On The Other Hand

Don’t talk to me about Virginia Tech. Don’t you dare tell me that those 30 college students’ deaths are more to be mourned than the 47+ million killed by abortionists in the USA since the Roe v. Wade ruling. Think about that: 15% of this country’s population has been murdered for no good reason.
And then [...]

Yesterday I received the following e-mail claiming to be from BMG Music Service. The story is legit, and there really is a class-action suit like it says… but every link on the page goes to cdlounge.com, not bmgmusicservice.com:

At least, that’s one of the implications of research like this:
“I think the really interesting question here is the morality of our relationships with avatars and artificial lifeforms. If we seem to forge emotional bonds with artificial life—even against our will, even when we know the bots aren’t real—what does it mean when we torture [...]

This is so annoyingly inane that I just can’t believe it’s true:
“A suit alleging that the Bush administration is engaged in ongoing, widespread violations of our criminal laws must be dismissed because the alleged wrongdoer, the Bush administration, asserts that any adjudication of the issue would be counterproductive. In other words, under the administration’s legal [...]

Apparently that last post was too much of a downer; I got the lowest daily traffic in a long time! (Hmm… or maybe a Narus 6400 just decided my blog was too unpatriotic for the general public to access. Stranger things have happened!) Anyway, I wanted to lighten the mood a bit, so here’s some [...]