BlogBites

March 30th, 2005

Who among us has not, from time to time, felt the need for “Christian devotionals with mathematical content”? Three-Toed Sloth  

March 29th, 2005

Male spiders don’t have penises, and although they do have reproductive organs in the usual abdominal place, they’ve secondarily modify their mouthparts to do the actual work of mating. Pharyngula  

If you look closely at the photo of Bobo above, you will see that she is wearing pearls. This is to bolster her self-esteem versus all these tiny, coiffed French dogs. Beachshack  

March 28th, 2005

There’s never going to be an easy way to adjudicate these matters, and it would be characteristic of Republicans to pack something as Lifetime-cable sounding as “Terri’s Law” with all sorts of mischief. James Wolcott  

These are incredibly important issues, not just for libraries, but for the average person, who the courts are apparently leaving out of the equation entirely. The Shifted Librarian  

There is now no better, or more accurate, way to say it: The Republican Party has gone nuts — absolutely, certifiably, sycophantically nuts. p.m. carpenter  

Last, but not least, the meat chunks were a bit too small for a happy meat muffin. MeatHenge  

The information provided to us by science really does undercut the premises and explanation of Christianity and every other religion on the planet. Naked Writing Dot Com  

Don’t we have reporters any more? Or are they all stenographers? Steve Gilliard’s News Blog  

If my phone has 24/7 connectivity and hundreds of megabytes of storage (and getting bigger every day) then why can’t I serve up content from there? Russell Beattie Notebook  

March 25th, 2005

Sometimes it’s better to let the other side make fools of themselves without interfering. Political Animal  

You should always start with some quote by a pretentious dead person. Witt and Wisdom  

So why is the headline that the financial status of Social Security has gotten worse? Can you say “an easily snowed press corps”? I knew you could. Brad DeLong’s Semi-Daily Journal  

March 24th, 2005

Whether it’s manufacturing dirt on the president and precipitating a constitutional crisis, or just exploiting a family tragedy for political gain, your money’s always good with the GOP! moral values, my ass  

The cynical use by the US Republican Party of the Terri Schiavo case repeats, whether deliberately or accidentally, the tactics of Muslim fundamentalists and theocrats in places like Egypt and Pakistan. Informed Comment