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Category: Enlightenment Warrior

  • Super Science Ninja Squad: Jane Goodall

  • The Hyper Ass-Whupping Global Warming Arena Ruckus Spectacular Hootenanny

    HAWGWARSH Not to be outdone by Steve Milloy, I’m offering a BAZILLION-JILLION DOLLARS (That’s more money than infinity!) to anyone who can disprove the following Global Warming Hypotheses: HAWGWARSH Hypothesis #1 A genetically-engineered race of super-elves, funded by the axis of Cultural Villainy’s Sierra Club, Lambda Horizons, and China are rubbing their buttockses together in…

  • Steve Milloy’s Ultimate Global Warming Challenge

    LOL Steve Milloy Steve “JunkScience” Milloy, who in addition to his Faux News paycheck, receives hundreds of thousands of dollars from the tobacco industry to assure Faux viewers that second-hand smoke is a myth and cancer links to cigarettes are overblown, has issued an Ultimate Global Warming Challenge. $125,000 will be awarded to the first…

  • Blackwater Public Forum

    Blackwater Satellite Photo: 36.27 N 76.12W I live just 30 minutes south of the Blackwater Training Center, the company which has been in the news much of late for killing Iraqi civilians. Locals here in North Eastern North Carolina overwhelmingly support Blackwater, which is one of the area’s largest employers (600 locals), against the charges.…

  • Moving Mountains to Overcome Cultural Stasis

    Querty VS Dvorak Keyboard layouts… The Metric System… Base number systems… Where to sneeze… I’ve been wrestling with a lot of obsolete cultural artifacts in the last few weeks. All of these subjects are examples of society adhering to overly-complex, inefficient, or just plain wrong cultural standards. We make life complicated for a our children…

  • The Nobel Prizes 2007

    The Nobel Peace Prize Congratulations to Al Gore and the entire Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for wining the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, “for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.” This makes…

  • Al Gore’s Candidacy for the Nobel Peace Prize

    Incoherent letters to the editor are expressing outrage over the rumors about Al Gore’s nomination. Damian Thompson brought up the tired old argument that Al Gore produces greenhouse gases by existing (which are preferable to the plague of mind-numbing stupidity Thompson’s columns invoke in his readers). Faux News commentators were practically falling over one another…

  • Banned Books Week 2007

    Madeleine L’Engle #22 on the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000 A Wrinkle in Time What I believe is so magnificent, so glorious, that it is beyond finite comprehension. To believe that the universe was created by a purposeful, benign Creator is one thing. To believe that this Creator took on human vesture, accepted…

  • American Government Workers Outnumber Private Sector

    So I’ve been trying to follow the recent revelation that, if you count all the government employees and contractors, that there are now more people in America reliant on the government for their paycheck than there are in the private sector. The NYT covered the blog wars about it in their article, Debating American Serfdom.…

  • President Ahmadinejad Goes to Columbia University and Gets Spanked

    …and the Columbia president, Lee Bollinger, took him to the ‘splainin’ room: “Mr. President, you exhibit all the signs of a petty and cruel dictator,” he said, to applause, before directly issuing Mr. Ahmadinejad a series of strongly worded questions on his country’s poor record of civil rights and support of terrorism. “I doubt that…

  • Tales of the Super Science Ninja Squad: Benjamin Franklin

    Tales of the Super Science Ninja Squad Benjamin Franklin This is only a small part of the story, check out Franklin’s Unholy Lightning Rod to read about the religious resistance to this invention.

  • Wilson Quarterlies, I Has Them

    Wilson Quarterly “Surveying the World of Ideas“ The WQ’s recent article “The Climate Engineers,” made it to the journal’s online version, and reading it reminded me what I’ve been missing out on in the last three years since I let my subscription lapse. The article looks at the entire history of Climate Engineering, from the…