This was the headline of our local paper today: EIGHTH!? What the flying fuck!? I can understand one DUI, people shouldn't drink and drive, but everyone makes mistakes and hopefully getting pulled over will be a huge wakeup call. I can even understand a second DUI.... But when do you cross the line from "poor decision maker" to "menace?" I'd say three DUIs. Surely it would be crossed with four or five. Definitely six, right? But eight DUIs!? I have got to out of this state, and fast!

Capitol Hill slayer told victims "there's plenty for everyone" By Jennifer Sullivan and Mike Carter Seattle Times staff reporters (Image) Kyle Huff, in a 2000 booking photo for criminal-mischief charges in Montana. Seattle police said that survivors of the massacre have told detectives that when Kyle Huff opened fire in the crowded house he told partygoers something to the effect of, "there's plenty for everyone." He meant ammunition — some 300 rounds of it, police said this morning. Two ...

I realize that many Christians (and most DUers) see that Genesis (and most of the Old Testiment) is actually a series of metaphors and stories, and is not a literal history of the world. If you happen to come across an old-Earth creationist however, who insists that the six days of creation is really what happened, you might want to point the following out to them: according to Genesis, the sun, moon, and stars are within the atmosphere and beyond the atmosphere is water. This was initially el...

It turned out well, I think. From , apparently the earliest cookbook still (partially) intact. The website was translated from Latin to German, and then from German to English by a native German speaker, so my recipe below has been corrected to standard English. ALITER DULCIA Ingredients: ------------ 250g pistachios and almonds 100g pine nuts 3-4 tblsp honey 1 tsp minced rue (I don't have access to this, I used orange peel instead, which supposedly tastes like rue) 50ml Passum (thick, wine s...

So, I work at a grocery store and I arrived at six this morning. After hanging up my coat and clocking in I pass by a bulletin board, and on the board is a printout that says the following: STORE CHRISTMAS PARTY (yes CHRISTmas party not holiday party) And then a sign up sheet for items to bring. I was frankly flabergasted, but seeing that it was six in the morning, I wasn't sure what I was thinking... I'm an agnostic, I celebrate Christmas though in the gifts and dinner sense, and I honestl...

for a number of reasons. The mistakes that have been made are not mistakes of bad science, but of interpretting things incorrectly based on limitted data. There are a number of things that are now becoming clear as we move into the 21st century that were not at all clear just 30 years ago, such as: 1) All animal life has a discoverable evolutionary history, and a single 'real' tree can be discovered, and is being discovered. This 'real' tree is somewhat different from the 'trees' that have b...

Even when Gould wrote Wonderful Life most of the "unique" organisms he talked about actually had well known associations with other animal groups. Even if they didn't at that time, Gould implies that they are so unique it's a waste of time to try to figure out the relationships. As a matter of fact though, Gould ignores the fact that most Burgess Shale animals do show a clear relationship to other organisms by conflating crown group characteristics with membership. In other words, even though...

In the order presented on the website you link: Grooved Spheres From a with an interview of Forbidden Archaeology's author, Michael Cremo, he says: These are round metallic objects that have been over the past couple of decades by miners in South Africa. The objects come from a mine near a place called Ottosdalin, in the West Transvaal region. The objects are one or two inches in diameter. The ones we had analyzed by metallurgists turned out to be made of an iron ore called hematite. The mos...

Overzealous mods locked this when it was posted in GD. Hopefully this will stay open longer and foster some discussion. There has been a concerning a photo taken by Opportunity supposedly showing a piece of lumber. The photo can be seen in the original thread. If we look at the "lumber" close up, and lighten the photo a little bit we see something amazing. It's a rock. And not just any rock, but a perfectly ordinary piece of sandstone, just like all the surrounding pieces of rock. (Image) ...

The letter below is in response to which is half way down the second page. --------------- Editor, This letter is in response to a long and rather rambling letter to the editor by Luke Morscheck (Writer mischaracterizes Christians in argument for gay marriage, 04 March 2004). I am not going to attempt to argue for or against the merits of Christianity that Mr. Morscheck discusses, but to correct several factually incorrect statements and logical missteps he makes. His first incorrect state...