Archives April 2007

Kurt Is Up in Heaven now

For those who haven’t heard yet, Kurt Vonnegut has passed away. And so it goes.

So this might be a good time to repost his list of liberal crap he’ll never have to listen to again:

  • Give us this day our daily bread.
    Oh sure.
  • Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those wh trespass against us.
    Nobody better trespass against me. I’ll tell you that.
  • Blessed are the meek.
  • Blessed are the merciful.
    You mean we can’t use torture?
  • Blessed are the peacemakers.
    Jane Fonda?
  • Love your enemies
    Arabs?
  • Ye cannot serve God and Mammon.
    The hell I can’t! Look at the Reverend Pat Robertson. And he is as happy as a pig in shit.

(See PZ’s explanation of the title of this post.)

Johnny Hart Has Passed Away

So says the Washington Post.

More Godless Numbers

Newsweek reports the results of a religious identification survey they recently conducted. The bits of interest to me are:

  • 91% of Americans “believe in God”.
  • 82% identify themselves as Christian.
  • 10% have “no religion”.
  • 6% “don’t believe in a God at all”.
  • 3% “self-identifies as atheist”

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Too Much Packaging

I think I like the idea of a tax on packaging more and more. Not a punitive tax aimed at discouraging the activity altogether, like taxes on tobacco, but just enough to make people stop and think, “Do I actually need this particular bit of packaging?”

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