C-log topics

Choobus · 08-07-2007, 06:07 AM

This post is for chooblogers only. Others, please fuck off.

I have been very busy lately doing actual science (the details of which I will be happy to share with anyone who wants to know) and have not updated the chooblog. I am thinking of two topics for an awesome update, and wondered if anyone had a preference: these are the things I'm considering.

1) Recent cases of fraud in science, as a stark reminder that even the nobility of science can be religionised [i.e., made worthless] by personal greed and selfishness.

2) A rant on the inanity of religion as a specific defence against rational deconstruction: "a pot of shit so vile that calling it manure embiggens its cromulousness to a misleading degree".

Eva · 08-07-2007, 06:59 AM

Smellyoldgit · 08-07-2007, 07:29 AM

1) & 2) will do nicely for starters.

3) Have you had a full-bore rant on morality yet? - why religifuckwits consider themselves worthy of offering any opinion on social conduct based on their goat-shagging manuscripts?

4) Likewise a tirade against the toss-pots who claim power & privilege in government just because great-great-great gran'pa was caught fornicating with a rancid camel in the land of the great unwashed?

ooo - I feel better already.

ubs · 08-07-2007, 08:29 AM

If I had to choose, I would choose #1

Philboid Studge · 08-07-2007, 08:35 AM

Do number one -- and please be sure to take a steaming piss on the Merkin Monkey Administration's faith-based atrocities vis a vis science and scientists.

And don't make us wait 6 months for the steaming pile of number two.

Choobus · 08-07-2007, 09:24 AM

Phil, that's an entirely different topic. I know, It's just one more season, but it's a whole nother year.

Philboid Studge · 08-07-2007, 09:29 AM

Nuther topic? You mean the scientists who sell out for political and/or economic reasons at the top of the gov't shitheap are entirely different from cases of fraud driven by personal greed and selfishness?

Or you mean something else?

Choobus · 08-07-2007, 01:37 PM

I see your point

Philboid Studge · 08-07-2007, 03:04 PM

Maybe 'faith-based' was a tad confusing, since that is indeed a different frigging atrocity. I use 'faith-based' to describe just about all Monkey Boy policy-makin,' cuz it sure ain't based on anything recognizably rational.

Choobus · 08-07-2007, 05:27 PM

There is (or was) a serious attempt by Bush wankologists to refer to "reality based" thinking (i.e., that is was old fashioned). It sounds like a joke but they were perfectly serious (see for example "the republican war on science" by James Moody for the hard to stomach details).

Philboid Studge · 08-08-2007, 04:29 AM

Monkey Boy's aide, after saying that the interviewing reporter (unlike the populous of Planet Bush), lives ''in what we call the reality-based community'' :

Quote:

''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.''

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/ma...e162076ei=5090

08-08-2007, 04:52 AM

Excellent article, Mr Studge. It's just as relevant today as it was when it was written, 3 years ago. How did this simian ever get to be president?

It's kind of by the bypass, but I quite liked this little line, well the second part anyway: "Faith ~~heals the heart and the spirit, but it~~ doesn't do much for analytical skills". You don't even have to leave this forum to see that one in action.

ubs · 08-08-2007, 02:08 PM

Quote:

Philboid Studge wrote

Quote:

''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.''

I think Bush will remain a puzzle for all time - like Marie Antoinette. Was she an idiot or a smart ass?
Is he really that stupid and if so how is he able to move his arms and legs?

How many more days of His Nibs do we have left?

Choobus · 08-08-2007, 07:02 PM

It's true, Bush is too surreal for normal analysis. IT's telling though that he now takes th eposition tha history will be his judge. That is, he needs another layer of obfuscation before anyone could possible think him anything other than a pure bred cunt.

ubs · 08-08-2007, 09:02 PM

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Choobus wrote

This post is for chooblogers only. Others, please fuck off.

I have been very busy lately doing actual science (the details of which I will be happy to share with anyone who wants to know)

You could blog it.