Quickie post

[solarbird]

Here, have some links pulled off my friendslist! First, the fun ones:

elfs links to some awfully pretty pictures. Worksafe.

From zarq, two links: Bad Logo Design, and video of a walk over El Camino del Rey, which may be vertigo inducing for those who have that problem, but is also made of awesome.

From the Northwest Convention League mailing list, Welcome to Steve's Weird House.

Now a vile political one:

From elfs, we have the formerly funny but now grotesque former star of Comedy Central's Win Ben Stein's Money prostituting himself on Trinity Broadcasting Network for his creationist shill movie "Expelled," saying science leads to the Holocaust and to killing people. Directly. Note the TBN host enthusiastically agreeing.

And now an important political one:

Firedog Lake is staging a letter-writing protest to hundreds of newspapers for the complete failure to cover the Bush administration's admission of approving torture at the highest levels in defiance of both Congressional and treaty law. You might help out. Over here, you can read up about how the Justice Department is again saying that the US government can torture if it wants, at will, and how the so-called McCain "Compromise" in the Military Commissions Act was intended to create this opinion.

And also, here is a reminder of the massive Pentagon psy-op/domestic propaganda operation directed at the US public to lie about and support the Iraq war and occupation.

Comments

[epawtows.livejournal.com]

Interesting commentary on the whole "Expelled" mess over at the Bad Astronomer's blog (badastronomy.com). A interesting blog, in general.

[lickingtoad.livejournal.com]

Seriously, before I was just annoyed by Ben Stein's mannerisms and his personal traits. That was *just fine* in comparison, because now I want to bash his head in with a chair.

[solarbird]

Science produced the Holocaust.

I actually find myself hoping he's only gone senile.

[westrider.livejournal.com]

In those really pretty pictures, I keep getting caught by surprise when they don't have LOL-* type captions. Been spending too much time over at ICHC, I guess ;)