Canons of good spin:
- It is not a bare-faced lie.
- You have to be able to say it with a straight face.
- It has to relieve skepticism without arousing curiosity.
- It should seem profound.
-Dan Dennett
"Under any given set of environmental conditions an experimental animal behaves as it damn well pleases."
Murphy’s First Law of Biology
"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual."
Galileo Galilei
Need You Tonight - INXS - 1987
Arab is not a religion.
Arabic people do not, as a whole, believe that Jesus was a prophet. Those are called Muslims, who are followers of Islam. Not all Arabs are Muslim, either. Also, Arabic men do not wear dresses, for the most part. They are tunics, not dresses, and, again, not all Arabic men wear them.
This should not even have to be explained…
I might also add that the fellows with the basketball size cloth around their heads are typically Hindus, about as distant from Islam as you can get.
I recall sitting next to my mother on a flight to Boise after 9/11. She was quite alarmed at the Hindu man boarding the aircraft. I’m not sure what she thought he would do… yoga… burn incense perhaps?
Sunset Rubdown - The Taming Of The Hands That Came Back To Life
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This is Dodder (Cuscuta californica), it’s a parasitic plant native to the Mojave. Sofia tells me it’s orange which means it’s incapable of photosynthesis and must obtain all of it’s energy from the host plant via life-sucking haustorium that penetrate the host plant’s tissue. The poor host is California Buckwheat (Eriogonum fasciculatum).
I’ve been playing Pokemon lately…
Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution!
