Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Nov 4, 2009, 8:13 am
The first 40 seconds or so are great. Also, I would like to point out Eugenie Scott's article about Ray in USA Today, which ends on an inside joke. (Eugenie, call me!) Both of these come from S...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Nov 4, 2009, 5:17 am
Conference in town next week. Gonna be in St. Louis. There seems to be a growing group of skeptical types there. Wanna party? HJ
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Nov 3, 2009, 10:11 pm
I am five papers away from being officially caught up. Just a few days before student podcasts are due. And I have some serious writing to do for a few days. I would normally just take a section of...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Nov 2, 2009, 11:53 am
I have received my first commission here. It's a special request going out Richard. It has to do with Dave Daubenmire. You know, former coach, current useless self-promoting media whore? Well,...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Nov 2, 2009, 6:15 am
A student sent me this, and I love it. http://www.quantumjumping.com/lp/esp-intuition-1?sr=1 Now get out there and manifest endless abundance, sucker! Thanks for visiting, and happy jumping! HJ
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Nov 2, 2009, 6:09 am
"Well, I don't know." http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091102/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_cheney_cia_leak Ah, it's like Iran-Contra all over again! By the way, when did Ollie North become a sought af...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Nov 2, 2009, 5:39 am
I'm sorry, but this is the damnest thing that I have seen in a long time. I love how some halfwits are answering her questions. The same slackjaws were with me this last week at the World of Coc...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Nov 1, 2009, 9:35 pm
I understand the whole "daylight savings time thing," more or less, but I have an atomic internal clock, and when the clock springs forward in April, I will only just have gotten used to the extra hou...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Nov 1, 2009, 12:12 am
I mean, really, primo lunacy! Pat Robertson jumps the undead shark! My favorite is the one about vampires. They can't say they don't exist...so pathetic. HJ
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Oct 31, 2009, 8:06 pm
Last night, I was at a charming Halloween party talking up Uhura with silver-foil on my head. We were talking about ghosts. "I was in the bathroom at some friends' new house," she said, "And th...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Oct 29, 2009, 9:32 am
This is least new-like thing that I have ever encountered. http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2009/10/ghost_in_the_brain_an_appariti.html Resist the urge to dumb it down, NPR! HJ
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Oct 29, 2009, 9:01 am
Amy Wallace has written an article about the antivaccine movement, "An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All," and by listening to the NPR interview with her, one of t...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Oct 28, 2009, 9:43 pm
I've been on the web since I was knee high to a pole cat, but today was one of the dumbest damned computer training sessions that I ever had. I swear. My department wants me to make a profession...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Oct 28, 2009, 12:48 pm
Pretty funny stuff. Thanks to Animala. (attaboy, Bananaman!) HJ
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Oct 28, 2009, 6:18 am
From Not the 9 O'Clock News: and... Not from Not the 9 O'Clock News Here endeth the lesson! HJ
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Oct 27, 2009, 9:19 pm
I am waiting for my roommate to clear out so I can finish looking at my students' annotated bibliographies. It's the damnedest thing, Ghost Lab. 10 seconds into the show and they have alread...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Oct 26, 2009, 8:07 pm
This is essentially what I did with my class today. 3 times. 60 homeopathic sleeping pills. My first class did not want me to take them all. ("Just take 10, Dr. McGhandi!") My last class offered ...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Oct 26, 2009, 5:32 pm
Did you catch that edit? Like nobody would notice the big, convenient skip? Seriously, you suck, antivax scumbags. It could have happened no matter what vaccine she got, not just the flu shot. It&...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Oct 26, 2009, 11:37 am
It makes you wonder why someone would want to sue those who are merely asking questions about this important issue. I mean, if a girl was raped and murdered, why would anyone deliberately try to stif...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Oct 25, 2009, 10:58 pm
Tomorrow morning, I need to tally scores and record grades for my most recent batch of papers. They are looking pretty good, but my students suck at citation and bibliographic formatting. I will yel...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Oct 24, 2009, 9:09 pm
Right now I am running an experiment. I just took 20 sleeping pills! Don't worry, they are homeopathic sleeping pills. Heehee. Next week, I am going to start a section on alternative medicine,...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Oct 22, 2009, 3:57 pm
That's the title of the press release, and I see no reason to not use it as the title of this post. I love the ACLU. HJ
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Oct 22, 2009, 12:57 pm
Friend of HJHOP Richard Hughes has posted the minutes of the SkeptiCirc, Inc., board meeting. I know we don't meet that often, but is always good to see everyone at these meetings. I am going to...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Oct 21, 2009, 3:27 pm
A breath of fresh air from our religious fellow citizens. An article from the Baptist Press about fear and rumor. Now be nice to gay people, women and scientists, and we'll be cool as drool. HJ
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Oct 21, 2009, 2:42 pm
People get me steamed. I recently started getting emails from a "natural health" dickhole named Mike Adams. He's pretty bad, and I have not seen him say anything right about vaccination...or any...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Oct 21, 2009, 2:30 pm
How's that happy crappy? I kind of figured that there were more threats against Obama than the tedious George Bush, but even I didn't think that it would be 4 times as many. What the fuck is...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Oct 21, 2009, 12:08 pm
Dear Sen. Alexander, It is with some urgency that I write to you and stress how important it is that you do not keep a list of people you intend to kill. Every single time such a document has surfac...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Oct 21, 2009, 5:39 am
For an explanation of this video, if you haven't already, go to NASA's Astronomy Photo of the Day. HJ
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Oct 20, 2009, 8:41 pm
It's strange. I have given talks recently about podcasting to my colleagues and employer. I have a spectacularly mediocre podcast myself. Now that I am forced to discuss "the podcast" with my s...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Oct 20, 2009, 7:49 am
Seriously, this is the most disturbing advertisement I have seen in a long time. Watch your hands, lady! HJ
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Oct 20, 2009, 5:38 am
It seems that our Muslim friends are also not beneath faking a lame-ass miracle at the expense of a child. Is it me, or is that kid bruised? HJ
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Oct 20, 2009, 5:17 am
My money worries are over. No overhead, no responsibility or standard of care, no expectations for outcomes. I am delighted. If the Republicans wanted to whine about wasted tax dollars, this would...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Oct 19, 2009, 6:45 pm
Following up on my drunken revelry the other night, I wanted to put together, well, sentences that expressed meaning in a way that others would be able to decode. It's been a few days since I'...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Oct 14, 2009, 1:11 pm
I was in fine lecture form, I think. Probably one of my best teaching days ever. I started with a girl laughing in Tanzania, went into the meaning of laughter, and from there went into a long talk a...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Oct 14, 2009, 6:01 am
Go here. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113746160&ps=cprs There, I have saved dozens of lives. HJ
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Oct 14, 2009, 5:41 am
I wrote to the Discovery Channel, home of Mythbusters, to complain about about the presence of Ghost Lab in their lineup. This is what I got in return. Dear Viewer: Thank you for contacting Discove...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Oct 13, 2009, 9:35 pm
I can only do so much at a time, folks, so in lieu of an actual post tonight, I thought that I would introduce you to someone who will actually believe anything. Anything. The prerequisite seems to ...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Oct 12, 2009, 1:00 pm
I thought this bloke made some ripping good observations about the plight of academics without the full academic freedom afforded by tenure. (Via Rate Your Students) HJ
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Oct 11, 2009, 8:28 pm
HJ (From: The Primate Diaries)
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Oct 11, 2009, 7:02 pm
From Crooks and Liars: Also, here is a future militia member: HJ
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Oct 11, 2009, 4:00 pm
I am working on a new podcast--no really, thank you, no, hold your, no...I...thank you. It's about AiG and their goofiness. There may be some other stuff too, but for now...it will have to do. ...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Oct 10, 2009, 11:57 pm
I bought the tickets right after I arrived in Georgia. Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood from Whose Line were going to be on the campus of the Georgia Institute of Technology (acronym: unfortunate). T...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Oct 10, 2009, 10:04 am
The 121st Skeptics' Circle is up at The Mad Skeptic. Do it for the children, won't you? HJ
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Oct 9, 2009, 5:50 pm
The first of the usual disappointments has, well, not disappointed. Bill Wilson dropped this trouser dumpling over at Bible Prophecy today regarding the Nobel Peace Prize that went to Obama: And the ...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Oct 9, 2009, 2:37 pm
I'm sure you know this, but a lot of people will interpret the Nobel Prize as a sign of: 1) Obama working for the UN; 2) Obama controls the Norwegian Nobel Committee; 3) Obama is the antichrist; ...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Oct 9, 2009, 5:26 am
Did you read this? Obama won the Peace Prize? How? Waaaay too early (or, depending how you look at it, waaaay too late for the US not to be a hegemonic dicksore). Update: I have been looking at th...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Oct 8, 2009, 10:04 am
Seriously. Do you goofy goobers have to not only confirm every single stereotype of rural Alaska, but also invent new ones? Jeezis. Also, I would like to thank Skepchick Amanda for the lead on the ...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Oct 7, 2009, 1:12 pm
I'm thinking, "No." I had a blast last night. The U2 show was...stunning. Total eye candy, and I lost all track of time as well as spatial orientation. Just lifted up and thrown down a few hou...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Oct 6, 2009, 11:00 am
Steady air guitar with a 90% chance of white man's overbite. Wooohooo! HJ
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Oct 5, 2009, 11:00 pm
Here's an audio recording I made. Let me set the stage for you. My students have just left to return to campus. I am there. Animala is there. Three people from out of town are there. Only th...
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