« Ladies and gentleman, the time has come. For months now, nominations have been pouring in for those most deserving of our prestigious Bad Faith Award, presented each year to the person deemed to have made the most outstanding contribution to the cause of unreason.
« Crazy people — and I don’t mean clinically ill people who need medical/psychiatric help — are everywhere, and they are saying and doing stupid things, and they are sending their nonsense to me, and they are engaging in their foolishness in public places where they affect the normal, non-crazy, mostly sensible people. Announcing that they are mildly nuts is not a reasonable excuse to hold off on criticizing them. That logic would mean we’d have to restrain ourselves from mocking Glenn Beck or rebuking Michele Bachmann.
« This is exactly what I’m looking for for better clarity with Objective-C code, be it as read by a programmer or as parsed by a tool.
Because obviously, dogs couldn’t possibly walk on their own and much prefer stupidly hanging from your back. Via
chartier.
« Facing a new attack with an international audience playing close attention, religions have as little rational argument in their favour as ever. There was a time when they could deal with dissent through more draconian measures: the kind that can still be practiced in, say, Saudi Arabia. Having lost the power of the gun in the West, apologists of religion have a new weapon: being offended.
By the way, these are not “metal umlauts”, “über” really has an umlaut.