Archive for March, 2010

What I’ve Noticed

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Religious bastards in Virginia are handing out tracts telling women that the way we dress causes rape.  Those people should be arrested.  Or kicked in the face. I’m always amazed by studies that show how easy it is to manipulate people’s views. Then I start wondering how I can take over the world. Agricultural subsidies need […]

Berry Go Round

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I’m hosting this month’s edition of Berry Go Round, so if you’ve written or read something plant related that you particularly liked, send it my way.  You can use the submission form or email me at enchantressofnumbers AT gmail DOT com.  I’m planning on getting most of the links together in the next week since […]

Mystical religion is particularly bad for stupid people

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From Karen Armstrong’s A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam: Not everybody was capable of philosophical thought, however, so Falsafah was only for an intellectual elite.  It would confuse the masses and lead them into an error that imperiled their eternal salvation.  Hence the importance of the esoteric tradition, which kept […]

Berry Go Round

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The latest edition of Berry Go Round is up at Foothills Fancies.  Sally did a fantastic job of finding terrifically interesting posts (including my post on the fossil Archeopteris, of course).  One of my favorite submissions describes a potential identification for a very puzzling fossil from January’s Berry Go Round host. To show that I […]