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  • Environmentalism makes the H-list

    OK, I have a Hotmail account (is that too 2002 of me?), and I check it once a day. There's always a little story off to the left, something really thoughtful like "27 Ways to Pad Your Resume" or "Is He Cheating with Your Ex?" But today, the teaser is "Hot on Hotmail: Why environmentalism is so hot in the U.S." Granted, it just links to this not-so-hot Newsweek story. But still. We're, uh, officially hot.

  • From Succor to Soccer

    View unto others A group called Inconvenient Christians (best! name! ever!) is offering “committed, Bible-believing” peeps free tix to Al Gore’s movie. In return, Truth-seekers agree to post mini-reviews on the group’s site — and to shut up about The Da Vinci Code already. Weather or not China to scientists: Stop carrying out fraudulent research. […]

  • Watch out for those rising seas

    Read recently that scientists now think dodos (you remember them) went extinct not at the hands of humans, but because of a natural disaster. Specifically, because of cyclones or rising sea levels.

    Those dodos just sat there as sea levels rose? Didn't do anything? Went extinct? Ridiculous.

  • From Vengeance to Vision

    We’re not saying there’s a god But if there were, do you think He might fell a tree on the lawn of a flawed figurehead? Perhaps flood a few of the iconic institutions run by that person’s cabal? You know … if there were. Heads up It’s almost time for the Running of the Nudes! […]