Faith-based Hate Mail
Sir David Attenborough
They always mean beautiful things like hummingbirds. I always reply by saying that I think of a little child in east Africa with a worm burrowing through his eyeball. The worm cannot live in any other way, except by burrowing through eyeballs. I find that hard to reconcile with the notion of a divine and benevolent creator.
[Via Kottke and Jack Shedd Image by ethe.]
Happy Inauguration Day!
Returning to the Oval Office: truth, justice, and the American way.
Today's the day. Our first black President will take the oath of office with his hand on a Bible owned by the man who ended slavery in the U.S.
What a time to take over. W will fly away from the White House in his chopper, leaving his successor with an enormous mess.
Expectations for Obama are crazy. He's not a savior, but he is replacing cynacism with optimism, faith with reason, distrust of science with tech saavy, Machiavellian machinations with transparency. And that's a great way to start.
Celebrations in San Francisco, this wonderful bastion of liberalism, will be in full swing. Some even started a little early, making civic upgrades to usher in our new leader. Well done, team, well done.
Bush Street signs in San Francisco were changed to Obama down the entire length of Bush Street.
[Update: says Gidge "Thank artist Alex Zecca. He stickered the street signs from Presido to Grant... but police have made him remove them."]
* For more on Superman's famous line, see Truth, justice and (fill in the blank).