This from CNN: Early Tuesday, a group of people dragged the woman, believed to be in her late teens to early 20s, to a dumping ground outside the city of Mount Hagen. They stripped her naked, bound her hands and legs, stuffed a cloth in her mouth, tied her to a log and set her [...]
So I’m reading the BBC website, and I happen to spy an article entitled “Nigeria bikers’ vegetable helmets”- How can you not read an article like that? First, it turns out that the helmets are made of pumpkins and it is partially in response to the new law requiring motorcycle helmets, and it is mostly [...]
It seems the god-squad have had a revelation: Mass media can influence people’s opinion. (Gasp! Oooooo ahhhhh!) The “Symposium on Science Fiction and Christian Filmmaking” will focus on the theology of Science Fiction, analyzing how the worldview conveyed through Sci-Fi films has shaped cultural priorities. “Sci-Fi movies of the last fifty years have provided America [...]
Sometimes you have to applaud someone when they come out and make a completely honest and factual pronouncement:
Here’s a victory for common sense. Pity it didn’t happen in the US. A DERBY Muslim who sued Tesco for religious discrimination after he was asked to handle crates of alcohol has lost his case. Mohammed Ahmed, who worked in a warehouse, said the job was against his Islamic beliefs. The 32-year-old, of Upper Dale [...]
I don’t care, even if it is Halloween, when the local stations desperately troll around to find a good “haunting”story it just makes a bigger mockery of television news than it already was. ABC-15 Reports that valley radio station KDKB is haunted. For their “investigation” of this hard-hitting news story, they brought in Lori McDonald, [...]
It’s videos like these that make you want to put up a website to fight the darkness… I pity this woman’s husband, if he votes for <CORN PONE ACCENT>Oh-Bah-Ma</CORN PONE ACCENT>, she’s probably going to sit on him. The Lord can’t save him from the laws of gravity – he’s a goner! Hat tip to [...]
At least this isn’t my tax money at work. SECRET documents have revealed the MoD have been studying the paranormal and other unexplained scientific phenomenon for use in the war against terror. The newly released files show that just after 9/11, the Ministry of Defence conducted a research project into psychics – with the possibility [...]
There are days when it seems the world is positively brimming with conspiracy nuts. There are garden-variety ones and then there are the “superstars” such as David Icke, Richard Hoagland and Stanton Friedman. Are the sincere nuts, or cynical exploiters of uncritical sincere nuts? I have to say, I cannot imagine how some of these [...]
Light of reason for the week, on why people should refrain from using phrases like Darwinian evolution. In short, Darwin did more in one lifetime than most of us could hope to accomplish in two. But his giantism has had an odd and problematic consequence. It’s a tendency for everyone to refer back to him. [...]