Paul Ehrlich has not merely been wrong in his long career as a “population expert”: he has been demonstrably, repeatedly, spectacularly wrong about almost everything. Somehow, he’s not only failed to offer groveling apologies for a lifetime of saying stupid things, but continues to claim he was right all along. Ehrlich is most famous as [...]
The girls are now spending part of each day in a temporary enclosure outside while I struggle to slap together a coop that will be predator proof.
As I mentioned last week, I had to wrap up the September issue of Games Magazine, which led to lighter-than-usual posting at the end of the week. In order to make up for that, I’m going to post five days worth of insidious browser-based time-wasters: little games that will make that coffee break vanish faster [...]
This is a special note to evangelical atheists, religion haters, and members of the Church of Scientism who are haunting my comboxes leaving snippy little screeds. You bore me, and you’ve been boring me for far too long. When I was returning to the Church after being out for 15 years, my first task was [...]
Charm City Cakes (of Ace of Cakes fame) made this awesome groom’s cake in the form of the Ark of the Covenant. No word about whether the groom was a Biblical scholar or just a really big Raiders of the Lost Ark fan (although based on the snakes, I’m guessing Raiders). Unfortunately, the groom made [...]
Jeff Miller–the Curt Jester–performs an excellent service for tech-lovin’ Catholics by compiling Pope Benedict’s various documents, speeches, and so on into both Kindle and standard epub format. You can find his archive here, and he usually updates them every week. For free! Cardinal Ratzinger’s writings were a key part of my return to the Church, [...]
You know why I’m certain that the singularity predictions are complete bunk? Because we know so little about the brain that we’re still not altogether sure what causes “brain freeze,” those hideous headaches you get from that first, always-too-fast sip of a Slurpee. Until recently, there was some speculation that it had to do with [...]
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