareth or Galille. After Jesus was born, the young family went to Egypt or Nazareth. Good thing that, because King Herod ordered the slaugher of all male babies in whatever town Jesus was in, or maybe he didn’t order that at all.
But don’t let these contradictions regarding the nativity bother you. The religion founded around Christ, Christianity, can be found by reason alone. Unless it can’t.
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Twenty Amazing Facts About Voting in the USA.
HAIKU
This young man wanted some ink.
He did no research.
Laugh at what happened with me.
“The final antidote to the terrorist problem is education, by way of debate and the discrediting of dysfunctional ideas.” – Old Hickory.
“Science has nothing to do with consensus. Politics is about consensus.” – Michael Crichton, discussing his new book State of Fear.
I think the reason I didn’t care for Lost in Space growing up was that it didn’t seem a possible future for me. I wasn’t part of the Robinson family, and they were lost anyway. But I could (and would) grow up and fly to the moon like in 2001, or join the Academy like in Star Trek. So I liked those futures better. And that stupid robot – warning! warning! I didn’t like it.
Well, I like life and more of it now than I used to. So three cheers for the dumb show Lost in Space, and people who build models of the robot B9. Like the B9 Robot Builders Club. Or the B9 Robot Resource. Or this guy’s page. Or this one. Or… well, you get the idea. I guess I was the only one who didn’t like B9. Now I’m indifferent. But it is still a bummer that 2001 has come and gone and I’m not on a PanAm shuttle to the moon, and that Lost in Space was supposed to occur in the year 1997. Oh well.
An exhaustive investigation has turned up a link between current Florida Republican Representative Tom Feeney, a customized Windows-based program to suppress Democratic votes on touch screen voting machines, a Florida computer services company with whom Feeney worked as a general counsel and registered lobbyist while he was Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, and top level officials of the Bush administration.
According to a notorized affidavit signed by Clint Curtis [pdf], while he was employed by the NASA Kennedy Space Center contractor, Yang Enterprises, Inc., during 2000, Feeney solicited him to write a program to “control the vote.” At the time, Curtis was of the opinion that the program was to be used for preventing fraud in the in the 2002 election in Palm Beach County, Florida. His mind was changed, however, when the true intentions of Feeney became clear: the computer program was going to be used to suppress the Democratic vote in counties with large Democratic registrations.
