bad housekeeping not fatal after all

From the New York Times:

STAMFORD, Conn, Aug. 28 — The Connecticut Supreme Court on Monday overturned the conviction of a woman who prosecutors said had kept such a messy home that it endangered the safety and mental health of her 12-year-old son, who killed himself in 2002. . . .

pluto demoted

The planet named for the god of the underworld has been exiled, demoted to a dwarf planet.

We’d love to exile mortality, banish death.

Certainly we don’t want to be seeing those mutilated bodies or those flag-draped coffins.

Plus, he’s faithful.

unbelievers, unite!

Jonathan Miller's Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief is muchly on the persecution of English atheists.

Plenty of class bias here. And where are the women?

But I like that when he talks about the wtc twin towers he doesn’t show the usual clip—nothing of the towers coming down: we see the cleanup, W’s posturing.

And I appreciate the point that one wouldn’t think about one's disbelief if it weren’t being raised so much of late in culture.

Ends by excoriating the Christian fundamentalist cabal in the White House.

b&w is more realistic

Which director will commit to celluloid the story of your life?

Ingmar Bergman
Your film will be 66% romantic, 31% comedy, 53% complex plot, and a $ 40 million budget.
Your life will be portrayed on film as an intense psychological drama, likely with some actresses screaming at the camera (Persona), or maybe a pleasant chess game between the Grim Reaper and a Crusader (The Seventh Seal). This Swedish director's films are intensely scrutinized and studied in colleges all over the world to this day. This means that most Americans still don't understand his films!