Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

Time	Event
12:15p	Republican Monsters Been around for a few days, but still funny - here's the list of Republican candidates, compared with their closest equivalent Buffy monster: The GOP Primary Field in Buffy Villains Current Mood: amused Current Music: Doomed: Dark music for tortured souls [SomaFM] (Comment on this)
12:47p	The first Stardancer I posted about this recently - the first attempt at zero-G dance. Here's some footage of that first step. It's brief - since they were in a Vomit Comet, they only had 20-30 seconds of freefall - but the potential for something truly lovely is there. Kathleen McDonagh dancing in Zero-G - accompanied by the music of composer James Raymond. Current Mood: awed Current Music: Doomed: Dark music for tortured souls [SomaFM] (Comment on this)
12:55p	Xtianfuckwitwatch - the number of the Beasts If you thought this was bad, check out Proposition 888: ' On December 18, 2007, Congressman Randy Forbes (R-VA) introduced H. Res. 888, a resolution "Affirming the rich spiritual and religious history of our Nation's founding and subsequent history and expressing support for designation of the first week in May as 'American Religious History Week' for the appreciation of and education on America's history of religious faith." This resolution, which purports to promote "education on America's history of religious faith," is packed with the same American history lies found on the Christian nationalist websites, and in the books of pseudo-historians like David Barton. It lists a total of seventy-five "Whereas's," leading up to four resolves, the third of which is particularly disturbing -- that the U.S. House of Representatives "rejects, in the strongest possible terms, any effort to remove, obscure, or purposely omit such history from our Nation's public buildings and educational resources," a travesty of the highest magnitude, considering that most of the "history" this resolve aims to promote in our public buildings and schools IS NOT REAL! ' I'm sure it's pure coincidence that 888 is the number given to Jesus in the Qabbala... Thanks to Wyldraven for the tip. Also from him, do check out the excellent Elizabeth Moon (SF writer, USMC veteran) on how swearing to uphold the Constitution and being a religious zealot are incompatible. Current Mood: snide Current Music: Doomed: Dark music for tortured souls [SomaFM] (Comment on this)

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