I understand the desire to provide an alternative explanation to the creation of the universe. After all, evolution is just a theory. However, I feel morally obligated to offer a word of caution to the Christians who are campaigning so fervently to get Intelligent Design taught in public schools.

In order to push this alternative explanation, you can’t reasonably say that the intelligent designer is the Christian God, but simply that there was an intelligent designer. I for one am totally alright with that. However, much like gay marriage is a gateway for all kinds of “unnatural” unions, so too is ID curriculum. keep reading »

For those of you unfamiliar with Nanowrimo, it’s the November group project for writing a novel. The goal is to just do it, regardless of how good or bad it may be. Just to be able to say, hey, I wrote a novel! And, just doing it means it’s far more likely you’ll actually write something worth editing and refining into something really, really good.

My mother recently bought us a 5-year plan book, which basically consists of pages of oddly sized and positioned text shouting, “You’re an amazing person! Honor your ancestors and celebrate your mother!” amongst other stuff. It also makes for a really strange bathroom read. “You can do it! There’s only one person like you!” keep reading »

I don’t generally bother with stuff like this, but I want to point a few things out. After all, everyone’s got an opinion, and I’m no exception. For those of you lucky enough to have no idea who Carrie is or what all of this is about, she’s the former Miss California 2009 beauty queen. Perez Hilton, a gossip blogger, was a judge for the competition and asked Ms. Prejean what her stance on gay marriage was. It should come as no surprise that Hilton, an openly gay man, would be offended by her answer, which was not at all in support of gay rights. Prejean was later fired for “failing to meet contractual obligations.” keep reading »

Yup, just launched. How exciting. I know, you were all like, “but no! I thought you just accidentally deleted and then restored your Spring 2009 template! My mind just exploded!”

Don’t explode, mind! It’s purple and jazzy now!

In the course of looking at Clown Magic NYC, (the source of rainbow lady below), I discovered this posting, advertising Bingo’s services.

Me: What does “Human Hands-On Clowning” consist of?
Person: as opposed to distant animal seriousness, which is kind of a buzzkill for parties. keep reading »