The New Yorker: “You know, I’m really feeling good about this whole intelligent-design deal,” said the Lord God. “But do you think that I could redo it, keeping the quality but making it at a price point we could all live with?”
Lot’s of clouds this morning as the outer bands of Rita drift over our part of the state. It must be awful for people who have been relocated twice for weather-related emergencies. The rest of us only have high gas prices to complain about. When gas hits five bucks a gallon, maybe all those dead-end sidewalks in Fayetteville will finally have to go somewhere.
Weatherwars.info contains pretty much every fringe, crackpot weather theory I’ve every heard of, and then some.
RSS feeds for ths site have been fixed. The WYSIWYG plugin I was using added an extra line to the XML.
I’m astounded at what kids at Ash’s school eat and drink. There are some kids, she swears, that have never drank water. Ever.
The Boston Globe: Billions of marketing dollars have lulled Americans into thinking that processed foods are real food. Is a Smuckers Uncrustable Pre-Browned Grillable Cheese Sandwich, even if it meets federal dietary guidelines, what you want your kids served for lunch?
Rolex or Replica shows some differences between the $15 NY version vs. the $5,000 jewelry-store variety. I wonder how many people who go to this page wish they hadn’t?
(I think it’s far more interesting to have a collection of fake Rolexi than the real things. Counterfeit luxury items always seem to capture the "essence" of the real things in interesting ways, i.e., revealing the most superficial aspects. Besides, Rolexes are fairly dull, horologically-speaking.)
pledgeQandA.com: "What would have been the opinions of Reverend Francis Bellamy, the author of the Pledge, and James Madison, "Father of the U.S. Constitution,’" about the June 26, 2002 9th US Circuit Court ruling (Michael Newdow v. U.S. Congress) that the words, "under God," added to the Pledge in 1954 and recited in most public schools, are in violation of the First Amendment? What organizations lead the effort to place "under God" in the Pledge?"