The Confluence: July 2008

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

IT'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN (dadadada dadadadada dadadada dadadadadadada)

IT'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN (dadadada dadadadada dadadada dadadadadadada)

Hadron Collider world destruction countdown

Q&A: Amtrak CEO on American Ridership | Newsweek International | Newsweek.com

I've been talking about this for years. The crumbling of America's passenger rail system over the past 80 years has been a national tragedy. Sounds like people are finally starting to come around:

Q&A: Amtrak CEO on American Ridership | Newsweek International | Newsweek.com

Conventional Wisdom

All great truths begin as blasphemies.
~ George Bernard Shaw

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
~ Albert Einstein

If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
~ Thomas Szasz

You know your god is man-made when he hates all the same people you do.
~ Unknown

I like your Christ; I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
~ Mohandas Gandhi

If we'd been born where they were born and taught what they were taught, we would believe what they believe.
~ A church sign in Northern Ireland

Juries scare me. I don't want to put my faith in 12 people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
~Monica Piper

The Confluence

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

IT'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN (dadadada dadadadada dadadada dadadadadadada)

Q&A: Amtrak CEO on American Ridership | Newsweek International | Newsweek.com

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