Posts under ‘Politics & Religion’

Huckabee got busted again, this time claiming most of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were clergymen. Best case scenario: 4 out of 56 of them were practicing or former preachers. Only 1 was an active minister. (Thanks for the link, Tim.)
This is the second time this week he’s demonstrated religion is going to [...]

Presidential wannabe Mike Huckabee is quoted as follows regarding abortion and the reduction in the American workforce:
“Sometimes we talk about why we’re importing so many people in our workforce,” the former Arkansas governor said. “It might be for the last 35 years, we have aborted more than a million people who would have been in [...]

Best Buy is dumping analog televisions effective immediately in anticipation of television going all HD in 2009. I say good for them, because it’s pointless for anyone to purchase an analog television that’s only going to be watchable for a year and a half. They’ll also be stocking the idiotic bail-out coupons the gov conjured [...]

The Illinois legislature recently passed a law requiring all schools to observe a moment of silence. The law had been previously vetoed by the governor, but the Illinois House and Senate overrode the veto. I have a lot of problems with this, beyond it being a way for the religious right to sneak mandatory prayer [...]

Watching Windows install itself is about as exciting as watching paint dry, particularly when it’s going onto a new hard drive in a server that puked its guts up the day before, Dell failed to deliver a new hard drive, and there are two buildings full of people relying on services to be restored, so [...]

A federal judge has ruled parts of the Patriot Act unconstitutional! Specifically, she has thrown out the provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act that violate the probable cause portion of the Fourth Amendment.
Ben Franklin said it best:
“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
It’s nice [...]

I was just a kid when the Reverend Jesse Jackson ran for president, and it was his second time around I was really becoming aware of national politics. Maybe it was just the school I went to, or the teachers I happened to have, but I remember him as being someone to look up to. [...]

I was reading a recent issue of Linux Journal when I stumbled across an ad featuring a prominent picture of a woman’s face and the headline “Don’t feel bad, our servers won’t go down on you, either.” I thought that was kind of ballsy for an IT publication, and I’ve been meaning to scan it [...]

Sort of, anyway. Check out the Worldclock, which my friend Becky pointed me to. It’s a compilation of statistics and you can watch how quickly people die versus how quickly new people are born, and you can see how many people die a variety of deaths, sustain a variety of injuries, and how quickly we’re [...]

A cancer researcher recently discovered he can burn saltwater and potentially use its energy to drive an engine. As seen in this news footage, he uses radio waves to separate hydrogen from the salt water, then simply uses a spark to ignite the hydrogen. It reminds me somewhat of the Brown’s Gas energy debate, but [...]