Rainy Wednesday
Dec. 21st, 2005 10:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annathepiperHAH. I love the Onion. I love it so. Today's reason for my Onion love: U.S. Troops Draw Up Own Exit Strategy.
And on a less frivolous note, I scarfed the link for the PDF file of the decision in the Intelligent Design case in Dover off of Neil Gaiman's blog. He highly encourages the read, so I'll pass the good word. Be warned that it's long, but here's what Neil has to say about it:
The "why this is not an activist decision by an activist judge" bit on page 137 is terrific, although you're best off getting there the hard way, starting at page 1, including slogging through the appalling behaviour of the people on the School Board who started it, who, despite feeling it was important to expell Darwin (and Darwin's finches) and get the Old Testament God back in the classroom, had somehow managed to fail to realise that any of that stuff in the Bible about bearing false witness applied to them.
In other news, I got in to work this morning to discover that my badge is broken. WTF? This makes the second thing I've been carrying around in my messenger bag that's up and died. I'll have to go have them look at it and try to figure out what's wrong with it in a bit.
Wednesday morning miles: 1.6
Miles out of Hobbiton: 554.8
Miles out of Rivendell: 96.8
Miles to Lothlórien: 367.2
And on a less frivolous note, I scarfed the link for the PDF file of the decision in the Intelligent Design case in Dover off of Neil Gaiman's blog. He highly encourages the read, so I'll pass the good word. Be warned that it's long, but here's what Neil has to say about it:
The "why this is not an activist decision by an activist judge" bit on page 137 is terrific, although you're best off getting there the hard way, starting at page 1, including slogging through the appalling behaviour of the people on the School Board who started it, who, despite feeling it was important to expell Darwin (and Darwin's finches) and get the Old Testament God back in the classroom, had somehow managed to fail to realise that any of that stuff in the Bible about bearing false witness applied to them.
In other news, I got in to work this morning to discover that my badge is broken. WTF? This makes the second thing I've been carrying around in my messenger bag that's up and died. I'll have to go have them look at it and try to figure out what's wrong with it in a bit.
Wednesday morning miles: 1.6
Miles out of Hobbiton: 554.8
Miles out of Rivendell: 96.8
Miles to Lothlórien: 367.2