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NO PROBLEM

“He did a little tap dance on it, completely destroying it.”

GIRL NEED NOT GIVE BIRTH TO HEADLESS INFANT

In an affidavit presented earlier to the court, Miss D said: “As I was lying on the bed for the scan and the nurse was showing me various parts of the baby on the monitor, it became clear that the baby had no head and a consultant was called.
“I was extremely distressed by this news […]

PRAYER CLUB FOR MEN

The Washington Post asks: Did Justices’ Catholicism Play Part in Abortion Ruling? Yes, praise God, sez some blawg guy. Me, I think it may have more to do with Y chromosomes. I mean, look at this happy celebration:

Yay, we don’t have uteruses!
Here’s what some chick named Ruth Bader Ginsburg had to say.
And here’s a lovely […]

WOOHOO

In a surprise move today, the Discordian Society, a small neo-religious group which worships the Ancient Greek Deity of Chaos called “Eris” (and known to the Ancient Romans as “Discordia”), have announced that they have acquired the non-corporeal realm known as “Limbo”.
Limbo, the theological concept [claimed as] previously belonging to the Christian Catholic Church, was […]

RELIGION AND PATRIOTISM

Interesting poll results here:
Beyond the Veil (Foreign Policy)

SOME RESTRICTIONS MAY APPLY

Bush Calls for ‘Culture of Life’ (AP)

WHY I AM NOT AND WILL NEVER BE A FOLLOWER

Jonestown. Fucking brr.
Don’t be following me, either. When people start following me, I feel like Galadriel in Lord of the Rings and Frodo’s just offered me the fucking One Ring. That’s okay, lil’ hobbit, I prefer to merely live out my span and fade away. As someone once said:
Do not follow me, for I may […]

MUSIC OF THE SCRUFFY GODS

Violin god goes busking in DC, and there is video:

In the three-quarters of an hour that Joshua Bell played, seven people stopped what they were doing to hang around and take in the performance, at least for a minute. Twenty-seven gave money, most of them on the run — for a total of $32 and […]

LIBERTY, EQUALITY, BOTANY

Meet the oak tree that owns itself. In 1832, it was emancipated and given land. Rise up, o leafy ones, and smash the tyranny of mammalian masters!
I don’t know what happened just then. Maybe I was channeling the magnolia outside my window—the one that was flowering so beautifully until it was suddenly winter again.
By the […]

EASTER IN BAGHDAD

In pictures: Easter celebrations (BBC)