Some Things

So anyone else think His Holiness, The Glorified Houseplant Who Would Be Caesar is watching the goings on in Pakistan and drooling all over the notes he’s taking?

Elizabeth over at SitPS brings us the good news/bad news on Genarlow Wilson and the ENDA situation, and Chris gives us the naked truth on Barbie Porn.

Two of my favorite science blogs are in the running for Best Science Blog of 2007. Go vote for BadAstronomy or Pharyngula, if you love your momma, apple pie, beer, and good sex. If you don’t, the terrorists will win.

[ETA - Too late, they did.]

The space shuttle Discovery went up, it came down, it’s safe and sound. Going ’round the earth in circles seems kind of pointless to me, though. I’d much rather we work on a way to zip on over to 55 Cancri f, where a fifth planet has been found around the very sun-like star. It’s in the habitable zone, but about Neptune sized so it’s probably not much like Earth. It’s probably perfect for the Transgendered Purple Octopus Aliens, though. Y’all thought I was kidding about them, didn’t ya’?

The Flyboys are much improved over last year. They’re gonna kick some butt this year. Uncle Kev the sports machine is picking them for the cup. The Eagles, not so much. The Phils dudded. Other than the dreamboats on ice, it’s sucking to be a Philadephia sports fan these days. (I don’t follow basketball, and I despise the Eagles, but I feel for Uncle Kev. He had such high hopes for the birds this year.)

Matt flings some poo at this new classic from perennial nutjob MinTheGap, who tells us that if there is such a thing as Global Warming, it’s just God using the weather to draw our attention to our sin. That guy’s so far out there, he’s half-way to 55 Cancri.

Blake Stacey cracks me up.

Criss Angel exposes a fraud on TV, Rebecca tells us as she recovers from a nasty shiner. Ouch. My own eye hurts from just looking at that picture!

From whence came the art:

::That image of His Holiness, The Glorified Houseplant Who Would Be Caesar is called Morph: George W. Bush and Nero, and was created using Morpher by Flickr user Wm Jas::

Filed under: Astronomy, Biology, Blogs In Our MonkeySphere, Education, Equality, Family, Flyers, Friends, Fundies, Hockey, Peace, Politics, Rants, Religion, Science, Science Links, Sex, Sports , Random goings on

Announcements And General HouseKeeping

If you’ve been paying close attention, you may have noticed a few changes ’round here.

Our time’s been a bit limited due to family stuff, and what time we’ve had available to spend blogging we’ve used in some behind-the-scenes stuff.

First, The Boy’s been helping a personal friend set up her very first blog.

She’s still working on the aesthetics and getting set up for her comfort, but she’s started out with a pretty good best-friend-rant involving a 3000 mile road trip and hot motel sex. (OK, I’m lying about the motel sex just to trick you into going over, but do it anyway.) Please welcome Diana at Themyscira to the blogosphere.

In other blogroll news, because I said so again, why?, Berlzebub’s Inferno, Eat My Fucking Stilettos, Grace Under Fire, Martyne’s Place, Persistent Thursday, and Vrai’s House of Interminable Horror are all recent additions to our MonkeySphere. Check them out, because they wouldn’t be there if they sucked.

Further down that same sidebar, you’ll note we’ve added RSS feeds for The World’s Greatest Astronomer, Dr. Phil Plait (IT’S PRONOUNCED TO RHYME WITH SKATE, IT’S NOT THAT FRAKKIN’ HARD!) over at BadAstronomy, and also for Sports Illustrated’s most improved NHL team, the Boys in Black and Orange, the Philadelphia Flyers. I love hockey, and if you don’t, you suck. Just so y’know.

[ETA - I've also been trying to add the RSS feed for SitPS, but each time I do my blog crashes - too may widgets maybe? - I'll keep working on that, though. Fixed that!]

Moving on, I tweaked a few little things in the right side bar, and added the Creative Commons license. I’m trying to force myself to remember that just because it’s on the web and I like it does not mean it’s mine. I have occasionally maybe perhaps been somewhat loose with my own definition of “fair use”, and I’m trying to get on the wagon. I wouldn’t want my stuff ripped off, so I’m going to try to work with CC images for illustrating my posts, and do the best I can to remember to credit and link. You may have noticed that I’ve been trying to do that lately. You should too.

From whence came the art:

That photograph is called The Maids, by Richard Cawood

Filed under: About, Astronomy, Blogs In Our MonkeySphere, Flyers, Friends, Hockey, Photos, Science, Science Links, Sports, Still Hoping They'll Return

Flyers Will Score A Huge Rebound This Year

Oh, the laughing stock of the NHL will so be the scourge of Hockey this year. Fear and dread of Philadelphia, respect for the city of brotherly shove, it’ll be back in a big way this season, you can bet on that. We’re heading in the right direction now.

I’m throwing away the paper bag already.

From the Flyers website:

(Voorhees, NJ, July 19) – As the summer moves along and the start of training camp grows ever closer, the players that will make up the 2007-08 Flyers’ roster will slowly but surely be trickling back to the training facility.

Filed under: Flyers, Hockey, Sports

The Shame Of It All

I’m a huge Flyers Fan. Even now. But that doesn’t mean I’m not tempted to wear a bag over my head.

C’mon, guys – do SOMETHING.

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Filed under: Flyers, Hockey, Rants, Sports

Bye Bye Bobby…

I know we were just bitching about Bobby Clarke. I know we were extremely unhappy about the personell changes lately. But remember too, that we mentioned we worship at the altar of Bobby. Fighting understandable tears, he stepped down as GM this morning, about a half hour ago.

Also caught in the crossfire, a casualty, collateral damage, was Ken Hitchcock. Hitch didn’t deserve to be fired, it wasn’t his fault, but there it is.

Paul Holmgren, also a former Flyer from way back, will be taking over as GM, and assistant coach (and former head coach of the Philadelphia Phantoms) John Stevens is taking over as coach.

Ed. Mr. Snyder. Sir. Make sure you make room for both of these men somewhere in the organization.

Filed under: Flyers, Hockey, Sports

9 to 1

We love our Flyboys, but damn. Just damn.

Filed under: Flyers, Hockey, Rants, Sports

Important News!

About the Stanley Cup…

Filed under: Flyers, Hockey, Humor, Sports