People’s ignorance of the bible never fails to amaze me. Ronnie Earle, the prosecutor who worked to indict Tom Delay earlier this week thinks he’s on a mission from God because, as Earle said on film, “This is in the Bible. This isn’t rocket science. The root of all evil truly is money, especially in politics. People talk about how money is the mother’s milk of politics. Well, it’s the devil’s brew. And what we’ve got to do, we’ve got to turn off the tap.”

Mr. Earle needs to read the Bible. The Bible says in First Timothy 6:10, “For the love of money is the root of all evil.” I repeat for people like Mr. Earle who are confused. It is the LOVE OF MONEY that is the root of all evil, not money itself. Mr. Earle needs to read the Bible before he tries to quote from it. Hopefully he knows the law better than he knows the Bible.

Here’s your dumb computer prediction of the day: the pc is doing to die. That’s the argument in this article. It is an interesting article, but it’s a dumb prediction because the author failed to provide any evidence of why it is happening. All he says is, “broadband is coming.” So what? Call I can says is, “I’ll believe it when I see it.”

I’m playing with a new design for this blog. Right now I have one that works in Firefox, but it doesn’t work in Internet Explorer. I’m working on fixing that.

Nokinet–your #1 Resource for pointless minimalism. Yesterday it was He-Man. Today, it’s a stormstrooper. Tomorrow? Who know?

The New Orleans Times-Picayune is running a story that sets the record straight about the murders, killing, and lawlessness that happened at the Superdome and Convention Center in the aftermath of Katrina. They report that there were only 6 bodies found at the Dome and 4 at the Convention Center. While it is sad that 10 people died, the good news is that 10 is so much less than the rumors of dozens and dozens of dead bodies that were reported. Here’s the story.

From Justoneminute:

My official prediction is that the new Times Select will go down alongside “New Coke” as one of the great corporate belly-flops of the era. What, exactly, is the marketing pitch – “Pay for the opinions no one else is talking about”? Good luck.

That said, the Times decison to stifle their commentariat may be a great thing for the Dems, if it allows voices of reason to emerge.

I’m from Utah originally and one day I could live there again, but one place that I couldn’t stand living is in Utah Valley. Here’s one reason why–the police in Utah Valley are out of control. Be sure to watch the video.

If you want know why the TSA frustrates me, here’s a great article in Wired:

Sister Glenn Anne McPhee is a busy woman.

As the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ secretary for education, Sister McPhee oversees Catholic education in the United States, from nursery school through post-graduate. Her job includes working with the Department of Education, speaking frequently at conferences and scrutinizing religious textbooks to clear them with the teachings of the church.

For nine months in 2003 and 2004, Sister McPhee also took on the task of clearing her name from the government’s no-fly list, an endeavor that proved fruitless until she called on a higher power, the White House.

“I got to the point I could hardly go to the airport, because I couldn’t anticipate what would happen and I couldn’t do anything,” she said in an interview with Wired News. “I missed key addresses I was to give. I finally got to the point where I always checked my bag, because after I got through the police clearance, then they would put me through special security where they wand you from head to foot all over. They would dump out everything in your bag, then roll it into a ball and hand it back to you.”

Nice work TSA! Way to keep the country safe!

This story would be right at home in the Weekly World News. Instead, we find this bizarre story in The Observer:

Experts who have studied the US navy’s cetacean training exercises claim the 36 mammals could be carrying ‘toxic dart’ guns. Divers and surfers risk attack, they claim, from a species considered to be among the planet’s smartest. The US navy admits it has been training dolphins for military purposes, but has refused to confirm that any are missing.

Dolphins have been trained in attack-and-kill missions since the Cold War. The US Atlantic bottlenose dolphins have apparently been taught to shoot terrorists attacking military vessels. Their coastal compound was breached during the storm, sweeping them out to sea. But those who have studied the controversial use of dolphins in the US defence programme claim it is vital they are caught quickly.

Leo Sheridan, 72, a respected accident investigator who has worked for government and industry, said he had received intelligence from sources close to the US government’s marine fisheries service confirming dolphins had escaped.

‘My concern is that they have learnt to shoot at divers in wetsuits who have simulated terrorists in exercises. If divers or windsurfers are mistaken for a spy or suicide bomber and if equipped with special harnesses carrying toxic darts, they could fire,’ he said. ‘The darts are designed to put the target to sleep so they can be interrogated later, but what happens if the victim is not found for hours?’

Usually dolphins were controlled via signals transmitted through a neck harness. ‘The question is, were these dolphins made secure before Katrina struck?’ said Sheridan.

The mystery surfaced when a separate group of dolphins was washed from a commercial oceanarium on the Mississippi coast during Katrina. Eight were found with the navy’s help, but the dolphins were not returned until US navy scientists had examined them.

Sheridan is convinced the scientists were keen to ensure the dolphins were not the navy’s, understood to be kept in training ponds in a sound in Louisiana, close to Lake Pontchartrain, whose waters devastated New Orleans.

There are just too many wierd things about this story. Enjoy.

I saw this blog entry last night and I was impressed by the author’s inability to make an argument. In pertinent part the author writes:

I also do it because I find the conservative blogosphere to be one of the most closed-minded, insular, circular pits of denial I’ve ever encountered. The ringleader of the group has been referring to those of us who are anti-war as traitors going on three years at this point. The Time Magazine Blog of the Year comes up with something to fact-check and blast into oblivion oh, every time you hit refresh. Unrepentant racists have become the main issue drivers for the conservative blogosphere, and I’m pretty sure I could rattle off a list of a good twenty or thirty people who do nothing but parrot the aforementioned four blogs with no problem. There are the token “Democrats” to pretend there’s some diversity of thought, the requisite propoganda minister, and the overwhelming desire to create what they think is a counterpart to the so-called “MSM”, a completely shut-off network of conservative news and opinion out of which comes nothing that isn’t designed to push an ideological agenda.

He starts with an interesting claim. “I find the conservative blogosphere to be one of the most closed-minded, insular, circular pits of denial I’ve ever encountered.” But he never supports the claim. Instead of backing up his claims, he merely asserts. For example, he writes, “The ringleader of the group has been referring to those of us who are anti-war as traitors going on three years at this point.” I was interested when I saw this assertion because I assumed he would hyperlink to a particularly egregious example with the Ringleader (Glenn Reynolds) calling people traitors, or at least something close. But he merely asserts that Reynolds calls anti-war people traitors. Couldn