art, politics, religion: discuss
Hey, it might not be your daughter in particular, but this guy wants to marry someone’s daughter.
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Actually, it’s just a dude that got in the way of my lens when I was trying to take a photo of some hot woman looking at Antiques at the event I shot tonight.
Bang Goes the Theory’s Liz Bonnin recently used mitochondrial DNA to trace her ancestry right back to the earliest humans. It’s a subject co-presenter Dr Yan Wong knows plenty about, and a great excuse for him to meet up with his old tutor Prof Richard Dawkins. The pair collaborated on a book, The Ancestor’s Tale, and here they chat about one of its main themes: how lineages of different genes can reveal surprisingly different histories.
From a reliable source:
WASHINGTON–In the continuing controversy surrounding the president’s U.S. citizenship, a new fringe group informally known as “Afterbirthers” demanded Monday the authentication of Barack Obama’s placenta from his time inside his mother’s womb. “All we are asking is that the president produce a sample of his fetal membranes and vessels—preferably along with a photo of the crowning and delivery—and this will all be over,” said former presidential candidate and Afterbirthers spokesman Alan Keyes, later adding that his organization would be willing to settle for a half-liter of maternal cord plasma. “To this day, the American people have not seen a cervical mucus plug, let alone one that has been signed and notarized by a state-certified Hawaiian health official. If the president was indeed born in the manner in which he claims, then where is his gestation sac?” Keyes said that if Obama did not soon produce at least a bloody bedsheet from his conception, Afterbirthers would push forward with efforts to exhume the president’s deceased mother and inspect the corpse’s pelvic bone and birth canal.
In other news, 20 Conspiracy Theories about the new fucking birth certificate.
Via Cynical C | Be sure to check out today’s Daily Dose of Ingersoll
Yesterday I dropped some movie recommendations and avoid-a-mendations. Read them here.
I thought of two more recommendations.
James the Preacher takes his message to the American Atheist Convention in Des Moines, Iowa over Easter Weekend. This video was taken April 23, 2011.
If you want the full story, you can read it on my blog post:http://sjmishra.wordpress.com/2011/04/26/james-the-preacher/
“There will be hell toupee.”
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This morning, I was going to post the above screen capture and say something snarky about it. But then I thought, what good would that do? If you think about it from an outsider’s modern perspective, there’s really nothing to say about it. It stands alone.
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And then I thought, I’ll post this hilarious headline from The Onion, and write about how it sure is hypocritical that birthers don’t put enough pressure on Jesus’ records. But then there would be a words war ended by the four words, “The bible said it.” Because thems the ultimate trump card.
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And finally, I thought about posting something regarding the destruction by the “Act of God” that just pummeled the southern US. And I wanted to say something snarky about god being the ultimate bad guy. But that wouldn’t do any good either, right? Because there’s a reason for all of that, right? Maybe there was too much homosexual behavior there or something?
Then I thought, you know what, I’ll take another route. I’ll just post these things and say I was going to write about them, and not write about them whilst writing about them. I decided to be hypocritical and self deprecating to appear clever. Just because. Because shoving these words down your throats doesn’t always work.
I hope you give some of these things some thought today. Because when I’m overwhelmed by it, I could either attack it or throw up my hands in defeat. Today it’s defeat.
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