Old FURIOUS nads! by The One True b!X

“[W]hat’s going on in the intelligent design proposal, from a theological point of view, is the attempt to bring the ultimate and the infinite down in a belittling way into the continuum of natural causes as one finite cause among others,” testified Catholic theologian John Haught at the Dover Panda Trial (as related in 40 Days and 40 Nights by Matthew Chapman). “And any time, from a theological point of view, you try to have the infinite become squeezed into the category of the finite, that’s known as … idolatry.”

It’s taken nearly three years (scroll down to the fifth comment), but the Auditor’s Office finally is “working on a pilot project to provide greater access to the Council Agenda by publishing the individual items”. When did this actually begin?

“I say go for it. Beat the Yankees. Win the division,” writes Dan Shaughnessy. “Cop the best record in the American League to give yourself home-field advantage throughout the postseason. Use Jonathan Papelbon the way you’d use him in July and August. Find out if Manny can play before he calcifies at the end of the bench. Tell Eric Gagne to find his mojo on somebody else’s watch. Stop babying Clay Buchholz and get the kid ready for playoff action. Play Jacoby Ellsbury until he’s no longer hitting .372 or until he gets thrown out stealing one time. Fire all your guns at once and explode into space.”

Anyone out there want to help people like me — who simply blink absently when David Crowe of Restore America’s Bigotry warns his fellow bigots not to “fall victim to the Sanballats and Tobiases of the world, including those within your own camp” — by explaining to which Sanballat and Tobias he is referring?

Am I the only one who finds it ironic that neither a Craigslist job posting for an answering service (I didn’t even know those still existed), nor the company website to which it links (which is very poorly written), includes any means of contacting them?

“The key to social change in this country seems fairly straightforward,” writes Steve Benen (if I can return to Talking Points Memo again). “[W]ait for conservatives to have more life experience.”

Bill O’Reilly deigns to have dinner at a restaurant in Harlem. Later he reports his sheer amazement that the black people there behaved like normal human beings.