Making the rounds at the moment

If you're thinking about voting for McCain...

Georgia

This is an astute analysis of the situation in Georgia, wherein absolutely everyone is shown to be incompetent, corrupt, or both. Well worth a read.

Online discussions

Chatting to Julie last night about my post yesterday (where she moved part of it to email, and then to face to face discussion) - she said she finds it hard to deal with my online postings because they come across as statements of fact, rather than my opinion.

To which my rather flabbergasted response was that _of course_ they were statements of opinion - what else _could_ they be?  I take everything I read as a statement of opinion.  If it's on my journal it's my opinion, my latest working hypothesis, my guess at what's most likely, or the latest conundrum that's going through my head.

I don't post anything on my journal that I'm not happy to have argued with - and it delights me when peope tell me I'm wrong and then back it up with something that makes me think about it.  I won't hesitate to point out problems in other people's arguments, and I'm glad there are people out there that won't hesitate to point out holes in mine.

And if it helps, next time you're reading, take a bunch of these and sprinkle them over everything I say.

Proof of evolution

Because, y'know, we need it now and again.
This video, gacked from cavalorn shows how our DNA is descended from the same common ancestor as the other primates:

and has pretty much no other explanation, except for a trickster God.

Feel free to show to any ID supporters you have the misfortune to run into.