- Who was Joan of Arc? (Wikipedia)
- Huzzah for the Five Second Rule. And it may be even longer than that.
- Fleet mileage standards are bad, and nasty, and uncompetitive, and anti-environment, and un-American, and, um, we think you should write your Congressman. Trust us, we’re the auto industry. One radio ad is set against a bucolic backdrop of cackling chickens as two men talk about buying a new pickup. “You might want to do that fast,” one says, adding the new fuel standards “are going to really jack up the price.”
- Cool archive of 5,000 vintage LA news photos.
- Blair’s on the way out, but he keeps trying to out-security Bush, pushing for a new measure to allow police to stop and question and demand ID from anyone without even the pretense of a suspected crime having occured. In a strongly worded op-ed piece in London’s Sunday Times. Blair said it was a “dangerous judgment” to put the civil liberties of suspects ahead of Britain’s security.
- If I were an atheist, I’d be a “scientific atheist.” Meanwhile, some folks make it a lot easier to be an “angry” atheist: A woman blames the devil, and not her husband, for severely burning their infant daughter in a microwave, a Texas television station reported. Eva Marie Mauldin said Satan compelled her 19-year-old husband, Joshua Royce Mauldin, to microwave their daughter May 10 because the devil disapproved of Joshua’s efforts to become a preacher.
Potpourri for the Feast of St Joan of Arc
Who was Joan of Arc? (Wikipedia) Huzzah for the Five Second Rule. And it may be even longer than that. Fleet mileage standards are bad, and nasty, and uncompetitive,…
I had to take a tie-breaker to be scientific rather than angry; both were 75%!
Hmm, that five-second rule study disagrees with one cited by Snopes. Something missing from this one is just what was on the floor before the food was dropped.
Well, sure — drop your Oreo onto a pre-cleaned antiseptic surface will give you a different result than dropping into an open sewer.
Given the options, welllll…okay.
You scored as a Apathetic Atheist
Meh… whatever. Apathetic Atheists tend towards disbelief because believing takes more work. These are the people who won’t argue religion, even if a total nutjob confronts them because arguing just seems like a waste of time they could spend doing something else.
You can find a lot more detailed information on Joan of Arc at MaidofHeaven.com than at Wikipedia