Thus spake Evil Overload July 19, 2006 at 11:25 am
“YouTube, Google Video and related sites have revived vaudeville, then stabbed it in the neck with the razor-sharp shards of a torn can of energy drink, kicked it in the ribs, and left it onstage to writhe for the amusement of millions. And you can be part of it!”
Thus spake Evil Overload July 17, 2006 at 10:32 am
Primary sources confirming what many of us have suspected all along:
Fingers are pointed at various aspects of the schooling system—overcrowded classrooms, lack of funding, teachers who can’t pass competency exams in their fields, etc. But these are just secondary problems. Even if they were cleared up, schools would still suck. Why? Because they were designed to.
How can I make such a bold statement? How do I know why America’s public school system was designed the way it was (age-segregated, six to eight 50-minute classes in a row announced by Pavlovian bells, emphasis on rote memorization, lorded over by unquestionable authority figures, etc.)? Because the men who designed, funded, and implemented America’s formal educational system in the late 1800s and early 1900s wrote about what they were doing.
Catholic stem cell researchers could be banned from taking Holy Communion, relieved of church duties and even denied a church burial. That’s if Cardinal Alfonso López Trujillo gets his way.
Head of the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for the Family, Trujillo is the most senior Catholic official so far to proclaim on the morality of stem cell research. “Destroying human embryos is equivalent to an abortion,” he said in an interview in the Catholic weekly Famiglia Cristiana on 2 July. “Excommunication will be applied to the women, doctors and researchers who eliminate embryos [and to the] politicians that approve the law.”
Remember, if they sink to the bottom of the river, they must be without sin. Link
Despite the fact that riding a scooter proved to be a little harder than I had previously beleived, I have now broken the beast (almost literally) and will soon be taking to the road. Note the Flying Spaghetti Monster addition to the front. It was a gift from Evil Overload and the future Mrs. Evil Overload. I suspect that when I go down in a feiry inferno of metal and flesh, someone will ascribe my unpleasant demise to the Spaghetti Monster.
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