Jesus and Mo

Spot on, again: J&M, with good comments fro Ophelia Benson.

They're Up The wall

The BBC news report on Women of the Wall shows the hypocracy of the religious mind, and the lack of a sense of humour that makes them fail to spot irony.

"...rabbi Ovadia Yosef denounced women's prayer groups that wear the tallit at the Western Wall as acting to promote a feminist cause and not out of piety." - A well-put pious argument rabbi, and not at all promoting male domination of the relgion, eh?

And, don't the women get it? They're claiming unfair treatment on religious matters in a society dominated by dogmatic relgious males? Why bother. Pick a relgion where women are already treated as equals - granted you're going to have to skip all the mainstream religions. Sod it, become atheists.

Storm

Pretty good poem

The Zombie Problem, by Robert Smith?

At first I thought this BBC News item (paper here) might be a reference to the David Chalmer's Zombie Problem, but apparently not.

And the Prof's name, Robert Smith?? You really do need two question marks, as in, "Who is Robert Smith??!