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I think I’m just going to post them as I find them from now on.  How do you feel about that?

My faith in Christ is only a few years old and doesn’t limit my ability to reason in the least. [Source]

Special thanks to Comfort Food reader Mike & Lizette’s Travels & Thoughts!

I’ve actually been to this church. It was boring.

Cheesiness aside, what’s going on here? Do you use donar to locate enemy vessels by sending out dound waves?

Perhaps you remember Brannon Howse, the jerkwad who sparked a firestorm of people sending me photos of themselves reading jeffthefish.com.

Not that he ever stopped, but he’s at it again! Check out Happy Jihad’s coverage of Brannon’s attempts to unite Christians in boycotting that stronghold of Satan, Barnes and Nobel.

So far $1700 has been sent to the women’s organization in Basra.  This is great news! We really are helping to change the lives of suffering people.  This is something that Americans  need to do more often.

Of course, the women are still currently in danger and there is always more to be done, so if you haven’t donated yet, you can send donations via PayPal to tips@jezebel.com.

If you don’t know what I’m talking about, go here.

Well, indirectly, at least.

From the article:

GrammarBlog approaches language oddities and mishaps with a lighthearted, irreverent tone. Gez Daring, Daniel Gray and Tom Knowles started the blog as a continuation of the linguistic gibes they shared during their time at University of Newcastle upon Tyne, in England. “The highlight of this period was the discovery of a takeaway menu with no less than 57 separate mistakes in spelling, grammar, punctuation or typography. This document is our Dead Sea Scroll and the basis for our current endeavours,” Mr. Daring writes in an email.

Many posts include photographs of errors spotted in everything from literature to signage, to which the bloggers respond with often snarky corrections. One photo shows a sign that says “No Shirts, No Pets, No Shoes No Service.” The blogger comments: “I don’t know where to begin. This could mean that shirts, pets, shoes and service are all forbidden on the premises. Or perhaps pets are mandatory. Who wears more than one shirt anyway?” Readers contribute their own photos of spelling errors and mistakes in grammar.

Yup, I took that photo and posted it here and submitted it to GrammarBlog. Hooray for us!

Other famous times include my fifteen seconds of fame on CNN’s The Paula Zahn Show.

My boss just walked up to me and said, “Awwww, look at little Ken Jr! Are you gonna cry?”

(Ken is my dad who was killed in a car crash last week.)

Apparently there’s some controversy in Seattle about “bikini baristas” showing too much skin, I guess including occasionally going topless. Naturally, the old people are going nuts.  So here’s a stupid quote from an old person:

“It’s not offensive to me; it’s offensive to children,” said council member Jim Rackley.

OK, Jim?  What exactly do you think breasts are for?

In case you haven’t heard about this, here’s a summary: A seventeen year old Iraqi girl, Rand Hussein, is seen talking to a British soldier.  Their friendship never gets beyond casual, but the girl confides to a friend that she has a crush on him. Four months later, her father, Abdel-Qader Ali, finds out and takes the only logical step:  he beats / stomps / stabs her to death, with the help of his sons. Meanwhile, the girl’s mother, Lila Hussein, fears for her life and gets the courage to escape from her waste-of-genetic-material husband.  While hiding out from him she receives multiple death threats.  Finally, she is able to plan an escape from Iraq altogether with the help of a group campaigning for women’s rights.  On the day she was to be smuggled into Jordan, she was murdered in the street.

I am not violent at all.  I don’t wish harm to anyone.  But I am being honest when I say that I would personally take joy out of murdering Abdel-Qader Ali. I do hope that this woman’s death is a sort of shot-heard-round-the-world and people open their eyes to these tragedies.  It has certainly opened my eyes.  But I know that this is not the first time this has happened.

This time, however, there is a way to help.  Thanks to Rebecca Watson of SkepChick and The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe, and Moe of Jezebel, there is a way to donate money to the group that helped Lila plan her escape.  Since the names of the people in the actual organization have to be kept confidential, for obvious reasons, the money will go through Jezebel and will then be wired to a journalist contact in Basra, who will personally hand the money to the organization.

You can send donations of any amount via PayPal to tips@jezebel.com.  Thanks for listening.

I went to jesus-is-savior.com and saw an article by that title. I wanted to find out what proof this nutcase thought he had. Here’s as much as I was able to read:

“Recently, a thought captivated my mind that proves that the theory of evolution is a big hoax.”

I should have stopped right there. But I was too curious. I had to know what this thought was.

“The thought is simple and yet profound … why is there no recorded history before approximately 4,000 B.C.? The answer is obvious … there was no history!”

I should have gone with my initial hunch. I’m getting too old for this.

It’s true, ladies. Last night, Jennifer, Ed, Bryan, and I went to see PZ Myers speak at the Pacific Science Center, where I quickly outbearded him.

Here’s the thing: It was a lot of fun. The talk was really entertaining. Anyone should know that. He warmed up the crowd by showing the argument from peanut butter video, which was even more hilarious when watched in a group setting. He talked about the general inanity of the correspondence he gets from Creationists, and what science writers can do to communicate science to as wide an audience as possible.

And then a bunch of attendees went to a noisy pub. Ed and I drank beer and talked about woo and realized that we couldn’t hear anything that anyone else was saying, so we left. On my way out I had the following exchange with PZ, reproduced here as a memorial to the ages:

Jason: This was not a very good Bible study.
PZ: Actually it was the best kind!
Jason: OK, but you ruined my joke.

And that’s what kind of people they are.