“I didn’t come from no monkey.”

Can monkeys talk?

Brian Greene – The Search For Hidden Dimensions

Who you goina … SHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Don’t call nobody while you’re in a library. Take that shit outside.

It’s a little slow at first, but it’s pretty good.

Evolution of compassion on our back deck

Monday morning, Tina and I were sipping tea, eating some cereal and watching some birds at our bird feeder. One female who appeared to be a young adult seemed to be feeding two older females. She would find food either in the feeder or strewn in a flower basket and deliver it straight to the mouths of the ones who weren’t as agile.

We were stricken by the compassion shown by birds to each other.

Of course, these birds were female. The male flew up at one point and just took a slog for himself. Selfish jerk.

I got some shaky, handheld footage:

The Ten Commandment Boogie

Links to read

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Today’s links brought to you following the success of this post.

• Ted Haggard starts a new church. Meth may or may not be served during the services.
• Man robs Shreveport store wearing “I Love Jesus” hat. Good thing his hat didn’t say “I love Yeshua”. He still has a good chance of getting into heaven.
• Another Christian artist and husband of 30 years, Ray Boltz, proudly exits closet. Keep on paving the way to change the idiotic, pointless zeitgeist, kids!
• Glenn Beck and I have something in common, our ratings are down by over half. Here’s the Beck story. Maybe I should catch a ride on the clue train. I haven’t had the same hit counts since February during the Pullman WA episodes and then the still-delusioned John Loftus spike.
• Minnesota Gubernatorial Incumbent Tim Pawlenty homophobicly vetoed  simple decency legislation that would give some end-of-life rights to gay couples.
• Christian rock band PETRA reunites. It reminds me of the days when my parents took us kids to fraud Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker’s PTL (Heritage USA) and we got sucker punched after giving loads of dough to the weeping willow dynamic duo only to have him blow it on loose women and lasertag™ for his kids. Also of note, remember those t-shirts, “I ran into Tammy Faye at the mall“?
• SHOCK! Rapper DMX finds Jesus in prison. Doesn’t do it to make early probation. Watch “A Clockwork Orange” again and keep on searching for Yeshua, my brother.

The 50 Greatest Hip-hop Samples of all time

Be sure to find the graphic that says “Click Here to Start.” I didn’t find it right away, and I found softcore porn before I found the 50 samples.

Here you go — and you’re off.

Christian woman eulogizes Ronnie James Dio

[Cynical C]

Some quotes that caught my eyeballs and tickled my brain

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

— Goethe

“Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes”

— Thoreau

There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag-and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty-and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.

— Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook