A quick rundown

I said it once; I’ll say it again: clearly, reli­gion is not the real cause of Islamic ter­ror­ism.  Debate me all you want, but I will insist and never be con­vinced that reli­gion is noth­ing more than a cloak donned by hyp­ocrites, liars, and the crim­i­nally insane.

Hope­fully, good news to come in Uganda, as the anti-homosexuality bill that has earned them so much appro­ba­tion may get the same treat­ment it pro­poses for gay people.

The death of a lan­guage always has sad­dened me a lit­tle.  I know it’s inevitable, that it’s part of evo­lu­tion and glob­al­iza­tion and human migra­tion.  I know that Bo wasn’t very use­ful a lan­guage in the mod­ern world, and that homog­e­niza­tion of lan­guage could lead to less con­flict.  Still… there’s some­thing mag­i­cal in that lit­tle lady’s song – a magic that’s now gone.

Oh, Pluto.  First you lose big planet sta­tus, now you’re melt­ing, reform­ing, and turn­ing red?