religion
Garden gnomes banned from church cemetery because they are 'unnatural creatures'
My XKCD moment
I’m having my XKCD moment right now.
One of my clients runs a website for comparative religion and related theist/non-theist discussion at a major university. As I’m going through cleaning up some code, I see the pitiful Giraffe’s Neck defense. Grr. Must. Resist. It’s not my site, it’s not my place, it’s not my job to educate these poor people.
But, someone on the internet is wrong. And yes, I’m aware of the syntactical error in that comic. How very meta. Sometimes I think Randall does that on purpose.
It's Called Queening
Bishops can move diagonally, but if they touch a pawn, the pawn’s not allowed to tell. But suddenly the pawn doesn’t do as well in school.
The Magic Man Can
Here, this is the complete curriculum for the intelligent design part of the syllabus:
A magic man done it.
There, finished! There are no experiments that need to be summarized, no details that need to be explored, no complicated mechanisms that need to be explicated. Parents can exhaustively cover the subject in a moment or two some evening, or perhaps Mom could could scribble it down on a note in her child’s lunch. If they’re ambitious, they could send them off to a Sunday School, which might be taxed by the sudden increase in difficulty over the usual pap they dispense, but they’ll cope, perhaps by dumbing it down a little more.
