Archive > October 2008
Religion Clause: Court Holds Ministerial Exception Inapplicable To Quaker Directorship Positions
In Leaphart v. American Friends Service Committee, (ED PA, Oct. 22, 2008), plaintiff charged racial discrimination and retaliation under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act in connection with the refusal by the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) to hire and/or interview him for four positions within the organization.
Religion Clause: Court Holds Ministerial Exception Inapplicable To Quaker Directorship Positions
Religion Clause: Pope Speaks On Separation of Church and State
The Church is equally convinced that State and religion are called to support each other as they together serve the personal and social well-being of all. This harmonious cooperation between Church and State requires ecclesial and civic leaders to carry out their public duties with undaunted concern for the common good.
Religion Clause: Pope Speaks On Separation of Church and State
Synchronized Presidential Debating – 236.com – Video
This montage of synced-up footage from all three presidential debates confirms our deep-seated belief that every debate was exactly the same.
A Non-Socialist Alternative to Today's Capitalism: The eternal return of the limits to growth – Reason Magazine
[Now, what was the name of that alternative to capitalism and to socialism, what was it, it started with an F, some guy in Italy, can you remember?]
Trevor Blake: Prohibitionist Revisionism
Take a look at the picture of the statue of Hoagy Carmichael in this article. Now take a look at what must have been the source photograph here. Notice anything missing? Maybe this image will make it more clear. Hoagy’s cigarette is gone. I think if a person does or did smoke, there’s no use pretending they don’t or didn’t. Bette Davis looks like she is holding her hand in a funny way in this postage stamp until you realize her cigarette has been removed from the image. I’m kind of sad to learn this topic has a Wikipedia entry. People were smoking before mass media so it can’t be they were made to smoke because of mass media. Mass media doesn’t cause people to look fashionable, say funny things, crash cars or live in the USA so why should anyone think mass media can cause one to smoke?
Here is a public secret: advertising doesn’t work.
Raymond Scott – Chinatown, My Chinatown
Tad Tadlock is one of the dancers.
Chet Atkins – "China Town My China Town
Chet’s early playing of this tune was brilliant! And his innovative use of artificial harmonics was revolutionary! [Better than anything I've ever done.]
Jane Devin: The Christian Right Killed the Republican Party
Under the thumb of right-wing religion, the Republican party became a bloated fool, stuffed with hypocrisy, greed, and anti-intellectualism. In 2008, the price is being paid through lost elections and a loss of public trust. [Suckers.]
Inhabitat » Thai Temple Built From One Million Recycled Bottles
The temple, which sits in Thailand’s Sisaket province, roughly 370 miles northeast of Bangkok is made of more than a million recycled glass bottles.
Inhabitat » Thai Temple Built From One Million Recycled Bottles
Stephen Hawking
I have had motor neurone disease for practically all my adult life. Yet it has not prevented me from having a very attractive family, and being successful in my work. [STOP COMPLAINING.]
metalocalypse – happy dethday clips
MANY YEARS AGO SOMETHING GREW INSIDE YOUR POOR MOTHER.
YouTube – MESHUGGAH – Bleed
Taken From: obZen Produced by Ian McFarland & Killswitch Productions Directed, Written & Edited by Ian McFarland & Mike Pecci
denialism blog : Why good medicine requires materialism
Personally, I have no problem with people believing in God, Satan, fairies, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster (may we all be touched by His Noodley Appendages). What I have a problem with is people applying these beliefs to science and medicine.
Haunted houses! – Time Out New York
Judge 2: Peter Gilmore. The anointed High Priest has led the Churchof Satan (in, of course, Hell’s Kitchen) for seven years, and has been a hell-bent member since reading The Satanic Bible at age 13
Dead Freeways Bike Tour 6/11/2006 on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
Damien in grey, center.
Dead Freeways Bike Tour 6/11/2006 on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
Annals of Sociology: Red Sex, Blue Sex: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
Why do so many evangelical teen-agers become pregnant?
Annals of Sociology: Red Sex, Blue Sex: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
2008 and the Return of the Nation-State | Stratfor
[Ours] is a world of nations pursuing their own interests and collaborating where they choose. Those interests are economic, political and military, and they are part of a single fabric. The illusion of multilateralism was not put to rest — it will never die — but it was certainly put to bed. It is a world we can readily recognize from history.
