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..to scare the stuff out of you, forever: http://www.harpers.org/online/jesus_plus_nothing/jesus_plus_nothing.php3?pg=1

It’s bad enough that these rage-filled mouthbreathers want a theocracy. What I can’t understand is why they think they’re practicing Christianity. Hello, Heaven’s Gate for Baptists? EAT THE PUDDING EAT IT NOW NOW NOW

I’m going to go lie in a dark room now and pretend the world isn’t happening.

On our white board today:

The BOFH Excuse Server has had its telnet interface inexcusably down forever. With the necessary and invaluable assistance of Torgo who actually knows how to program computers I dumped my command line excuse generator in favor of this one, and also set up an RSS feed of random excuses here: http://iggy.fringehead.org/cgi-bin/excuse.rss (for infobots, etc.)

Satisfying. Thank you Torgo!!

The East Germans made a big mistake letting Bertolt Brecht into their country. He wrote one of my favorite political poems after one of their numerous repressive adventures:

The Solution
by Bertolt Brecht

After the uprising of the 17th June
The Secretary of the Writers Union
Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee
Stating that the people
Had forfeited the confidence of the government
And could win it back only
By redoubled efforts. Would it not be easier
In that case for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another?

NO.

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The very interesting fellow who wrote the now-pulled PostgreSQL-HOWTO (a snippet of this bit of mad genius is here and should please non-techies as well as us geeks!) has his own website, I see, and it’s just as good as I had reason to hope!

At one point in my life if I heard a heavy diesel engine chugging at idle outside my window, I would think “Hmm. Fire truck? Tow truck? Something is afoot!” and go outside to look.

Now I automatically think “Soccer mom in a 6 liter diesel dualie crew-cab pickup”. And I’m always right.

I’m not a huge Buffy fan, but especially since eyeteeth‘s recent magickal adventures, I thought I’d share this: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Theologian of the Year from The Door Magazine, my favorite religious humor magazine.

Not that there are any other such magazines.

They do some pretty good investigative work and some serious stuff as well.

And one more for all you TBN junkies out there: Paul Crouch, summed up.