I blogged. A lot. That is all.
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Awesome
Posted on December 31, 2011 by Michael Hawkins
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Thought of the day
Posted on December 30, 2011 by Michael Hawkins
I normally stay away from dumb entertainment news, but this is one of those things that actually gives me pleasure: Katy Perry and Russell Brand are divorcing. I don’t like to find pleasure in the misery of others, but I feel that Brand’s shitty, annoying comedy and awful, unbearable accent justify my glee, at least [...]
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Horrible ‘human’ Lawrence Stowe indicted
Posted on December 29, 2011 by Michael Hawkins
I’ve been thinking about it. When I first wrote about scam-artist Lawrence Stowe, I called him “a horrible human being”. I now regret that. Allowing him the title of “human” is far too generous. Far, far too generous. Just look at what he did: Stowe told [CBS's "60 Minutes"] MS patient that he can reverse [...]
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Awesome videos
Posted on December 28, 2011 by Michael Hawkins
I don’t really have any good context for posting these three videos other than that I find them neat and it’s my blog. So there. First up is a 1000fps video of a slinky being dropped: I love this next one. A Montana man was caught with about enough weed on him to roll a [...]
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Thought of the day
Posted on December 28, 2011 by Michael Hawkins
It amazes me how willingly conservatives will admit that racism clearly still exists all around us, yet when it comes to pointing out or acknowledging any actual examples they suddenly fall strangely silent.
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The religious fighting of Nigeria
Posted on December 28, 2011 by Michael Hawkins
As I have pointed out a number of times here, severe violence in Nigeria has long been based in or exacerbated by religion. In many cases we see Islamic sects bombing Christian sects, causing eye-for-an-eye retaliation. The motivation is sheer religious fervor, belief that one’s faith is more important than others’ lives. In other cases [...]
Filed under: News, Religions | Tagged: Boko Haram, Christian Association of Nigeria, Christianity, Islam, Nigeria, Religious Violence | 10 Comments »
The harm of NCCAM
Posted on December 28, 2011 by Michael Hawkins
The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, or NCCAM, has been causing harm in one form or another for a dozen years now. We have Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) to thank for that because he was the one who inserted a few paragraphs in a budget bill back in the 90′s which created this [...]
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The data so far
Posted on December 27, 2011 by Michael Hawkins
via xkcd.
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