Religion: May 2011 Archives

May 21, 2011

Science Department

Disappointed!

What a friggin' waste of my time! It's now 6:22 pm local time and still no Rapture. It was supposed to start at 6:00 pm and I was all ready for it. I had my camera with a basic theodolite setup, and pointing directly towards a local church. Being in a typical American city, there are churches every few blocks, of course, so I was ready to slew the camera towards at least one more church as well.

After all, there must be at least some of the pastors and priests or nuns who would get the final calling.

By getting a few directional and angle fixes, plus knowing the distances to the churches, I should have been able to calculate the precise direction of Heaven. At just before 6:04 local time I thought I saw something and took my first fix.

Rapture Photo_003.JPG
It turned out to be nothing but a bird landing in that tree on the left.

Talk about crappy luck. I had the equipment and procedure all setup and ready for a major discovery and nothing happens but a bird landing on a tree.

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Update at 9:11 pm

May 20, 2011

Religion Department

See Ya

So I hear that someone somewhere is saying the rapture will happen tomorrow. Of course, for my Jewish and Muslim readers this is no big deal, since everyone knows that only Christians are eligible for rapture. Actually, as my co-blogger Ken pointed out to me the other day, only the really good Christians will be raptured. The rest have to stay here to slug it out with the antichrist like everyone else.

As for readers of this blog, I expect to see all of you still here come Sunday morning.

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Hit & Run
Cataloguing every inch of our daily slide down the slippery slope towards a more totalitarian state.
Virgina Postrel
Author, columnist, and famous kidney doner.
The Agitator
Radley Balko, libertarian at large.
Nobody's Business
A blog about negative liberty.
Ravings of a Feral Genius
The one, the only, Jennifer.
Honest Courtesan
Notes from a retired call girl.

Bloggy Goodness

Duly Noted
Yet another Lindsay Beyerstein blog.
InstaPundit
Law professor, author, columnist, music engineer, the founding father of the blogosphere.
StrategyPage
News and commentary on all things military.
Last One Speaks
A complicated woman with simple tastes.
Ethics Alarms
Jack Marshall at large.

War on Drugs

StoptheDrugWar.org
Taking the drug war debate to the blogosphere
DrugWar Rant
More reasons every week for hating the War on Drugs.
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The road to hell is paved with good intentions and patrolled by Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
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The Drug Policy Alliance blog.
Vigil for Lost Promise
A counterweight to the DEA's exploitive site.

Blawgs

a Public Defender
Rants, explanations, and complaints from a public defender.
Simple Justice
Rants, explanations, and complaints from a private lawyer.
Defending People
The art and science of criminal defense trial lawyering
Probable Cause
The legal blog with the really low standard of review.
Unwashed Advocate
Former Military Underdog
Indefensible
David Feige, creator of Raising the Bar and former public defender.
Koehler Law Blog
Don't be fooled by how pretty it is
Not Guilty
A lawyer in search of a clue.
Norm Pattis
Norm will fight for you!
Marc Randazza
The Legal Satyricon: First Amendment Law
Gamso - For the Defense
An Ohio criminal defense lawyer
Criminal Defense
It's like a criminal defense blog, but from Florida
ECILCrime
East Central Illinois criminal defense.
Underdog Blog
Criminal defense, politics, and God only knows what else.
CrimLaw
A big, goofy, ballcap-wearing prosecutor who even likes dogs. [review]
Blonde Justice
Funny stories about criminal defense.
Crime & Federalism
Legal analysis and bitching. [review]
Seeking Justice
Tom McKenna, Virginia prosecutor on a mission from God.
The Volokh Conspiracy
Smart legal experts.
D.A. Confidential
Making prosecutors seem just like normal lawyers
Crime and Consequences Blog
Because we're just not punishing people enough
Graham Lawyer Blog
Interesting writing about the law.
New York Personal Injury Law Blog
Better than you'd think from the SEO-friendly name
West Virginia Criminal Law Blog
Also better than you'd think from the SEO-friendly name
South Carolina Criminal Defense Blog
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Agony Unleashed in EVE Online.

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Marginal Revolution
Everything happens in the margins
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Very cool modern street photography.
Digital Photography Review
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Ken Rockwell
Strong opinions about photography.
Dan Heller
Photographs and the business of photography.
Bert P. Krages II
Photography and the law.

Chicagoland

Leslie's Omnibus
I have no idea what this blog is about.
Marathon Pundit
John Ruberry runs, drives, and blogs.

Media

Eric Zorn
Possibly the Chicago Tribune's first blogger.
Miss Manners
A marvelous writer and deeper than you think.
Roger Ebert's Journal
A great writer and a useful film critic.

Resources

WolframAlpha
Data + Computation = Fun Knowledge.
Institute for Justice
A merry band of libertarian litigators.
EFF: Bloggers
The Electronic Frontier Foundation's page for bloggers.
CIA World Factbook
A brief summary about every nation.
Wikipedia
The mostly-useful encyclopedia of everything.
Current Impact Risks
It has to happen some day.

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