I guess if you don't understand the science behind it...

...the Big Bang doesn't sound a whole lot more reasonable than any other creation myth.

But I just read a book about it, so I'm good.

Today's Mystery Ingredient:

Isolated carrot product.

Stay classy, Richmond.

My goal is to know everything...

...and I'm off to a damned slow start.

"Six days shalt thou labour..."

"...and do all thy work." (Exodus 20:9)

So, do Biblical literalists insist on working on Saturdays?

Global Warming

I'm really starting to feel as though there's no one in the global warming debate that can be trusted. On one side are the energy companies that want to do what they've always done whether it melts the icecaps or not and conservatives that think Jesus is coming back tomorrow, so it doesn't matter what happens to the planet--or that global warming is a bunch of hippie nonsense, anyway. Then, on the other side, are environmentalists who want to switch to wind and solar tomorrow and return to some pre-industrial fantasyland or unrepentant Stalinists who love environmental causes because they provide a new opportunity for controlling other people's lives.

Science, of course, should be able to provide an objective answer, but it doesn't look like that's happening. This seems to be an issue where academia has a preferred answer every bit as much as private industry.

New Dollar Coin

John Quincy Adams?

Or The Creature from the Black Lagoon?

I had always assumed that Miller vs. California...

...relaxed restrictions on pornography. Now I discover that's not exactly true. I'd never bothered to look into it all that closely, but since pornography is a lot more available now than it was in 1972, I'd just sort of assumed...

Women sleep with losers all the time...

...but rarely with guys that consider themselves losers.

And almost never with guys that they think are losers.

Women value confidence even if they have to give up something to get it.


(Not that I really know anything about women. Or confidence.)

I always thought that Canadians...

...were supposed to be polite and unassuming. But every spring, a bunch of Canadians come to the hotel on a golfing trip and they are--without exception--a bunch of overbearing jackasses.