![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tcpipCocktail party on Friday night was a smashing success. Special kudos to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
casca_2u whom I met in RL for the first time, Sydney-visitor v3nu5 and, of course, imajica_lj for provision of music. Many, many martinis were drunk, "the breakfast of champions". First toast of the evening was valedictions to the very recently deceased Kurt Vonnegut Jnr. My personal favourite of his books is Mother Night; his 2004 essay "Cold Turkey" pretty much explains his left-humanist point-of-view.
East Timor has had a Presidential election. Based on the first round results, it is indeed difficult to determine who will win the overall majority, although Ramos-Horta must be the favourite. The three front runners (Francisco "Lu-Olo" Guterres, Jose Ramos Horta, Fernando "Lasama" de Araujo) are all good candidates; especially compared to the calibre we seem to have in Australia (Alan Jones wins support of Rudd and Howard).
Religious fundamentalists, once again, are breaking my brain. Apart from the musueum in Kentucky, where "Tyrannosaurus rex was a strict vegetarian, and lived with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden".usekh reports that Jerry Falwell claims that global warming is a lie spread by Satan!. With more Fawell goodness watch Bill Nye engage in a bit of education on the origin of species. Turkey's secular state is being challenged by a leading presidential candidate; socialists led the nation's largest protests in history.
casca_2u whom I met in RL for the first time, Sydney-visitor v3nu5 and, of course, imajica_lj for provision of music. Many, many martinis were drunk, "the breakfast of champions". First toast of the evening was valedictions to the very recently deceased Kurt Vonnegut Jnr. My personal favourite of his books is Mother Night; his 2004 essay "Cold Turkey" pretty much explains his left-humanist point-of-view.East Timor has had a Presidential election. Based on the first round results, it is indeed difficult to determine who will win the overall majority, although Ramos-Horta must be the favourite. The three front runners (Francisco "Lu-Olo" Guterres, Jose Ramos Horta, Fernando "Lasama" de Araujo) are all good candidates; especially compared to the calibre we seem to have in Australia (Alan Jones wins support of Rudd and Howard).
Religious fundamentalists, once again, are breaking my brain. Apart from the musueum in Kentucky, where "Tyrannosaurus rex was a strict vegetarian, and lived with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden".
usekh reports that Jerry Falwell claims that global warming is a lie spread by Satan!. With more Fawell goodness watch Bill Nye engage in a bit of education on the origin of species. Turkey's secular state is being challenged by a leading presidential candidate; socialists led the nation's largest protests in history.![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2007-04-16 06:25 pm (UTC)I lurve Bill Nye. I think I learned more from him than I did from grade school.
Lynchburg
Date: 2007-04-17 12:09 am (UTC)Sadly, it was named after a person rather than an action. But it does have quite a reputation!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynchburg%2C_Virginia
I think I learned more from him than I did from grade school.
Ah yes, but he was on PBS so one could argue it was the same thing, but a different media ;-)
Re: Lynchburg
Date: 2007-04-17 03:59 pm (UTC)Also, PBS is part of a semi-private corporation (CBP). It's mostly (although just barely - 56% in 2005) supported by "viewers like you" rather than taxes.
Re: Lynchburg
Date: 2007-04-17 10:37 pm (UTC)Yeah, they don't love it tho'. One of the best things about PBS is its relative independence... It really does produce the best news material out the US; we even have the News Hour shown here in Australia...