Archive for July, 2009

Muslim life just isn’t worth as much as Christian life.

Posted on 7 July, 2009. Filed under: Sad Panda | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

I remember back when Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh was brutally stabbed to death, there was quite a bit of outrage around the world.  And rightfully so; he was murdered in cold blood by an extremist.  As offensive as I and others found his anti-Islamic bigotry, the reality is that he was not hurting anybody [...]

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Sentence and Text: English Grammar

Posted on 5 July, 2009. Filed under: Cowwect Gwammaws | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

In the English language, there are four categories of grammatical units: words, phrases, clauses, and sentences.
Word has been defined in previous posts.  Words in English have eight different categories, referred to as the eight parts of speech.  These are verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, determiners, pronouns, and conjunctions.  Verbs, nouns, adjectives and adverbs are often [...]

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P.Z. Myers: An Interesting Study in Bigotry

Posted on 3 July, 2009. Filed under: Koofer Woofers | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

One thing that I have always found fascinating is the phenomenon of intellectual dishonesty.  To be more specific, I am fascinated when that phenomenon emanates from intelligent and educated individuals.  The exact words to describe it escape me, though I feel it arises from a combination of maliciousness, arrogance, and a host of personality complexes [...]

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