I for one welcome our new Saturnian masters.

Does this picture of Saturn's pole look a little, um, hexagonal to anyone?

This Modern World finally gets something right

I don't know if everyone's familiar with This Modern World or not, but in the land of Socialists of Convenience (who this very day have a neo-Marxist professor being fellated on the local talk-radio, sigh), This Modern World is very popular. Generally wrong-headed even when not overtly incorrect, but rarely worth the time it takes to scan. Except for this entry over at Salon, wherein the cartoonist finally gets one right. Pay attention to the very last frame, too -- it's important (check out the link to ML Implode on my side-bar for details).

Muppets in Trouble

XKCD smacks it outta the park

James Cameron and the Bones of Jesus

So there's a big brouhaha going on about James Cameron's Discovery-Channel thing-o about the bones of Jesus potentially having been found in an ossuary in Jerusalem. The filmmaker basically took a hypothesis that would be much too politically radioactive to get addressed by the academic community, and put together a docu-drama that will interest enough people that the scientific community will eventually have to address the question, and will be able to investigate it under the aegis of "debunking".

What's really important to note, however, is that even should every ounce of the hypothesis turn out to be true, it in no way invalidates Christianity. Given that the new bodies promised of the resurrection are not the flesh of this world and that nor is the resurrection only promised to those buried recently enough not to have mouldered, there's no reason to conclude that Jesus of Nazareth's actual remains being found implies that either the Resurrection or the Ascension didn't occur.