Fresh Wallaby Juice

This was gonna be the start of a big long rant in which I marvel at how intolerant progressives can be. I would’ve particularly focused on my amazement at the fact that so many atheists are aggressively intolerant of the sincere religious beliefs of others — for instance, “I watched my father-in-law die this weekend. [...]

Although the authors are both on the side of science, they have not always agreed about the best ways to oppose religiously motivated threats to scientific practice or instruction…. In a dialogue they re-create here, the authors explained their respective tactics for engaging the enemy Scientific American, June 19 2007 “The authors” are Richard Dawkins [...]

Spent the afternoon coming up with a heat sink to put on the controller for a new part. Wound up with a metal box that

Not so much about the election results, but about some of the responses. I heard, Wednesday afternoon, a lady on NPR talking about why the various marriage proposals passed so overwhelmingly. “It’s because most people didn’t realize that these proposals also banned civil unions,” she said. “They would have voted differently if they’d understood that, [...]

The church I go to up here is about to begin the famous “40 Days of Purpose”. Yay. I started out fairly neutral on the idea – it’s been going through other churches in town, and I’d heard favorable comments from various friends, but it’s “in”, and I like “in” things in church no more [...]

Backdated. Sorry. Flew home for Christmas (yay!), it was a very good flight. Two of them, actually. Volunteered to get