Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Nov 26, 2009, 2:46 pm
From AiG:"Dr. Purdom, with a PhD in molecular genetics from Ohio State University, is (to our knowledge) the only female PhD scientist engaged in full-time research and speaking on Genesis for a bibli...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Nov 26, 2009, 1:25 pm
Another possible title was, "Bodie Hodge Makes God Facepalm." Bodie Hodge, consistently the dumbest person at Answers in Genesis by several orders of magnitude (impressive, that), but who presumably ...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Nov 25, 2009, 5:37 pm
If one day you hear that not a single Salvation Army bell ringer in Atlanta arrived at work one morning, in the interest of not wasting public resources, please encourage the police to just dig up my ...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Nov 25, 2009, 11:54 am
Via Steven Novella at Science Based Medicine. You heard about that misdiagnosed "coma" patient who had been lying around for a couple of decades, who now seems to be "locked-in" (think Diving Bell an...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Nov 24, 2009, 10:24 pm
I honestly don't know how people like him stay out of institutions. You know, he invited me to post on his site twice, told me that he would post my replies to his challenges. "What are you....a...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Nov 24, 2009, 2:43 pm
Perhaps it was not a good idea to hand out copies of Comfort's bowdlerized Origin at universities, where people are often equipped with critical thinking skills. HJ
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Nov 24, 2009, 1:52 pm
Think of the potential for mockery! HJ
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Nov 23, 2009, 7:24 pm
There has been a running dialog between me and Malcolm Trosclair. Malcolm Trosclair said... Thanks so much for spelling my name right and linking to my blog post "A New Short Bus Rider Malcolm Trosc...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Nov 23, 2009, 3:20 pm
"I Traced My Dad...and Discovered He is Charles Manson" Oh, I hope this is true. It's like all of my urban legend fantasies rolled into one! It has a simplistic moral (don't look for your r...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Nov 23, 2009, 2:14 pm
I was so upset last night when I logged out of my gmail account and, not meaning to, logged out of blogger in the middle of writing a post. When I hit "post" I lost everything I had been working on. ...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Nov 21, 2009, 10:37 pm
I went back to where the IIG Preliminary for Anita Ikonen took place (she failed) to see if there was anyone left in the chat, hours later. There wasn't but the last thing that I saw was this. 10...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Nov 21, 2009, 10:29 pm
"Did the US make mistake in skipping vaccine additive?" (They are talking about adjuvants, like aluminum, that provoke a stronger immune response with less antigen, maybe doubling overall dose supplie...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Nov 21, 2009, 6:23 pm
Anyway, a doggedly persistent Malcolm Trosclair will be discussing the fall of the Twin Towers in the comments here, and I give him full permission to reproduce anything that I do here in this post or...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Nov 21, 2009, 3:42 pm
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/vision-from-feeling-demonstration# I'm there now. HJ UPDATE: I got to ask a question! I'm the one who asked what it would take for her to take her site down. ...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Nov 21, 2009, 10:08 am
My new favorite Onion Radio News clip: Also, in the Adventures of Has-Been and Never-Was: (via Bay of Fundie) HJ
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Nov 21, 2009, 8:48 am
...QUANTUM JUMPING!!!! Unless you are turd-in-a-coiffure Burt Goldman. We'll get to that. I forget how I started getting these emails, but they come from a guy named Burt Goldman and his hair. ...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Nov 20, 2009, 11:56 am
Saw the news article this morning. Made an announcement in class, while doing a little dance (the dance of reason), and then, after all that foreplay, Elyse gave me the happy ending with this line: W...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Nov 20, 2009, 5:53 am
"I have a Big Muff Pi pedal. I absolutely love it. Very crunchy with lots of fuzzstortion. It attacks with a lot of flangy reverb." --Ben
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Nov 20, 2009, 5:16 am
To squeeze or not to squeeze, that is the question, Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of early false positives, Or to take arms against already well-understood risks ...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Nov 19, 2009, 8:16 pm
I'll show it to you. I just picked up this classic fuzz pedal: I really have gone pedal crazy since I arrived in Atlanta. I've gotten five new ones and repaired one. You would probably rec...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Nov 16, 2009, 3:44 pm
I have seen a lot of weird vampire shit today. Don't know why. I've also, as luck would have it, encountered a lot of stuff today about, and I'm not making this up, copyright law and wha...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Nov 16, 2009, 3:28 pm
"Kiss my majestic black ass, Bill Kristol!" Again with the "presidents don't bow" bullshit. If this is what you are pissing about, strange right-wing fringe, you are hastily ushering yourselves ...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Nov 16, 2009, 8:10 am
While I could blather dippily over RadioLab for hours, this week I will fawning over On the Media's coverage of morning talk show medical reporting. The link is to an interview with Health News R...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Nov 15, 2009, 10:29 pm
Hi. I just arrived back in Atlanta. I drove for, what, 40 hours straight? Not peeing. I'm about to pee. Unfortunately, I'm likely to be draining my bladder until class tomorrow, and I hav...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Nov 15, 2009, 8:27 am
OK, I made up the second half. I haven't listened to this podcast yet (that's what I have on tap for the long ride home this afternoon). Also, NO SHIT! I do not know whether or not she expl...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Nov 14, 2009, 1:47 pm
I promise to get through this brief post with minimal references to Nelly. I want to thank the folks from the St. Louis Skeptics Society, who mobilized on very short notice for some high-level carousi...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Nov 13, 2009, 5:16 pm
For sale: Bugatti Veyron. $1.5 mil OBO HJ
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Nov 12, 2009, 5:39 pm
I would like to point out that the creationist creeps over at Answers in Genesis have failed to understand the documentary on human origins that is currently showing on PBS. This week, the perpetual ...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Nov 11, 2009, 9:01 pm
This morning, I found myself dozing in my office between classes, which is a bad sign if you plan to drive 9 hours. So I put it off until tomorrow morning. It's frustrating--I wanted to get out ...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Nov 11, 2009, 6:30 pm
Finally, a product that is light-years ahead of tin foil and murderous rampages through shopping malls! http://www.stopabductions.com/ I like the testimony: "Since trying Michael Menkin's Helmet...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Nov 11, 2009, 6:08 pm
I bought Rice Krispies and Cocoa Krispies and required everyone in my class to take a bowl. We are now completely protected against the swine flu, bacteria in our gut, HIV, pregnancy and other infecti...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Nov 10, 2009, 7:41 pm
It's shocking and undeniable. Brannon Howse can now be said to have ties to Scientology: http://donjobson.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/brannon-howse-caught-making-anti-christian-hand-signals-and-gest...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Nov 9, 2009, 10:53 pm
I would like to see every single skeptic on the planet drive home the following point over and over until they get banned from public places, shunned by their friends and ostracized by their families....
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Nov 9, 2009, 5:17 am
I was pleased to see this review of The Fourth Kind ("kind of stupid") at CNN. HJ
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Nov 8, 2009, 9:26 pm
This is something that I wrote back when we lost Kurt Vonnegut. I reread it tonight, and it struck me as probably one of the better things that I have written at HJHOP. So, I inflict it upon you aga...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Nov 8, 2009, 5:55 pm
That's what my world has devolved into, a long series of revisions. When I am writing here on the blog, I just let 'er rip. Who knows what I'm going to say? Not even me. I mean, did an...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Nov 8, 2009, 1:41 pm
Turns out that El Debarge, whose only contribution to mankind was to write a song so annoying that only Weird Al could fix it, recently got out of prison after serving a year for possession of crack. ...
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Bing M. posted an article on Happy Jihad's House of Pancakes - Nov 7, 2009, 3:24 pm
HJ
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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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