Stephanie Zvan is one of the hosts for the Minnesota Atheists' radio show and podcast, Atheists Talk. She serves on the board of Secular Woman. She speaks on science and skepticism in a number of venues, including science fiction and fantasy conventions.
Stephanie has been called a science blogger and a sex blogger, but if it means she has to choose just one thing to be or blog about, she's decided she's never going to grow up. In addition to science and sex and the science of sex, you'll find quite a bit of politics here, some economics, a regular short fiction feature, and the occasional bit of concentrated weird.
Oh, and arguments. She sometimes indulges in those as well. But I'm sure everything will be just fine. Nothing to worry about. Nothing at all.
Tow Waites, the singer, is not always easy to understand. It helps a lot if you look up the lyrics if you are not familiar with the song. (lyrics “God’s Away on Business” will do for a search term.)
That out of the way I must say that the song sums up how I feel much of the time in recent months. We seem to have, as a nation, sold our birthright for stock in Enron and a prize to be determined some time in the future. I don’t know what is coming, but it feels like the grand prize will be a complete mental, physical, emotional, and financial collapse. A societal, possibly world-wide grand-mal seizure and liquidation of brains and assets.
To make things worse when this happens half the population will fall to its knees and pray to an imaginary super being, and half will hand everything remaining to the first group of ‘thieves, killers, and lawyers’ to step up to the podium wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross and sword.
wtf? Part of the vast liberal conspiracy?
Or some video editing of a quality you just don’t see very often on YouTube.
Tom Waits and Cookie Monster, separated at birth!
Tow Waites, the singer, is not always easy to understand. It helps a lot if you look up the lyrics if you are not familiar with the song. (lyrics “God’s Away on Business” will do for a search term.)
That out of the way I must say that the song sums up how I feel much of the time in recent months. We seem to have, as a nation, sold our birthright for stock in Enron and a prize to be determined some time in the future. I don’t know what is coming, but it feels like the grand prize will be a complete mental, physical, emotional, and financial collapse. A societal, possibly world-wide grand-mal seizure and liquidation of brains and assets.
To make things worse when this happens half the population will fall to its knees and pray to an imaginary super being, and half will hand everything remaining to the first group of ‘thieves, killers, and lawyers’ to step up to the podium wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross and sword.
Oh, that’s just awesome.
Cookie Monster is Hardcore.