I finally got all the write Javascript/permissions/etc crap set to allow me to successfully complete the religion selector. Amazingly enough, I arrive at:

1. Secular Humanism (100%)
2. Nontheist (88%)
3. Unitarian Universalism (88%)

What? Where did that Unitarian thing come from? Are they an atheistic church? What gives? My real theory is that if you peg hard enough as a materialist along the materialist/duallist continuum that all the other discriminants reduce to singularities.

Oooooh. More about Saddam's brand of insanity, this time on film. Cinemax will be running the documentary on November 26th at 7:00pm. I'll be setting my TiVo to capture that, sho'nuff.

News flash! Stupidity and hypocrisy not in short supply in Iowa. (Found via Pejman Pundit)

BWA-hahahahahaha! It's so obvious, and yet so amusing.

It's rather like shooting fish in a barrel, I know, but Michael Jackson's weirdness is accelerating.

It's actually a pretty long article, and although it mentions references and authorities quite a few times it doesn't have a single footnote nor an endnote so it's hard to verify its premises, but it's still an interesting opinion about Saddam Hussein the person.

You don't say! You mean that the lumps of lead traveling down the barrel at supersonic speeds along with astonishingly hot gases don't always emerge exactly identical to four decimal places? Shocking.

To quoteJim Treacher quoting Achewood:

Everybody dance
everybody dance
everybody dance
LIKE THERE'S ASS IN YOUR PANTS

Apparently, prison in Lithuania is nothing like prison in the U.S. (Found via Corsair

Happy Fun Pundit lights a fire under chief inspector Hans Blix, and boy is it ugly. Go and read.

Uhhhh ... ewwwww. Apparently there is a dark side to the Mac faithful.

A Duke University confirms that the Atkins diet had measurably better results than the American Heart Association's low-fat diet. Published in the American Journal of Medicine, no less. Dayum!!! Cheeseburgers for everyone!

Which religion are you? Is there no end to these silly quizzes?

If only I could read Arabic ... although the pictures are, um, entertaining. Not safe for work, mind you. Found via the inestimable Jim Treacher.

I'm absolutely staggered. My brane explodiated. See for yourself. Not really unsafe for work, but your cow-orkers may wonder what's wrong with you that you're watching something this ... bizarre. (Found via a Godless Capitalist (my demi-hero) on Gene Expression)

(Links probably not working, damn Blogspot ... scroll down to "Well That is Awful Presumptuous Of You
") Corsair the Rational Pirate once again finds more of the Clue-Challenged Religious Folk doing what is (apparently) indigenous in their circles: stupid shit. I'm entirely with Corsair here (that they're insane), and further I don't understand why in the world these people got a pass from the newspaper. If they were making the same kinds of counterfactual claims involving flying saucers or cornholing their cousins, then there would be no end to the winking, nudging, and hinting at their genetic unfitness. How come invoking an imaginary friend gets them a pass?

It doesn't appear that Saddam is planning to bug out himself, but he is (apparently) arranging a bolthole for his family and top advisors. Do ya think maybe he knows something?

BWA-hahahahaha! Thomas Friedman tells it like it is about the "new" NATO. (free registration required blah blah blah). Found via Glenn Reynolds.