Thomason Tracts

No hard feelings over siege, U.S. officials say

Nice to know that the administration doesn’t have any hard feelings. Now the question is how Israel feels about being stabbed in the back.

I’m used to the glitched-up referrals. I know sometimes I get a record of someone coming from a page that doesn’t actually have a link, and I have some idea why. (Please don’t explain further.)

However, I think today is the first time I’ve gotten one from a mail-order-bride clearinghouse.

Presidential Search Requests

Yahoo! Search Results for nucular bomb pictures

When marriage can wait, but intimacy can’t

Apparently, cohabitation (or as my grandparents called it, “living in sin”) is booming in Alabama. Once again, we’re about twenty years behind the curve. (And that’s being generous.) Me, I don’t really care what two consenting adults do between themselves. Or three, or four, or however many. This is a pretty conservative state, however.

TLC inducted into Georgia Music Hall of Fame

Just trolling for more Schmisa Schmopes Schmautopsy hits.

News From the Pre-Columbian Era

Idaho father saves son from bear attack with bow and arrow

Distracted the bear when it was on top of his son (not a kid; the father is 50, the son 29) and when it charged him shot it through the neck.

I’ve added a Google Search appliance to the site. It’s at the bottom of the screen.

AP Wire | 09/30/2002 | No execution sought in N.J. shootings

Why not? John W. Mabie is accused of the murder of his granddaughter and three others. It seems to me this is the sort of crime that the death penalty is supposed to be for. Is it because he’s old? Because he’s a former police officer? Because he’s white?

I’m not wild about the death penalty. But if you’re going to have one, you should apply it fairly.

The New Yorker’s Critic At Large reviews Stephen Jay Gould’s life and work, including his last books.

Scientific American: There’s No Stopping Them

A little bit about “inventors” who want to patent their perpetual motion machines. I’d thought that the Patent Office had stopped issuing patents for PMM, but I guess not.