From Bleu

A musical piece from what may be my favorite film, Bleu.

Song For the Unification of Europe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6ON3iA_boQ&feature=related

The lyrics are in Greek, from 1 Corinthians 13
http://www.xs4all.nl/~beren/unieuro.html 

A radical pessimist's view

Hey, you say "pessimism" like it is something bad, hey...
http://www.nextnature.net/2010/10/douglas-coupland-a-radical-pessimists-guide-to-the-next-10-years/#more-11023

The Onion's take on the Nobel award this year in medicine.

Funny, first thing i thought of too...but in less colorful words :)

http://www.theonion.com/articles/nobel-prize-awarded-to-man-who-helped-humans-have,18219/

I just realized....

That not only is "Intelligent Design" not a scientific concept, it is also just plain bad writing. It is another name for Deus ex machina!  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_ex_machina