According to the best accounts which I have been able to obtain, this Chimaera was nearly, if not quite, the ugliest and most poisonous creature, and the strangest and unaccountablest, and the hardest to fight with, and the most difficult to run away from, that ever came out of the earth’s inside. It had a tail like a boa-constrictor; its body was like I do not care what; and it had three separate heads, one of which was a lion’s, the second a goat’s, and the third an abominably great snake’s. And a hot blast of fire came flaming out of each of its three mouths! Being an earthly monster, i doubt whether it had any wings; but, wings or no, it ran like a goat and a lion, and wriggled along like a serpent, and thus contrived to make about as much speed as all the three together.

Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys

It’s a damn ROCKET BIKE

One million yen.

Holy CHRIST. This movie is the goddamn business. Ip Man is a movie about a Wing Chun master during the 1938 Japanese occupation of China. Just watched him beat down 10 guys at once in a very brutal manner.

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Late night! This debate, while less scholarly, was far more entertaining and even-handed than I expected, considering it’s with Al Sharpton. He does get schooled, though.

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On an atheist kick, I guess. This was a most fascinating debate between Christopher Hitchens and Alistair McGrath about all things religious and moral. For once it’s not a network news commentator asking Hitchens how can he have the nerve to not believe in god, but rather an intelligent former atheist who is now a theologian of note. He still appears to be out of his league, although Hitchens (as usual) comes off as a real jerk.

The full thing is here at fora.tv; it’s quite long since it’s an actual structured academic debate, but worth watching all the way through if you have a spare 90 minutes.

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Christopher Hitchens absolutely hammers a Christian talk-show host. The guy really gets served and can’t accept it. There are little bits missing but the gist is there.

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Have a fully-cooked breakfast and get ready for work in under 5 minutes. If I wore pajamas, I’d take them off like that every time.

Forget Shorter Showers

Forget Shorter Showers

I’ve always felt this way (individual actions are praiseworthy but ultimately ineffective in large issues), but I tend to expand my view to further individual actions like say, handing out pamphlets or picketing. Change only comes at the breaking point, and although you can make sure others are willing to make that change, it’s too much to expect that change to come before it’s good and ready.