Righty-then. - 20 May 2007

[silveradept]

This will be brief - got drawn into a game, and then didn’t realize just how much time had elapsed.

The eulogies continue for Jerry Falwell - but there may not be one so interesting as Larry Flynt discussing the friendship he had with Falwell. I’d call it a rivalry, myself, but even while preaching fire and brimstone and not giving an inch, apparently Larry and Jerry got along reasonably well. There are still others stepping in to fill the void that he left, as Newt Gingrich called on Liberty University graduates to challenge "radical secularism". The Ohio Legislature, however, is putting its foot down a bit more on the evangelizing, specific-deity-invoking prayers that open their daily sessions.

Someone in the Canadian parliament must have let the wrong word slip out, as opposition parties are demanding the release of a "how to create chaos in parliamentary proceedings" guide supposedly distributed to Conservative MPs. I don’t know - I always thought the dirty tricks manual was just something you picked up on while you were in office. Now that there’s mention of a guide, I’d like to see it myself.

President Bush may soon be missing one of his staunchest allies in the Iraq campaign - the new prime minister has made several suggestions that he will look to withdraw UK troops from the conflict. Mr. Bush will feel pressured to make up the shortfall in some way, no doubt.

After a possible meteor did in the dinosaurs, scientists will be unveiling a theory, found by studying diamonds, that suggests a comet explosion and the resulting fireballs, and the thousand-year ice age that followed helped to kill off the mammoths and much of Stone Age civilization. Much evidence yet to be collected, but it might be another piece in the historical puzzle.

Science (SCIENCE!) is bringing much of its work into the third dimension for cellular biology and the like. Scientific American has an article about a self-assembling lattice that hopes to make culture growth more normal and three-dimensional. Better cultures for science, or better science culture... either way, the scaffold, should it be tweakable enough to be multipurpose, might be the new way people grow cells.

I have, for people who wish to chew on them, three articles that all make the claim that man-caused global warming is not the danger many would like us to believe. They all came out of quicknews, which I will note, has a strongly conservative bend to its featuring. Thus, all disclaimers aside, in rapid-fire, Orson Scott Card takes Andrew Brod to task over his acceptance of man-made warming's dangers on faith, Augie Auer says humans haven't done enough to do warming, and that water vapour is the primary greenhouse effect catalyst, and an older piece, Joe Mariani believing that the warming is part of a regulartory cycle, and that things like Kyoto will increase pollution, not decrease it.

So, that’s all of it. I’ll be falling into bed now. I just tend to get wrapped up in things...

Comments

[rowenablue.livejournal.com]

i'd be perfectly happy w/ the specific deity prayers, if they'd just rotate the deities. one week, God. next week, Kali
next week Thor....etc.

[silveradept]

That would be interesting to watch - and to schedule. How would you make sure that all of the correct deities got representation and none were slighted?

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

That would take a long time if you have to pray to every single God/Goddess there is in existence.

[silveradept]

At one a day, it could very well take at least a year, maybe more, to get all the appropriate deities instilled.

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

I think it would also depend how deep you plan on going in finding the dieties - are you also going to include all the roman and greek gods?

[silveradept]

Well, how complete would you like to be. We can start with El or whomever the oldest deities are and work our way forward. Probably by the next election, we might have made it to names that people recognize.

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

haha! and even then the recognized names would be few and far between.

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

Despite the somber tone of the day, graduates who covered the football field chanted "Jerry! Jerry!" in tribute to Falwell.

are they sure they weren't chanting "Jerry! Jerry!" because they know they belong on the Jerry Springer show?

[silveradept]

I don't know. I don't think too many Liberty University types would have any interest in trash television.

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

probably not, but the only way I can picture "Jerry! Jerry!" being chanted is Jerry Springer style.

[uncle-pervy.livejournal.com]

Now if only a couple incest-bred rednecks came onto the field with Springer and started with the Beast of Two Backs in front of everyone. I would've paid with blood & body organs to see the look of disgust on their faces when they couldn't tear themselves away fast enough.