Bob Hayes Online

Will it be aliens? Gamma-ray bursts? Or just simple ecocide? You don’t need to choose - there’s a whole menu of doom out there.

(H/T Evangelical Outpost.)

Well, he says it nicer.

Not unrelated.

(H/T Evangelical Outpost.)

This blog site has the coolest design I have ever seen. I yearn for it. I want to kill its owner and steal it. No, more than that - I want to kidnap its owner, assimilate their living brain into my own to appropriate all their stylish glory, and then steal it.

OK, just kidding about the creepy snuff part. But it is a darn fine design.

Via ResurrectionSong, whose blogroll I was trawling when I spotted it.

…now I’m my own great-to-the-300th-generation grandfather.

She was an awfully cute tribal herder girl, though.

I’m not much of a green, but even I can see how this enormous floating plastic dump is problematic. I don’t see why they say we can’t do anything about it, though. 3.5 million tons of plastic has an enormous market value, and the nature of the currents are such that more feedstock comes in every day. It must be worth someone’s time to set up a retrieval and recycling operation.

(H/T You Guessed It)

And other cool natural phenomena.

James Q. Wilson writes trenchantly on the relationship between American Christians (mainly conservative Christians) and Jews - specifically, on the fact that while most evangelical and fundamentalist Christians report positive feelings about both Jews and Israel, most Jews tend to have negative feelings about Christian evangelists and fundamentalists.

Wilson opines that much of the Christian attraction is a result of dispensationalism. I am not so sure of that; as Evangelical Outpost correctly notes, non-dispensationalist Christians have the same positive feelings. I think it is more likely that American Christians view the Jews as a people in much the same light that the Romans viewed the Greeks - we came from them, they are our cultural fathers, we owe them reverence. It is not unnatural for Christians to feel that way; the historical and theological legacies are quite clear. It’s also pretty understandable that the affection is not returned; nobody likes to think of themselves as being supplanted, and while Jews might not think of themselves as supplanted, Christians have a tacit assumption that this is in fact the case. And demographically, of course, it’s pretty obvious. Judaism at the time of the founding of Christianity was a major world religion; something like 10% of the population of the Roman Empire was Jewish, and Jews thrived elsewhere as well.

This is quite the Rube Goldberg contraption - rendered lovingly in HTML. Mouse over the cup to get things rolling.

(Via Evangelical Outpost.)

Not for the operating system itself. No, no, no.

For opening the box it comes in.

Some things simply defy parody.

The Agitator opines: Bill is sabotaging Hillary on purpose.

Personally I can’t believe that a champion of women’s rights like Bill would ever crap on a woman’s chance for success just to comfort his own ego.

Unless he wanted to, of course.