Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New 'Intelligent Falling' Theory

KANSAS CITY, KS—As the debate over the teaching of evolution in public schools continues, a new controversy over the science curriculum arose Monday in this embattled Midwestern state. Scientists from the Evangelical Center For Faith-Based Reasoning are now asserting that the long-held "theory of gravity" is flawed, and they have responded to it with a new theory of Intelligent Falling. Link

And it is upon us

And I stand on the back step of my house in my new fleece-lined robe. Looking out into the dark of my back yard. My long neglected back yard. Unloved this summer, but now the rains are back. It's wet, the trees dripping, the slap slap slap of drops telling the leaves to give up their hold.

My barbecue is covered and in the winter place of barbecues. Newly raked of its first fall dropping, the yard, in the dark, looks better than it has in months.

I watch an airplane over the sound on the Harbor Visual cruising north, then moving east, lights piercing the moist thick air; then it disappears, and I can just hear as it makes its way over the sights of Seattle in a wet fall approach to SeaTac.

I miss summer already. It feels like a love that didn't work out. I think of it, and I want it back, and I know it's moved on to someone else. It will be a long time 'til it comes to me again. Bitch. But I'll beg her to come back.

>ouch< mmm iccckkk scareycrap ick

The apparent suicide of a woman found hanging from a tree went unreported for hours because passers-by thought the body was a Halloween decoration, authorities said.

The 42-year-old woman used rope to hang herself across the street from some homes on a moderately busy road late Tuesday or early Wednesday, state police said.

The body, suspended about 15 feet above the ground, could be easily seen from passing vehicles.

State police spokesman Cpl. Jeff Oldham and neighbors said people noticed the body at breakfast time Wednesday but dismissed it as a holiday prank. Authorities were called to the scene more than three hours later.

"They thought it was a Halloween decoration," Fay Glanden, wife of Mayor William Glanden, told The (Wilmington) News Journal.

"It looked like something somebody would have rigged up," she said.

I like goats the moats

The tree climbing goats of morocco.
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I love parlor tricks

1. Grab a calculator
2. Key in the first three digits of your phone number (not the area code)
3. Multiply by 80
4. Add 1
5. Multiply by 250
6. Add the last 4 digits of your phone number
7. Add the last 4 digits of your phone number again
8. Subtract 250
9. Divide number by 2

Dig that.

Smart posting

This is why I love Craigslist. I see items like this all the time, and just fall in love all over again.

"seeking classy, drama free, intellagent woman -"

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No Time for a Victory Lap

I follow some of the political blogs specifically, and the disastrous politics of our country generally, fairly closely. I am transparent here at Period of Useful Consiousness in my disgust for the current administration. So it is with empathy that I understand the current glee expressed by many about the troubles of the Bush administration, and the probable felony indictments about to be handed down to a number of the top officers. It's ugly fun to finally see these guys going at it like 20 rats in a ten rat cage.

It is, however, very bad news. Everyone needs to start looking at this as Bad News. This is the darkest taint to what should be - in the corniest of flag-waving semiotics - a shining beacon of democracy and righteousness for the world. We may not have liked the emplacement of this president, but one must rise above it and wish him well. Wish him far better than we think him capable of.

Sadly, worse than my darkest imaginings of this fraternity has come true. And I say this before the indictments are even handed down.

But the joy, the sheer giddy pleasure, that many of the hardcore liberal advocates are taking in the self-immolation of the administration is misplaced. Where's the decorum? Where's the concern for the country, our people, our standing in the world? I know it's there, but it's being shown as this ecstatic, sophomoric display of 'Burn you bastards! My champagne is on ice!'

I've been guilty of it - it's hard not to partake. In the last few weeks it's like in a horror movie when you've been telling everyone, "Don't you see?! They're all aliens! They're going to eat your children!" But no one sees. And they keep driving around with Bush/Cheney stickers proudly displayed. And then suddenly... the event happens that unmasks the monsters for what they are. It's only human to pump your fist in triumph.

But glee isn't the right tone right now. Okay, maybe a little. But we all need to be really concerned about getting the train back on the tracks. Because it's getting pretty bogged down out in the prairie right now. And it's a long push to get it back.

Unspeakable Truths

It's one of those things that just about everyone knows, deep down inside. You want to scream it out sometimes, but for fear of condemnation. But I have to say it out loud, to be true to myself, and to my fellows.

Unsalted peanut butter sucks.

There. I said it.