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Happy Easter

New Pope

The Pope is dead retired, long live the Pope.

Great, super, smashing, fantastic, great! Keep out of the black and in the red, nothing in this game for two in a bed.

 

Atheism increases

The 2011 census includes many fascinating statistics, doubtless troubling to many. I did however find this one very encouraging.

The number of those who said they had no religious affiliation increased by 10 percentage points from 15% (7.7 million) in 2001 to 25% (14.1 million) in 2011.

That statistic should be quoted back every time [...]

Honeyed words

I’ve begun reading Museum Without Walls, the latest book from national treasure, Jonathan Meades. I’ve not even completed the first chapter but I’ve been entranced, again, by his vocabulary, wit and wisdom. Some quotes will hopefully elucidate my enjoyment.

While discussing taxonomy and football:

A buzzard is an avian analogue of the even squeakier David [...]

America in March

Don’t go!

On March 31, 2013, Christians will take to the streets in their automobiles. Relying only on the divine protection of Jesus Christ, they will prove that the Savior of Man will not abandon them when they remove their hands from the steering wheels of their cars for a total of 5 minutes.

They [...]

Bumper sticker

If I had a car, this bumper sticker would be on it.

Deep view

This image was taken by the Hubble space telescope, using the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-object Spectrometer (NICMOS) and shows the oldest visible structures in the universe. In it are the first galaxies to form after the big bang, some 13 billion years ago. The image represents [...]

Quote of the day

Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason, and the mind becomes a wreck.

Thomas Jefferson