Farewell, Brother

His Dark Materials?

Truly a Bridge to Nowhere .............................................................

Charly tried to have this guy lynched.

To project(ile) and serve.

Muslim Gal, With Big Balls, Caught With Fainting Nellie

Unusual.......are we seeing light breaking through the darkness? Just the reflection of a slight silver lining in the dark cloud? One freaky brave gal, an outstanding nail to be hammered anon, and back to the cowering mainstream?

Another Bismarck Cougar: This One a Man-Eater

In this case, the North Dakota Game and Fish didn't get to this other cougar on the prowl in Bismarck in time:

A Bismarck man, Hugo Armendariz, 20, and woman, Kelly Hurley, 38, were arrested for having sex in the back of a pickup in a residential area... The [Bismarck] officer found the couple in the amorous moment and arrested them for indecent conduct.

Click on title link above.

A NickPit in the Dark? It Matters Not

The skies of night are the graveyard of astronomers.

A Bad Wave for Mr. Dark?

The Way to God is Through Madjad?

Well, if Madjad brings Pepe down to his knees for some "ululation", why not the Simon version?

In The Secret Recesses of His Heart Friedman 'Fesses To The Truth

Meanwhile, Le Pew keeps doing his Pepean walk over a flatbrowed Earth.

When politics trumps science

Lysenko rulz.

Of Clouds and Silver Linings

In crisis,opportunity, as Thuggo-in-Chief likes to say

Your typical academic

It was not the first time, nor was it to be the last, that Bruno's controversial views coupled with his abrasive sarcasm lost him the support of his friends. In October 1585, after the French embassy in London was attacked by a mob, he returned to Paris, finding a tense political situation. His 120 theses against Aristotelian natural science and his pamphlets against the mathematician Fabrizio Mordente soon put him in ill favor. In 1586, following a violent quarrel about Mordente's invention, "the differential compass," he left France for Germany.

In Germany he failed to obtain a teaching position at Marburg, but was granted permission to teach at Wittenberg, where he lectured on Aristotle for two years. However, with a change of intellectual climate there, he was no longer welcome, and went in 1588 to Prague, where he obtained 300 taler from Rudolf II, but no teaching position. He went on to serve briefly as a professor in Helmstedt, but had to flee again when he was excommunicated by the Lutherans. In 1591, he received an invitation to Venice, and also heard of a vacant chair in mathematics at the University of Padua. Apparently believing that the Inquisition might have lost some of its impetus, he returned to Italy.

He went first to Padua, where he taught briefly, and applied unsuccessfully for the chair of mathematics, which was assigned instead to Galileo Galilei one year later. Bruno accepted Mocenigo's invitation and moved to Venice in March 1592. When Bruno announced his plan to leave Venice to his host, the latter, who was unhappy with the teachings he had received and had apparently developed a personal rancour towards Bruno, denounced him to the Venetian Inquisition, which had Bruno arrested on May 22, 1592. On February 17, 1600 in the Campo de' Fiori, a central Roman market square, "his tongue imprisoned because of his wicked words" he was burned at the stake.

You don't say?

Note how this t-shirt design relates to that Buffalo television guy who chopped off his ex-wife's head. And didn't god order Abraham to gut his own son on that rock? Wow. Neat. Isn't that spectacular.

Thoughts of Komrad Arse-Shavin

A more eccentric Rotter.

Intellectual Suicide of Our West

The greatest threat to Western Civilization is simultaneously external and internal. The threat comes from individuals who seek to ban, burn or destroy a controversial idea rather than engage intellectually with it (think, for example, about the great library of Alexandria that was burned to the ground some centuries ago). Today there is plenty of understandable concern over Islam Militant. But there should also be concern when religions within our civilization -- Catholics and Protestants included -- attempt to ban, burn or destroy literature and scientific thought as well. What ever happened to coming up with intellectual arguments against stuff one disagrees with? How are we to hone our wits?

A professor friend of mine was recently told by an administrator at a religious and accredited university that she/he better watch out in assigning an essay or book by Carl Sagan. He/she assigned Sagan to encourage critical thinking, and help students hone their wits. A GOP-connected administrator heard that Sagan had been introduced, and has since taken up a campaign against this professor, calling (from what I understand) for his/her termination. And let it be known that if I heard about a professor assigning St. Thomas Aquinas to his/her students in a strictly secular state university, and some DNC administrator attempted to get this professor fired, I would be equally pissed.

So the West continues its attempts to commit suicide, a sort of light variation on this.

The Genius of Darwin (Cont'd), Vol. 2, Segments 1-5

Above is the first segment of this second volume. I'll link to subsequent segments chronologically below. This is all quite interesting.

Vol. 2, Part 2

Vol. 2, Part 3

Vol. 2, Part 4

Vol. 2, Part 5

Darwin Series 1-10

AA understandably requested more, so here it is.

The Genius of Charles Darwin, Parts 1-10

Part 10


Part 9


Part 8


Part 7


Part 6


Part 5


Part 4


Part 3


Part 2

That quintessentially French tradition

Aahhh, the French... They've been barbecuing cars ever since Henrie-Marie Coanda invented the jet engine, and promptly proceeded to burn it. Right, Pepe? But, could it be, could it be, that there is some other factor at play here? Naahhh, this is Pepean MSM, you'll never hear about the elephant in the room from them. Only a vague hint about a regular form of expression for disenfranchised suburban youths.

Spengler Lays Out the Law of the Lever

Archimedes would be proud; if also mired in a funk of gloom.