MacRaven points to an
interesting conversation on biodiesel. Ed of Dispatches from the Culture Wars is skeptical of using corn for fuel, and he gives a number of fairly convincing reasons. Increased demand for corn has raised the price of corn, which has in turn raised the price of foods using corn products. It’s also [...] Read more »

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G-Dub has lost MC Hammer. Read more »

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Item in Boing Boing yesterday. Alison tries to “get funky” with her wedding invitations and gets slapped with a surcharge:

I thought you’d get a kick out of the ridiculousness that is the United States Postal “Service.” I’m getting married at the end of the summer and am using a lovely red No 10 standard size [...] Read more »

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Buried in an article by my favorite political blogger Maha is the sentence I’ve been waiting for:

We religious people are all thrashing around trying to comprehend the incomprehensible in our own imperfect way. Religion itself is just an interface. [
Heresies, emphasis mine ]

This is the distinction between fundamentalist religious expression and liberal religious expression. [...] Read more »

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Depending on your point of view, I guess this group of young adults lip-syncing “Flagpole Sitta” is either cute or the kind of crap we have to tolerate when we have inexpensive media production tools for the masses. Click through your RSS feed to see the video:

I kind of lean towards the former, but I [...] Read more »

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