As someone who accepts the reality that there is almost certainly not a god, and likewise accepts as basically fact, the exceeding well-supported scientific Theory of evolution by natural selection, largely as described by Darwin, I find it pretty unpleasant to be likened to fascist mass-murderers, as people like Josef Ratzinger are wont to...
This is really interesting (if somewhat hard going): a fascinating discourse on why apes are indeed monkeys. (Hat tip to Gimpyblog for the link.) I’ve always said not, but I give in. Apes are monkeys… and so are we. Or in the words of Eddie Izzard: “You’re a fucking monkey, mate!”
It’s hot today. And I forgot to take a hairband with me to work (not counting all the hair bands on my iPhone – ha ha ), so I’ve been looking like Jesus all day. Well, looking like Jesus if he had scored a Vidal Sassoon beard trimmer for his birthday/Christmas (always combined...
I had an enjoyable chat this evening before dinner, with my 90 year old grandmother. Not any sort of stereotypical grandparent-ish chat; no doilies or tea, or Abe Simpson-esque reminiscing. Not at all. The catalyst for this evening’s chat was a Hubble calendar she had sitting around. We began to talk about the Hubble Deep...
As I mentioned in my post at the beginning of this week on Human Goodness, I was contacted by a guy named Duane who had put in a lot of effort to track down the original owner of a media player he bought online, so that he could send it back to him, First of...
