Had a vengeful God not struck him down for heresy, the famed naturalist Charles Darwin would be turning 204 years old on February 12, and literate folks around the world are marking the occasion by planning celebrations in his honor. I had forgotten that “Darwin Day” was upon us until earlier this evening, when a […]
I have no idea who was originally responsible for this, but a friend shared it with me on Facebook, and I felt compelled to share. But wait, there’s something even funnier… Harold Camping, the religious broadcaster who had Christians all over the world convinced that life as we knew it would end this past Saturday, […]
As I want to spend what’s left of my time here on earth with my family, I decided not to write a new post on today’s rapture. Instead, here’s something I first posted back in October 2004. I’m confused, do we get to keep our clothes when the rapture comes, or not? What about false […]
It’s been requested that I move this bit of craziness up to the front page, from the comments section of a recent thread, where it was left by a reader in Ypsi Township calling himself EOS. He didn’t indicate it in his comment, but the first two paragraphs were lifted verbatim from an Israeli news […]
I want to be settled in a moon hole with my family and growing crops before May 21, 2011, and I will gladly do whatever is necessary to see this happen, assuming it doesn’t involve physical exertion on my part or the learning of “scientist-type skills.” I just wanted to put that out there, in […]
