Rowland Croucher
I aim therefore I think…
‘I AM THEREFORE I THINK’… (Is this putting Descartes before de horse?) Avagooddayeveryoneunlessyou’vemadeotherarrangements…
Darwin awards
From a friend in another corner of the ‘Net, responding to ‘I AM THEREFORE I THINK’… (Is this putting Descartes before de horse?) Avagooddayeveryoneunlessyou’vemadeotherarrangements…: **** And on similar lines… The slogan of the Darwin Awards (http://www.darwinawards.com ) definitely ought to be “I think not, therefore I am not”! 🙂 Haven’t made other arrangements, so shall […]
Chicken Story
The Chicken Story…. Farmer John lived on a quiet rural highway. But, as time went by, the traffic slowly built up at an alarming rate. The traffic was so heavy and so fast that his chickens were being run over at a rate of three to six a day. So one day Farmer John called […]
Senior Health Care Solution
(Not funny… but I’ve still put it into the Humor/Humour section) So you’re a senior citizen and the government says no health care or pension for you, what do you do? Our plan gives anyone 65 years or older a gun and 4 bullets. You are allowed to shoot 2 MP’s and 2 Senior Government […]
Famous Six-word Sentences
It Is Amazing What People Can Say in Six Words ‘Four years and more than 200,000 six-word memoirs later, we continue to be blown away by what people are capable of saying in just six words.’ February 20, 2010 “The exits were entrances in disguise.” — Shannon B., writer, SMITHteens.com When we launched SMITH Magazine […]
Australia’s Foreign Aid Feb. 2010
Australia gives the world’s poor little more than small change PETER SINGER February 18, 2010 Comments 35 Australia is still a lucky country. Our per capita income is higher than that of many affluent nations, including Sweden, Denmark and Britain. On the broader Human Development Index, which includes health and education levels alongside our material […]
U S Church Growth / Decline in 2009
February 18, 2010 Only five of top 25 US churches report membership growth US membership has increased in the Roman Catholic Church – the nation’s largest Christian body – but the No. 2 Southern Baptist Convention, along with most traditional Protestant denominations, reported continuing decline, according to new figures released by the National Council of […]
Climate Change (Thomas Friedman talks sense)
Global Weirding Is Here By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Published: February 17, 2010 Of the festivals of nonsense that periodically overtake American politics, surely the silliest is the argument that because Washington is having a particularly snowy winter it proves that climate change is a hoax and, therefore, we need not bother with all this girly-man […]
The Largest religious gathering in the world
The largest religious gathering in the world involves 4 times the population of Australia – 77 MILLION according to estimates from this year’s gathering. *** Dates of Kumbh Mela in Haridwar, India, 2010 January 14 to April 28, 2010 Kumbha Mela The largest religious gathering in the world! According to astrologers, the ‘Kumbh Fair’ takes […]
No Intelligence Allowed
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (2008) Starring: Ben Stein, Richard Dawkins Director: Nathan Frankowski Product Description Big science has expelled smart new ideas from the classroom … What they forgot is that every generation has its Rebel! That rebel, Ben Stein (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off) travels the world on his quest, and learns an awe-inspiring truth […]
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