raincoaster thinks Tony Blair is a sexy bitch. It’s just one of those attractions you can’t explain, but watch this video and see if you can’t begin to understand.
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Monthly Archives: May 2006
The 100 Most Influential People in History…and their Religions!
For the next time you're looking for some way to stir the pot at a boring party. This is from Michael H. Hart's book The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History. No matter what the religion, you can find people the world would have been worse off without. But I didn't know Manicheanism was considered a whole separate religion: seems to me just a quality of most of them. Live and learn. Here's the top twelve:
| Rank | Name | Religious Affiliation | Influence |
| 1 | Muhammad | Islam | Prophet of Islam; conqueror of Arabia; Hart recognized that ranking Muhammad first might be controversial, but felt that, from a secular historian's perspective, this was the correct choice because Muhammad is the only man to have been both a founder of a major world religion and a major military/political leader. More |
| 2 | Isaac Newton | Anglican (rejected Trinitarianism, i.e., Athanasianism; believed in the Arianism of the Primitive Church) | physicist; theory of universal gravitation; laws of motion |
| 3 | Jesus Christ * | Judaism; Christianity | founder of Christianity |
| 4 | Buddha | Hinduism; Buddhism | founder of Buddhism |
| 5 | Confucius | Confucianism | founder of Confucianism |
| 6 | St. Paul | Judaism; Christianity | proselytizer of Christianity |
| 7 | Ts'ai Lun | Chinese traditional religion | inventor of paper |
| 8 | Johann Gutenberg | Catholic | developed movable type; printed Bibles |
| 9 | Christopher Columbus | Catholic | explorer; led Europe to Americas |
| 10 | Albert Einstein | Jewish | physicist; relativity; Einsteinian physics |
| 11 | Louis Pasteur | Catholic | scientist; pasteurization |
| 12 | Galileo Galilei | Catholic | astronomer; accurately described heliocentric solar system |
And an interesting table:
| Religious Affiliation | % in List |
|---|---|
| Catholic | 31% |
| Anglican/Episcopalian | 13% |
| Jewish | 7% |
| Atheist | 6% |
| Greco-Roman paganism | 6% |
| Chinese traditional religion/Confucianism | 5% |
| Lutheran | 5% |
| Russian Orthodox | 4% |
| pre-Nicene Christianity | 3% |
| Platonism | 3% |
| Islam | 2% |
| Hindu | 2% |
| Buddhist | 2% |
| Presbyterian | 2% |
| Zoroastrian | 2% |
| Manicheanism | 2% |
| Quaker | 2% |
| Unitarian/Universalist | 2% |
| Calvinist | 2% |
| Jain | 1% |
| Jansenist | 1% |
| United Brethren | 1% |
| Congregationalist | 1% |
| Dutch Reformed | 1% |
| Egyptian paganism | 1% |
| Mongolian shamanism | 1% |
| Taoism | 1% |
| Baptist | 1% |
| Sandemanian | 1% |
| Protestant (denomination unknown) | 6% |
| unknown | 5% |
Newton’s Laws of Physics
as presented by a group of athletic, yet highly impaired teenage boys. With slo-mo replay from multiple angles. Do not operate heavy machinery or videocameras under the influence of whatever it was that they just took. Although apparently it prevents you from feeling pain…
Today in Ancient Squid News
This monster is no myth! The Tully Monster is real, it's here, it's extremely queer, and it's absolutely unquestionably Squid. I mean, look in those eyes.
The Tully Monster is the official state fossil of Illinois, having beaten out many an elderly barfly for the coveted honour. Nobody seems to know what the little stalks are, but they've decided, after no doubt having enjoyed a lovely crab dinner, that they must be eyestalks and therefore, and also because of the teeth, that must be the front end of the monster. One notes, one does, that the museum report goes out of its way to stress that there is no evidence that the area with the teeth, which you might be tempted to call a "mouth" connects with the esophagus. So, like, what does?
Curiouser and curiouser: how strange can this Squid get? They think maybe it just gnawed things with the teeth and then sort of slid around until the actual intake met up with the mangled prey and hoovered it up. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. How many years of nursery school do you need to become a paleontologist?
Whatever. You just gotta salute (with all ten tentacles) an ancient, unclassifiable Official State Fossil Squid-like Creature that was discovered by a wandering amateur loony with a metal detector and a collecting fetish.
Dan Tully directs visitors to his Homer Glen home with some simple instructions — it's the one with three tractors on the front lawn.
The retired Lockport cop collects everything from farm implements to belt buckles dug up on his frequent metal-detector forays.
But Tully will be the first to admit that none of his prospecting treasures has quite the stature of his dad's discovery: a 300-million-year-old fossilized creature so strange it was dubbed "Tully monster."
Dan's father, Francis X. Tully, found the fossil — now on display at the Field Museum as part of a new exhibit on evolution — when the two were on one of their weekend fishing and fossil-hunting trips around 1958 near Braidwood.
"He done most of the fossil huntin', and I done most of the fishin'," Tully joked recently, sitting behind a small black-and-white photo of his father, who died in 1987 at 75, holding up a model of the squid-like creature.
Operation Global Media Domination: Sexual Deprivation and Tony Blair Appreciation: A Causal Relationship???
If you google "sexually deprived bitter women" my blog comes up fifth, not that I fucking goddam resent that. I'll be number one some day.
Ahem.
But I'm wondering if it has anything to do with my sudden, and completely inexplicable, opinion that Tony Blair is a sexy bitch.
Sure looks like I'm not the only one who feels that way.
Here he is, dueting with Shrub on Gay Bar.
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