While I'm announcing a few carnivals, I'll remind all of you readers in West Central Minnesota that there will be a Drinking Liberally tonight at 6:00, in Old #1 on Atlantic Avenue in Morris.
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Remember how Shane Morris posted a photo that he claimed showed that the "wormy corn" sign had been taken down when in fact the sign was visible in his photo?
A representative from Answers in Genesis will be speaking here in Morris, Minnesota! And none of the scheduled talks conflict with any of my classes!
When I was looking in the Philip Morris Documents Archive for information on their astroturf operations, I noticed some familiar names:
It's that time when universities get on their knees and beg the state for continuing support (hey, isn't that all the time?), and my colleague Pete Wyckoff gave some testimony at the Minnesota capitol the other day.
Open thread...okay, well, over at my blog, I snark about a recent flap in which right-wing Christians are blowing a gasket because a new Christian film has been hit with the dreaded ... gasp!... PG rating!
From the "Apropos of Nothing" file:
The Seed Magazine sidebar just caught my eye, and in particular a link entitled, Why a Large Hadron Collider? I can't begin to describe the mental images that were thus evoked, which ended abruptly when I realized that my brain had somehow transposed the "d" and the "r" in "Hadron."
Then I saw the next link: How do Brains Filter Data?
I know how mine does, thank you. This somehow brings to mind the old definition of "intellectual": A person who can hear the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.