Great piece from the Kansas City Star about Intelligent Design. The money quote for me.
In his book, Darwin’s Black Box, Michael J. Behe coined a term: “Irreducible Complexity,” which he defined as: “A single system composed of several well-matched, interacting parts that contribute to the basic function, wherein the removal of any one of the [...]

The strangest headline I have read in a long while from the BBC . Sudan man forced to ‘marry’ goat

A great flash animation of how 10 Dimensions work.
Hat tip (Green La Girl)

My childhood officially ended last Monday at approximately 1.30am local time here in New Zealand when having watched Michael Schumacher win his 90th Grand prix, my boyhood hero and idol of the last 13 years announced his retirement from the sport at the end of the year. Every since I’ve had a strange empty feeling [...]

Richard has some interesting pieces on McDowell. But just one quick point.
The PDs are probably the Dail’s laziest party when it comes to building constituency support and they’ve nobody to blame but themselves for being ghettoised in fashionable postcodes.
One I don’t think Longford/Roscomman have ever been called fashionable. No offence to Longford or [...]

You know sometimes I have to wonder do Sinn Fein actually get the irony of their existence. Take this statement More prisons and bigger prisons not the answer — Ó Snodaigh.
Sinn Féin Justice spokesperson Aengus Ó Snodaigh TD said that ‘more prisons and bigger prisons is not the answer’. Suggesting Minister McDowell was posing [...]

On the day the we remember the deaths of thousands in New York. We have to remember their is still stuff to laugh about in life. Like the 80s

And Funky Town

I must confess I did not think that the American Office could work. For me the best part of the original Office was the stuttle touches around the Tim and Dawn story the smiles and the looks and I just did not think that an American drama could get it. But as usual I seem [...]

This really is not funny but it is.
Sorry, we have just knocked wrong house! - By DAVID HURLEY
THE National Roads Authority have admitted “questions need to be answered” after a cottage was mistakenly demolished this week without the knowledge of its owners.
The house, near Annaholty, [...]