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Is it sick of me to say I want

2009-09-14T18:01:21.794+02:00

Is it sick of me to say I want to see a giant, naked, bleeding (and circumcised) Jesus on that cross?

Fall colors here too. Already.

2009-09-14T07:04:01.613+02:00

Fall colors here too. Already. ......... Space: I've become convinced that the only way to cross space is to do it as machines, but that this will prove impossible because only meat-type organisms can self-repair, reproduce, and use low-energy fuels. I would like to HEAR from Others, though. An old idea I had for an SF story had a scientist finding a mathematical Rosetta Stone for translating alien signals from a star 1,000 light years or so away, and what he found was a detailed accounting of the last days of that civilization, transmitted in realtime. He got to witness their end as it happened ... 1,000 years ago. And the really creepy thing was that it was a perfect parallel for what was happening on Earth in the present. (I have a feeling there's a Glenn Beck there too. And a Fox News.) ......... Numerous raccoons on the deck tonight, and my red fox, Pepper. The coon babies are just about big enough that mothers Tinker and HoneyCoon disappear among them, practically their same size now. ......... Just today I said to a sandwich shop girl, overeager to know what kind of cheese I wanted: "Some people are gourmets, and some are hogs. I'm a hog -- surprise me." Yet to this day, there are certain food textures that I hate. It was about 50 times worse when I was a kid: The crunch of celery, the jelly-like seeds of tomatoes, the rubbery surprise of gristle in meat, the chewiness of liver, and -- instant revulsion! -- the little flat wooden spoons you sometimes got with elementary school ice cream. No idea why, but the word "amongst" arouses a similar response. .......... I miss having a dog. But there's not a dog-shaped space in my life at this time. Right now, I'm all about foxes, raccoons and wild turkeys. .......... Some things, people deserve to be hurt for. Whoever designed the "About coComment" link and placed it at the bottom of the comment window (on this blog, possibly on others), where a careless mouse movement causes it to launch that stupid pop-up at least three times every time I try to type a comment, is one such person.

Actually, I went for the food

2009-09-13T03:48:18.678+02:00

Actually, I went for the food and was pleasantly surprised by the brews... Not too unusual finding a micro brewery in Pittsburgh. Afterall, the 'Burgh is the original 'Drinkin' Town with a Football Problem'... Thanks for the favorable (and flavorable) review! http://www.cafepress.com/DrinknTown

Sorry, the correct link is htt

2009-09-11T06:43:43.958+02:00

Sorry, the correct link is http://158.130.17.5/~myl/languagelog/archives/000129.html

I agree that in some instances

2009-09-11T06:17:32.661+02:00

I agree that in some instances, religion is the means for spreading guilt and fear, with the aim to gain control. However, I see no reason to suppose that the social institutions associated with religion are unique, or even particularly significant in this respect. Selfishness, greed, and a penchant for power games are constants in the scheme of human affairs, and any widespread social institution provides another outlet for them. Ditto for generosity and the milk of human kindness. When you feel the urge to hold a particular system of beliefs responsible for ordinary human rottenness - or give it the credit for ordinary human kindness - just keep in mind the difference between correlation and causation. Also, the idea that a particular linguistic set has non-trivial effects on a person's world view is hotly debated even within the field of linguistics - see http://158.130.17.5/~myl/languagelog/archives/003055.html and the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.

since now I'm (more or less) i

2009-09-11T02:12:35.807+02:00

since now I'm (more or less) in the neighborhood. On a related note, I've been to a church converted into a bookstore...

I was raised in a home where n

2009-09-10T05:56:42.514+02:00

I was raised in a home where nothing was said when someone sneezed, I remember how peculiar I found the notion that most people actually did and how surprising it was to me that their deity had anything to do with it, I have seen many people get offended when I DON'T say anything when they sneeze, and I find the whole custom an idiotic mental tic that just needs to stop.

It's a microbrew, so you prett

2009-09-10T01:52:05.435+02:00

It's a microbrew, so you pretty much know what you are going to get. I don't remember it standing out. As a beer hound, who tries to hit every microbrew in whatever town I visit, the only thing I remember about Church Brew Works was the building. Of course, I only went there once and it was a while back.

I was visiting some friends in

2009-09-10T01:50:31.853+02:00

I was visiting some friends in Pittsburgh a year ago - we had great evening at the "Church". Excellent local brew and food. Recommended.

For anyone in the Dallas/Fort

2009-09-09T21:21:18.732+02:00

For anyone in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, you also might like the North Texas Church of Freethought. We like beer too.

I doubt that any public school

2009-09-09T20:30:26.974+02:00

I doubt that any public school is "requiring" students to participate in Muslim prayers. And learning about tolerance for homosexuality -- or Islam -- is nowhere near the same thing as being indoctrinated in the practice of either. I promise you, nobody is teaching your kids to join the Church of Homosexuality.

Eh. People are funny about the

2009-09-09T15:21:13.198+02:00

Eh. People are funny about their religion. I still like the other idea suggested here -- baptize them one week, take them for Muslim indoctrination the next, force them to learn Tibetan chanting the week after. Set up a field trip to the Creation Museum this month, but then run them down to Alabama for a hooded prayer meeting with the KKK the next. And ... Obama's speech was not "political." Except in the sense that complete idiots made it so.

What's the big deal? Sixteen i

2009-09-09T06:36:47.804+02:00

What's the big deal? Sixteen is old enough to have sex and get an abortion without parental consent, but people are freaking out cause a kid was voluntarily baptized? If the argument is about misuse of school funds and property, ok. But getting pissed cause a kid was baptized without consent? I wonder if these kids get consent for sex, beer, and a little toke now and then lol. ;) Now, me personally, I wouldn't want my kid baptized by the school OR listening to a political speech without my permission. Just sayin'...

That would be "dancing in the

2009-09-09T00:18:35.395+02:00

That would be "dancing in the woods sans knickers."

I would be furious! Or how ab

2009-09-08T22:13:55.495+02:00

I would be furious! Or how about attending a witches ceremony...not sure what they're called. Just outrageous.

Yes, but what is the rationale

2009-09-08T17:29:36.596+02:00

Yes, but what is the rationale for wishing someone good health after a sneeze? What is unhealthy about sneezing? And to whom, exactly, is this good health wish aimed towards? Who grants the wish? (And, if you contend that there is no wish involved, then how does telling someone to "be healthy" after a sneeze follow? It's a literal non sequitur. It "does not follow".) I don't know, man. I just ignore it. :) You may be sane, but I think your reasons for wishing someone good health after a sneeze are probably irrational and unreasonable, if you really examine them closely. Not "bad", or evil or anything, or even insane - just unneeded and unnecessary. Silly. More of a "social momentum" sort of thing, I suppose.

Despite Hank's assertion:
2009-09-08T16:27:19.027+02:00
Despite Hank's assertion:
Sane people don't have special conversational rituals for honoring the expelling of gases from fellow humans.
I use the Russian "будь здоров(а)" [bood' zdorov(a)], which translates to "Be healthy." And, thank you, I'm quite sane.

Hasselhoff! I love it. I'm us

2009-09-08T02:23:26.039+02:00

Hasselhoff! I love it. I'm using that.

You think we take the whole go

2009-09-07T16:46:39.875+02:00

You think we take the whole godless thing too seriously? Tell that to some gay person who's been disowned by his family. Tell it to the survivors of 9/11, or for that matter to an Iraqi family whose breadwinner got blown up by a tank with the slogan "Jesus killed Muhammad" on it. Tell it to American school children who get a watered-down science curriculum because some people think it diminishes them to have a billion-year lineage instead of a 6,000 year lineage. I pass up a lot of opportunities to knock religion, but religion is no friend of humankind. It deserves scorn and ridicule.

The proper response to someone

2009-09-07T01:34:48.831+02:00

The proper response to someone else's sneeze is, "Nice push!" The proper response to one's own sneeze is, "Whoopie!" This I learned from Ma, who said it when she sneezed. She said a sneeze made her feel good. I find both exclamations well received most of the time.

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2009-09-06T13:39:08.056+02:00

Since you write
I'm

2009-09-06T13:36:48.153+02:00

Since you write

I'm a little hazy on the details

. . . as I understand it, the belief (circa year 1000 CE) was that the force of the sneeze might shoot your soul out of your nose (much as your soul leaves via your nose when you die - - you knew that anyway, I'm sure), and while the little guy is floating around out there, desperately trying to swim back into you the way it came out, the devil has a chance to grab it and run away forever with it, like a basketball player stealing an errant dribble. Thus "bless you" was to give god a suggestion that he should help stuff the thing back in. I use

gesundheit

as an idiomatic expression which (regardless of German translation), in context, translates to something like

My, that was a corker! You probably feel uncomfortable for the moment. I sympathize.

I suppose another choice would be to say "My, that was a corker! You probably feel uncomfortable for the moment. I sympathize." - - at a cost of 21 extra syllables.

Legalization would also be the

2009-09-06T03:42:24.935+02:00

Legalization would also be the best possible thing to help stop the cartel violence in Northern Mexico. They aren't fighting over nickle bag sales to each other. The fight is over control of the smuggling routes to us. Though we waited too long, they've diversified into coke crank and people now but the majority of their funds are still from pot.....

I have a suggestion If someon

2009-09-06T02:52:07.339+02:00

I have a suggestion If someone sneezes, loudly say EVOLUTION!!!! wouldn't it be cool if THAT caught on.....

Words are IMPORTANT to thought

2009-09-06T01:39:30.848+02:00

Words are IMPORTANT to thought. They matter, a lot, in how and how well we can think. (Plenty of other ways to think than through language, but it’s one of the ones we have some conscious control over.) There's an entire linguistic set that undergirds religiosity. Most of that linguistic set is installed in us before we're able to think analytically about language, so we assume it's okay. "Hey, I'm doing okay, right? It's ME." And yet for both individuals and for humanity, I see it as ... well, imagine that you've been in a wheelchair as long as you could remember, and you lived in a society in which everybody was in wheelchairs. For you and your people it would definitely be "normal." But in any comparison to the average healthy state of your species, in any view that included the ultimate physical accomplishments of which Homo sapiens might be capable, in no way would it be "healthy." Still, if you never saw those others, you'd be perfectly content to be as you are. Just as we’re content to use the religious linguistic set, with no thought to what effect it has on us. Our species grew up without parents, without healthy, sane people to teach us and measure ourselves against. And we grew up crazy as hell. We're might be sanER than we’ve been through most of human history, and you can occasionally find fairly sane individuals, but compared to what I think might be true sanity – optimum mental software for the fully realized possibilities of human existence – our society as a whole is bugfuck insane. And I mean obscene-serial-killer-monstrosity crazy. For instance, we can happily participate in the casual murder of thousands or millions of people, including kids, in the most ugly ways imaginable, and not even care to learn the details. And I mean right now, TODAY. (And it’s not just other humans – we're so fucked up that killing other living things is not just fun, but an organized SPORT which has complex rules, a wide array of beautiful and well-loved killing tools, and an active cadre of defenders who can’t imagine why everybody else can’t love it too. And no, I’m not talking about anybody here.) I think our entire society is a sort of bonsai of what it could have been. We’re a California redwood in a 10-inch pot. Beautiful to those familiar with it, but sick and runty as hell compared to other redwoods. Out of all the pruning and stunting forces that have made us like this, religion – a thousand times worse than mere superstition, because it's organized, and taught, and because its conscious aim is to destroy human reason, confidence and freedom and replace it with guilt, fear and control – is the chief one. You could torture to death a billion people, one at a time, with slow, studied care, and not equal the horror that religion has visited on us. At least I think so. And that’s why I shy away from using any of that polluted, poisonous linguistic set.

Words are IMPORTANT to thought

2009-09-06T01:37:22.067+02:00

Words are IMPORTANT to thought. They matter, a lot, in how and how well we can think. (Plenty of other ways to think than through language, but it’s one of the ones we have some conscious control over.) There's an entire linguistic set that undergirds religiosity. Most of that linguistic set is installed in us before we're able to think analytically about language, so we assume it's okay. "Hey, I'm doing okay, right? It's ME." And yet for both individuals and for humanity, I see it as ... well, imagine that you've been in a wheelchair as long as you could remember, and you lived in a society in which everybody was in wheelchairs. For you and your people it would definitely be "normal." But in any comparison to the average healthy state of your species, in any view that included the ultimate physical accomplishments of which Homo sapiens might be capable, in no way would it be "healthy." Still, if you never saw those others, you'd be perfectly content to be as you are. Just as we’re content to use the religious linguistic set, with no thought to what effect it has on us. Our species grew up without parents, without healthy, sane people to teach us and measure ourselves against. And we grew up crazy as hell. We're might be sanER than we’ve been through most of human history, and you can occasionally find fairly sane individuals, but compared to what I think might be true sanity – optimum mental software for the fully realized possibilities of human existence – our society as a whole is bugfuck insane. And I mean obscene-serial-killer-monstrosity crazy. For instance, we can happily participate in the casual murder of thousands or millions of people, including kids, in the most ugly ways imaginable, and not even care to learn the details. And I mean right now, TODAY. (And it’s not just other humans – we're so fucked up that killing other living things is not just fun, but an organized SPORT which has complex rules, a wide array of beautiful and well-loved killing tools, and an active cadre of defenders who can’t imagine why everybody else can’t love it too. And no, I’m not talking about anybody here.) I think our entire society is a sort of bonsai of what it could have been. We’re a California redwood in a 10-inch pot. Beautiful to those familiar with it, but sick and runty as hell compared to other redwoods. Out of all the pruning and stunting forces that have made us like this, religion – a thousand times worse than mere superstition, because it's organized, and taught, and because its conscious aim is to destroy human reason, confidence and freedom and replace it with guilt, fear and control – is the chief one. You could murder a billion people, one at a time, with slow, studied care, and not equal the horror that religion has visited on us. At least I think so. And that’s why I shy away from using any of that polluted, poisonous linguistic set.

I say "bless you" and then fee

2009-09-06T00:09:52.380+02:00

I say "bless you" and then feel weird about it. I was afflicted with Christianity for over twenty years. Saying "bless you" predates that delusion. So it never had a particularly religious connotation for me in the first place. Of course, there's nothing wrong with a non-metaphysical blessing. Like the Bentley automobile up in Chicago with the license plate that says; "WSH U12".

I’m in the politely ignore it

2009-09-05T15:54:08.127+02:00

I’m in the politely ignore it camp. I really dislike it if I sneeze while I’m listening to someone else talk and that person has to stop speaking in order to tell me “God bless you” or “gesundheit”, and I don’t want to inflict that on anyone else.

here in sweden we say Prosit (

2009-09-05T14:37:39.236+02:00

here in sweden we say Prosit ("may be beneficial")

I've worked deliberately to ge

2009-09-05T03:14:35.343+02:00

I've worked deliberately to get all this sort of stuff out of my head, even the little, seemingly-insignificant bits. I want to know what it feels like to have a mind totally free of superstition and religiosity. Hey, somebody has to try it.

I say exactly the same thing I

2009-09-05T03:10:12.668+02:00

I say exactly the same thing I say when someone coughs, sighs or farts. Nothing. Sane people don't have special conversational rituals for honoring the expelling of gases from fellow humans. Although, if it was an especially grand brontosaurus-quality fart, it might merit some notice such as running from the room. ...... On the other side of the equation, I'm a "photic sneezer," someone who sneezes -- always exactly twice -- when he passes from a dark place into a bright one. When I'm outdoors, I like to just let the sneeze rip -- what I call the Truck Driver's Delight. I used to have nosebleeds all the time when I was a kid, and it got to be REALLY annoying that people would get excited about it, when to me a nosebleed was no more important than a momentary itch. I feel the same way about sneezes. I've never actually said anything to anyone who blesses me from across the room (well, other than a co-worker, jokingly), but what I THINK about saying is something like "Jeez, shut UP. It's just a sneeze, fer chrissake."

but sometimes i'll say "are ya

2009-09-05T01:54:16.375+02:00

but sometimes i'll say "are ya gonna make it?" instead. because everyone likes to have their viability questioned. or the less morbid, "you ok over there?"

I tend to say "bless you" out

2009-09-05T00:49:13.497+02:00

I tend to say "bless you" out of habit. My wife says "salud"

This is just totally incredibl

2009-09-04T21:39:43.490+02:00

This is just totally incredibly awesome.

Considering your dumbass comme

2009-09-04T17:05:52.234+02:00

Considering your dumbass comment elsewhere that I was attacking someone for spelling errors ...

"It is interesting to me that you attack someone for misspelling words only when they disagree with your ideas. Good job 'Hostile'.

... I'm not sure I'd really want to go to your church. (Aside from the fact that I have many better things to do than show up at a mass seance.) Good job, "Hoser." Besides, all my friends have perfect grammar and spelling. (And it's not just because they know I attack when they don't.)

Easy answer: No. Arnold Schwa

2009-09-04T01:57:08.332+02:00

Easy answer: No. Arnold Schwarzenegger can only be replaced by Chuck Norris. Chuck Norris could only be replaced by ... Colossus, the Forbin Project.

The spouse can take over becau

2009-09-03T23:39:21.467+02:00

The spouse can take over because there are no particular qualifications required to be a legislator. Fuck, even Michelle Bachmann is somehow a legislator. You can let your staff do all the work, and you just show up (or don't, as often as not) to push the button to vote the way they tell you. I suppose part of the idea is that the widow(er) shares their spouse's politics and values, but even that's dubious. Could one replace Arnold Schwarzenegger with Maria Shriver? Or James Carville with Mary Matalin?

For me this was one reason (th

2009-09-03T23:26:50.368+02:00

For me this was one reason (though not the only one) why it was important that Hillary Clinton not become the Democratic nominee in 2008, especially following on Bush I/Bush II. Maybe our country can start turning away from these de facto dynasties now. Then again, some people want Jeb Bush to run...

This is not a real person. Th

2009-09-03T15:34:37.719+02:00

This is not a real person. This is a sophisticated software robot. It can register itself as a user on a Drupal-powered site, then string together a coherent-sounding post referencing generalities (and sometimes spicing things up with a specific, context-driven nugget extracted from the OP and the replies that already exist.) This is all just to get the URL behind "Maureen's" username listed on the blog and indexed by Google's crawler-robot the next time it stops by. Hover your mouse over "Maureen's" username to see the URL, and if you want, get your nails done. :)

Maureen, I get emails somethin

2009-09-03T14:50:08.934+02:00

Maureen, I get emails something like yours all the time on my blog -- "Great post. I was glad to hear your opinion on this subject." -- and they seem to be some sort of low-level spam. I mean, it looks like a comment, but it also looks automated, not addressing the subject in any detail. I hope you're not offended but ... Are you a real person?

I think that this topic can be

2009-09-03T10:56:18.726+02:00

I think that this topic can be debated endlessly, as each man his own opinion on this topic. Nevertheless, I was very interested to hear your point of view.

First and second degree burns

2009-09-03T04:34:57.403+02:00

First and second degree burns almost never leave scars. Judging from the photos, Zachary's burn was a first degree burn, with perhaps a little second degree. His arm now (I know the family) is clear. The situation is bad enough without alarmist exaggerations.

There are two issues. 1. "Amer

2009-09-02T13:34:54.627+02:00

There are two issues. 1. "American royalty" 2. Quality of the man and his work You do no good by smashing them together. Yes: "American royalty" is a bad idea. As to Ted Kennedy:

Yeah, he was an accomplished pol. But I have a really hard time coming to the conclusion that we as a nation are better off for his having been in office for 40 years...

Do a little research. Read a list of his legislative accomplishments. Watch him address the Senate about the minimum wage on YouTube. You should have a really easy time coming to the conclusion that we as a nation are better off for his having been in office for 40 years. The annoying fact that he was elected by luck of last name is trivial by comparison. For that matter, Bobby would've been a hell of a good president, and wouldn't have bombed Cambodia. The "American royalty" meme may be an exaggeration. Simple name recognition seems to be worth millions of votes. People might vote for a Kennedy, Bush, or Gore just because they've seen the name before, not because they think the family is some sort of nobility. There is, of course, something deeply disturbing about the idea of one of these dunderheads in a voting booth, thinking

Uhh... I can't figure out who ta vote fer... wait.. I think I've heard one of these names before.. . now where was it? Oh well, it doesn't matter, I'll vote for that one. It looks familiar.

Or rather thee's something deeply disturbing about ten or fifty million people voting that way.

Glenn Greenwald did have a len

2009-09-02T06:25:34.188+02:00

Glenn Greenwald did have a lengthy article last year about dynastic succession in US politics with a possible succession by a Kennedy mentioned at the top. In his case, I would hazard that it is more a connection simply not occurring to him or the appointment of a placeholder senator being too unrelated to the topic about an apparent worship of dynasties by the media, rather than any attempt at spin. As for myself, a relation to a famous politician would actually be a point against a candidate when I'm voting ...

Can you give a good reason why

2009-09-01T16:26:02.845+02:00

Can you give a good reason why a politician's wife should be appointed to replace him other than precedent? If one could make a case that she is qualified, having some set of experience / skills that might warrant it, maybe. But just for the mere fact of being married to said pol for some odd years??

it's not as though appointing

2009-09-01T04:56:47.129+02:00

it's not as though appointing kennedy's widow is without precedent. when hale boggs died, lindy was appointed to fill his term until the next election. thereafter it was up to the people to decide. i don't see anything wrong with doing this again. it's not like the lady is a spring chicken who's going to spend another 46 years in office. I would have a problem with rfk,jr's being appointed, but that's got nothing to do with his being a kennedy and everything to do with his being an anti-vax nutjob. down here in louisiana, we have another dynasty in the landrieus. i just don't get why the dynasty thing bothers people. i wanted mitch in as nola mayor not because he was a landrieu but because i honestly thought he'd make a good mayor. i just can't see either approving or disapproving of someone because of their last name. sure, ted rose on his brothers' fame, but once there, he became a great legislator all on his own.

The replacement of a politicia

2009-09-01T04:07:28.515+02:00

The replacement of a politician by his wife has always baffled me, too. (I can't recall a case where a deceased pol was replaced by her husband, but that may be simply lack of opportunity.) Were my husband to die, I couldn't take over his job; my training is in a different field. How can a spouse be expected to take over the pol's job?

Not enough coffee yet -- it wa

2009-08-31T20:49:17.954+02:00

Not enough coffee yet -- it was justice's remark, not Milo Johnson.

I should add that the total le

2009-08-31T20:47:30.022+02:00

I should add that the total legal costs of all of the proceedings to the Board and its insurance company are now in the neighborhood of $500,000 and are still rising. The legal costs to Freshwater are not known publicly, but have to be up into 6 figures by now.

Let me introduce a few correct

2009-08-31T20:43:52.431+02:00

Let me introduce a few corrections here. I live there, have attended almost all the sessions of the administrative hearing on John Freshwater's termination, know all of the players, and am friends with the family at issue. First, the settlement will be paid mainly by the school district's insurance company, less the deductible (which I don't know). Second, contrary to Milo Johnson's remarks, the mark was not permanent. It lasted for a couple of weeks. Also, the terms of the settlement are consistent with the family's wishes. From the beginning they have said that they were not seeking large money damages but were interested mainly in ensuring that the various church-state abuses in the school were stopped and that no more children would be harmed in the kind of classroom demonstration that marked their son. For one example, part of the settlement specified (at the insistence of the parents) that the school district provide training in church-state issues to teachers. That has already started -- the first in-service for teachers on it was held week before last, and was led by an attorney for the Board and an attorney from the Ohio Education Association. The teacher in question is still a defendant in the family's federal lawsuit; the settlement was with the district defendants only. In addition, the administrative hearing on the teacher's termination is still on-going, as is a federal suit brought by the teacher against a range of defendants including the school board, various administrators, and unidentified "John and Jane Doe" defendants. For more info than you probably want to read about it, see here.

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