First of all, check out Jake's amazing new tattoo. It'll be in the next BME update of course, but I wanted to include it here first. If you don't recognize it, think back to the BME stickers… Patty Kelly did a great job reinterpreting it as a tattoo:
The USA/PATRIOT act debate is still chugging along, but at least it does seem to keep getting snagged on stuff… It's bigger teeth have been pulled. Overall it's still horrific, but a whole lot better than it was as originally proposed. The ACLU has a great chart showing the differences between all the bills, as well as comparing to the current laws.
In some of the arguments that I've been having recently about Church Stuff one of the things I jokingly proposed was that all ministers must meet a minimum IQ requirement… That is, if you don't have at least a 140 IQ you can not be a minister. What would happen if the same was done for all government officials? I'm not saying that things would be better, but I know they'd be either a whole lot better, or a whole lot worse…
Oh, and I'm seeing more and more stories about the war not really being about Bin Laden, and about where the war will expand to next. It's starting to become no secret that this is World War III. How many countries have to be involved for it to be a “world war”. If it's a dozen countries attacking another dozen countries, I figure that counts. (Although let me interject that I am very impressed with how low the death count is — even the Taliban are claming it's only about 220 people in all).
If you read any of the links I provide on this subject, this one is worth it: none that matter.
If you just want to read something funny, here's a one paragraph interview with Scott Ian (the lead singer of the band Anthrax), where he says, “It's as though it's 1937 and I'm a bandleader named Freddie Hitler… People keep coming up to me and saying, 'Hey, wouldn't it be funny if you got anthrax?'”
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