Television - but not as you know it.

There is something very addictive about this.

Is Kucinich the invisible man?

Nearly 24 hours later and the main stream media websites still have not reported Dennis Kucinich's reading of the Articles Of Impeachment against G W Bush.

What is wrong with the Main Stream Media?

It's now about an hour since Dennis Kucinich finished reading his 35 Articles of Impeachment against George W Bush, and none, I repeat, none of the mainstream media is reporting it. Shame on you all. Something is very wrong in this country.






Reuters seem to be the only service carrying any mention of it.

Before there was Spinal Tap, there was Bad News.....

Classic footage from The Tube, 1983. No miming here whatsoever...

Space 1999

Quite probably the greatest TV theme tune ever....

Are you looking for Jesus?

This site isn't going to help much. Happy Easter.

Waterboarding, fun for all

The Whitehouse and Bush continue to maintain that waterboarding (or simulated drowning) is not torture and is instead an "enhanced technique" of interrogation. In the same vein as those brave or foolhardy individuals who have voluntarily submitted to being tasered to show that it's safe (disregard the growing number of fatalities), I respectively suggest that Mr President tries out a little waterboarding himself and reports back to We The People post haste.

There really is no learning going on.

The US has announced an agreement with Poland to site interceptor missiles on their soil. The missiles are part of the tragically flawed Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system. The system is flawed because it doesn't really have an enemy to protect the US from but also that it could easily be overwhelmed if currently friendly countries who do have the capability were to turn enemy. Anyway, that's not really the point of this post, which is actually to point out that history is repeating itself. After the announcement, all the news and political pundits anxiously theorized as to Russia's likely response. Some scenarios are not hard to imagine. In 1961 the US installed 15 Jupiter missiles in Izmir, Turkey, aimed at western Soviet cities, including Moscow. The Soviet response in 1962 was to install missiles in Cuba. This became the infamous "Cuban Missile Crisis" which history has unfairly portrayed as all the Russians doing. So, 47 years later, here we are again. Cuba is probably not likely to play host again, but Venezuela anyone? There really is no learning going on.

James Dyson: A genius or a bee?

Why is James Dyson proudly advertising that it took over 5000 prototypes to get the design of his vacuum cleaners right? One of the greatest geniuses of the modern era, Nikola Tesla once said of Thomas Edison "If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor."

NAS votes for common sense

It's sad that the National Academy of Sciences had to devote valuable resources in order to produce a comprehensive position paper explaining science and evolution, and debunking creationism, but it's welcome. Now can we move on? Please.

Mr Three Percent

The number of points that Bill Clinton got in the 1992 Iowa Caucus. What does it all mean?

Vote for common sense

I'll blurt this right out - I can't vote for anyone who doesn't believe in evolution. Phew.

Creationists tend to hang on the word "Theory" as if it means "Guess" - Darwins' Guess At What's Going On - and saying things like "Well, the jury is still out on Evolution, and it is only a theory after all". They don't seem to consider the fact that science is generally split into Laws and Theories. A Law is something proven beyond reasonable doubt - if you do this, the result will be this. Many Laws started out as Theories. The Theory of Evolution is unlikely to become a Law because there are too many variables - if you do this, the result, based on observation, evidence and testing will likely be this, although it's not certain. Meanwhile, as with Laws, we'll continue observing, tracing evidence and testing, and refining the theory as we go. Or we could sit back and say it must all have been created a Designer.

Now, back to the opening statement. I don't know that I could trust the running of a country to someone who rejects out of hand scientific evidence, observation and testing in favor of mythology, even if that candidate pledges not to interfere with science education. It amounts to impaired judgement to me.

In a test, which one of the following would make you pause and question the candidates judgement?

I believe....

• Santa Claus
• The Earth is flat
• The Sun orbits the Earth
• Mbombo vomited the sun. moon and stars
• A god named Pangu, born inside the egg, broke it into two halves: The upper half became the sky, the lower half became the earth.
• Gaia brought forth Ouranos, the starry sky, her equal, to cover her, the hills, and the fruitless deep of the Sea, Pontus, "without sweet union of love," out of her own self.
• An omnipotent being created the heavens and earth in 6 days
• Zeus is king of the gods and god of the sky and thunder
• "Conjecture about [the origin, etc., of] the world is an unconjecturable that is not to be conjectured about, that would bring madness & vexation to anyone who conjectured about it."
• All animals and humans have a divine element in them that is covered by the ignorance and illusions of material or profane existence
• Global Warming is caused by the declining number of pirates.
• Natural selection is a process that causes heritable traits that are helpful for survival and reproduction to become more common, and harmful traits to become more rare. This occurs because organisms with advantageous traits pass on more copies of these heritable traits to the next generation.
• Natural selection is a process that causes heritable traits that are helpful for survival and reproduction to become more common, and harmful traits to become more rare. This occurs because organisms with advantageous traits pass on more copies of these heritable traits to the next generation, with the exception of humans because God created us in His image, and therefore we're exempt.

All but two are fairy tales. Just vote for common sense, not myths and superstition.