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Personally, I thought the Heinz mayo commercial was hilarious.
The kids definitely didn’t get their accents from their mum!
It surprised me that the ad was pulled from the airwaves in the UK but that is because I just assume the British are a little less uptight than Americans. Maybe I am wrong about that. Maybe being [...]

Please, please, do not let election 2008 become Bible Wars 2008. For the record, it’s very doubtful that Dobson or Obama have a proper understanding of the book behind their religion. Obama’s may have the advantage of being more vague and more self-consciously informed by modern ethical notions. Dobson’s may have the advantage [...]

I have stated before on this blog and in other contexts that universal common ancestry is “proven” by multiple lines of very strong evidence. I sometimes take it for granted that most people are at least dimly aware of this, even if they haven’t looked into the question personally in any depth. That is a [...]

Got this in my email box today
****CAN OBAMA BE PRESIDENT?
It seems that Barack Obama is not qualified to be president afterall for the following reason:
Barack Obama is not legally a U.S. natural-born citizen according to the law on the books at the time of his birth, which falls between “December 24, 1952 to November 13, [...]

I took that long lonesome trip back to work today. And now I have to wade through a ton of paper and emails. Many phone calls to return and I know if history is any indicator I will spend the next week trying to get my feet back on the ground.
I did have a wonderful [...]

Considering as how Obama already has the black vote wrapped up, and motivated to appear in force, this sounds, to this cynic’s ear, like an appeal to white America.
A Sister Souljah moment, if you will pardon the cliche’.
Bill Cosby raised the ire of many in the black community when he started his one-man crusade [...]

Rare glimpse at the evolution of a complex new ability:
Something, he concluded, must have happened around generation 20,000 that laid the groundwork for Cit+ to later evolve.
Lenski and his colleagues are now working to identify just what that earlier change was, and how it made the Cit+ mutation possible more than 10,000 generations later.
In the [...]

On my way to Amelia Island.
I intend to spend a week locked inside a room where the thermostat is set on 68 while the rest of the family frolics in the sand and the heat.
My hope is not to as much as stumble across a television news station or even look at a newspaper. I [...]

The real story here is a self-described atheist couple behaving very unethically. But what I found remarkable was the quote at the end:
He added that a special ceremony would be held to purify the confession box.
What kind of ceremony gets up that kind of stuff, anyway? If it’s my confession booth, I’m going [...]

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