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Monthly Archives: December 2006

Troposphere, Whatever

Monday, December 11, 2006

JUSTICE SCALIA: Mr. Milkey, I had — my problem is precisely on the impermissible grounds. To be sure, carbon dioxide is a pollutant, and it can be an air pollutant. If we fill this room with carbon dioxide, it could be an air pollutant that endangers health. But I always thought an air pollutant was [...]

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WordCount

Friday, December 8, 2006

WordCountâ„¢ is an artistic experiment in the way we use language. It presents the 86,800 most frequently used English words, ranked in order of commonness. Each word is scaled to reflect its frequency relative to the words that precede and follow it, giving a visual barometer of relevance. [...]

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Idol Worship

Wednesday, December 6, 2006

I swear I had a video of Billy Idol singing White Christmas. Only that video is “no longer available.” Or was it some sort of nightmare? Oh well. Here’s a great song from the Idol, relevant to the season, called Plastic Jesus. He’s still cool, at least sometimes, even if he did not write [...]

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What Would Christ Charge?

Monday, December 4, 2006

“We’ve got Gary and Joseph instead of Mary and Joseph in order to symbolize ACLU support for homosexual marriage, and of course there isn’t a Jesus in the manger,” said Chairman Tony McDonald. “The three Wise Men are Lenin, Marx, and Stalin because the founders of the ACLU were strident supporters of Soviet style Communism. [...]

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