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Alternate, less exciting reading of the Gospel of Judas.

Reality has a liberal bias, #4375: immigrants lower crime rates (via james_nicoll)

Physics-biology lolcat

Suspect records detective during interrogation with his MP3 player, proves perjury. We're told not to worry that lying detectives might be, you know, common.

Squirrel in armor

Wikipedia on Tiahuanaco includes a brief but interesting discussion of their raised-field agriculture, with canals holding warmth to survive killing frosts.

John Ford on games in one solar system. Somehow the mention of an orrery in place of a star map really appealed to me.

Article I haven't actually read yet, but supposedly on Huckabee getting a rapist released to get back at the Clintons.

A lolthulhu.

No links, but in response to the report that Iran stopped its nuclear weapons program four years ago, Bush has called on Iran to "come clean", and Gates talks about the ongoing threat. The Supreme Court is gearing the appeal of Guantanamo detainees; Roberts asks what the length of detainment has to do with anything. This in the context of people held for six years without charges, in an undeclared "war" against a nebulous enemy, with some of the detainees plausibly turned in by biased informants in Afghanistan. "Yeah, that guy with the attractive land next to mine is a terrorist, trust me."

I thought recently that to say prostitution is inherently wrong because of the oft-attendant abuses is like saying cotton farming is wrong because of slavery. It's the abuses which are the problem, not the economic transaction itself.

Someone's sig quote on rpg.net:
"Liberal? Pagan? Atheist? Socialist? So we have birth control, hot naked chicks, subjective morality and workers rights...Tell me, what does the other side having going for it?-Dogstar

And in conclusion, the climate must be controlled.

Homemade organic junk food

Squeeze from its package some pork sausage from one of the local 100% grass-fed beef producers. Add some organic, sugar-less, salsa, and some pieces of Danish havarti cheese (sparing a thought for the Mohammed-cartoon protesters who inspired me to seek out Danish cheese.) Microwave for a minute. Mix up the sausage, microwave another minute. Add organic garlic corn chips, smash and mix, wait a bit for it to cool off and the chips to soak up juices. Eat.

Seems way too fast and tasty to be healthy. Well, fair bit of fat and salt (from the chips) in there, so not exactly salad healthy, but I'd think not crappy either. Meat, cheese, grain, tomatoes, onions, spices...