The Smug Baldy Speaks

Today’s Seed Daily Zeitgeist had a really cool link to a portion of a talk given by Ken Miller about a prediction made by evolution that, if wrong, could allow for the rejection of the entire theory.

Guess we’re not rejecting evolution today. Ain’t science grand?

There are plenty of horror flicks out there, but way deep down we know they’re fictional and so we’re not really scared by them. Startled, maybe. Disgusted, sure. But not really scared.
No, in order for a movie to really reach inside you and send an icy chill all along your spine, there […]

Earlier, we had a bit of fun with Democratic Congressman Robert Wexler from Florida concerning an appearance on The Colbert Report that was, um, edited a bit by Fox News. Last week, Wexler introduced his measure censuring President Bush for :
“his unconscionable abuse of his authority with regard to the deceitful chain of events […]

I saw this over at Skeptico. Rather than simply ridiculing The Secret for the absolute bullshit that it is, The Chaser’s take a better approach: they entertain us while they ridicule The Secret for the absolute bullshit that it is.

Sometimes you just have to make fun of stupidity, especially since it’s immune […]

Got this by way of the Gun Toting Liberal.
Congressman Wexler to File Resolution Censuring President Bush for Commuting Libby’s Prison Sentence
(Washington, D.C.) Congressman Robert Wexler (D-FL) has drafted and will file a Congressional resolution censuring President George W. Bush for his egregious and politically motivated commutation of Scooter Libby’s […]

This comes by way of mooncat at LeftInAlamama.com. On July 3rd, Keith Olbermann broadcasted one of the best “Special Comment” installments ever, in which he called on President Bush and Vice President Cheney to have as much decency as Richard Nixon had when he chose to resign than to continue to bow to […]

A friend sent this in. 1 out of 10 of you will probably need coverage:

OK - I’m Will Farrell fan - and here are some of my favorite quotes from Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby:

Ricky Bobby: If you ain’t first, you’re last!

Ricky Bobby: Well, I’m the best there is. Plain and simple, when I wake up in the morning I piss excellence.

Texas Ranger: Old man, I’m gonna […]

Just in case you missed Keith Olbermann’s special comment on the Murder Of Habeus Corpus, here is is on YouTube. One thing that should make us happy is that we still have one right left in the Bill of Rights. OK - Bill of Right.
This part is priceless:
“Getting the Military Commissions Act to […]