Now hunter can be a funny guy, but even he recognises that this sort of thing goes so far beyond the bounds that it can't be touched. It's a real "Excuse me..!! {long pause of silent shock}" moment

Some things defy all attempts at satire. It is not that it is difficult to satirize them, but that they are immune. Like black holes, they pull all humor near them to a certain event horizon and then beyond, where it is torn to shreds, never to be seen again.

I share his stupefaction. They said that satire was dead when kissinger got the Nobel prize for peace, but this is something that, if not defying reality to the same extent, is at least an event of similar type. How the NYT presses could print such..such... this and not spontaneously combust like a computer in a 60s spy thriller asked "why?", I simply cannot fathom.

keep to the Fen Causeway

I've got nothing. It's time for bed.

you are the media you consume.

We've been attacking some salmon, and the cheese board. And discussing tube amplifiers with the designer of one, who intends to call it the Kierkegaard since its functioning depends very much upon faith.

You can't be me, I'm taken

Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine - Patti Smith

OK, voting for Siberian Light is understandable too.

In the UK category, vote Nosemonkey.

"Mémoire sur le danger des inhumations précipitées & sur la nécessité d'un réglement pour mettre les citoyens à l'abri du malheur d'être enterrés vivans : dans lequel on rapporte des observations de personnes enterrées & ouvertes vivantes" par M. Pineau, a Paris, 1776.

Nothing as cool as the medieval gynecology texts, but still ...

Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

Guardian - John Vidal - Severn barrage: Row breaks out over UK's biggest renewables project

Government consultants have been accused of miscalculating the costs of a project to generate vast amounts of green electricity in the Severn estuary, promoting a 10 mile-long tidal barrier strongly backed by ministers in preference to a scheme that engineers and environmentalists say is far less damaging.

Atheist bus campaign spreads the word of no God nationwide | World news | guardian.co.uk

Anyone who has spent a chilly half-hour waiting for a double-decker may already have doubted the existence of a deity. But for those who need further proof, a nationwide advertising campaign aimed at persuading more people to "come out" as atheists was launched today with the backing of some of Britain's most famous non-believers.

The principal slogan - "There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life" - can already be seen on four London bus routes, and now 200 bendy buses in London and 600 across the country are to carry the advert after a fundraising drive raised more than £140,000, exceeding the original target of £5,500.

The money will also pay for 1,000 advertisements on London Underground from next Monday and on a pair of giant LCD screens opposite Bond Street tube station, in Oxford Street. Organisers unveiled a set of quotes from public figures - including Albert Einstein, Douglas Adams and Katharine Hepburn - who have endorsed atheism, or at least expressed scepticism about a Creator. The words "That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet" are quoted from the poet Emily Dickinson.

I really want to live in a passive solar house.  On the Seine, with Bremen to my left and San Francisco to my right, the Maldives across the river and the Blackfeet Rez bordering Glacier National Park as my back yard.  Easy to please, i guess.

congrats, J! (and J)

Skennah Kowa