Dummkopf Bill Frezza Blames Carnage on Christmas

Apparently unable to calculate the enormous numbers of people killed by modern Enlightenment ideologies in the last century, a supposed expert of the shop and till variety decides that monotheism is to blame for all our ills and that we should go back to the days of gods, goddesses, human sacrifice and free love:

For a movement sharing a common heritage claiming peace and love, monotheism seems to do a remarkable job stirring up hatred.

What is it about the business models of these institutions that foment such torrents of violence? What other large scale human endeavor, besides the nation-state, has so much blood on its hands? And not just lately. This has been going on for thousands of years.

"Besides the nation-state"? He must be kidding. Nevermind that the world's last bastion of Christianity interceded to bring an end to the worst war yet only after it was attacked.

Remind me to invest my money with someone who can count.

Of Druids and Fluids

One winter a fearless young Druid

dived into a rotating fluid.

But he was not ready

for such a fast eddy.

The poor fellow's head came unscruid.

-- author unknown (David Lesley, Organizer: The Literary Group Weekly departmental seminar, San Diego State University Department of Mathematical Sciences, since 1974?), 1994

To Infinity! And Beyond!

There was a young fellow from Trinity

Who took the square root of infinity.

But the number of digits

Gave him the fidgets;

He dropped Math and took up Divinity.

-- George Gamow, 1961

Some Religions Are More Equal Than Others in New York City

A Greek Orthodox Church was destroyed on 9/11 at Ground Zero. The official resistance to getting it rebuilt stands in stark contrast to the way officials are bending over backwards to allow a mosque on the site of a nearby coat store, also damaged by the 9/11 attack.

You can read all about it, here.