Second Life

So the Jesuits are going to do missionary work in Second Life. Great. Any resources they use there will keep them from bothering me in real life.

Spadaro warns the uninitiated that "the erotic dimension is very present" in Second Life, that people can buy genitalia for their avatars in a world that is "open to any form of erotic stimulation from prostitution to pedophilia."

(Yeah, like Catholic priests are uninitiated in the ways of pedophilia.)

Still, if the pederasts play in Second Life then they're too busy at the keyboard to be hanging out at the playground.

Other groups that I would like to see spend their time in Second Life? The list would be long.

Rudy 2008

Apparently, one of Rudy Giuliani's favorite slogans is "Better to be feared than loved."

I think on that alone I have to support this guy over Fred Thompson (my alternate choice.)

Terror Cheese

• San Diego, July 7. A U.S. person — either a citizen or a foreigner legally here — checked baggage containing two ice packs covered in duct tape. The ice packs had clay inside them rather than the normal blue gel.

• Milwaukee, June 4. A U.S. person's carryon baggage contained wire coil wrapped around a possible initiator, an electrical switch, batteries, three tubes and two blocks of cheese. The bulletin said block cheese has a consistency similar to some explosives.

• Houston, Nov. 8, 2006. A U.S. person's checked baggage contained a plastic bag with a 9-volt battery, wires, a block of brown clay-like minerals and pipes.

• Baltimore, Sept. 16, 2006. A couple's checked baggage contained a plastic bag with a block of processed cheese taped to another plastic bag holding a cellular phone charger.

I'd like to make fun of this somehow, but some of these seem pretty serious- and would cheese last on a long flight? I always dreamed of bringing Taco Bell food back on the plane, but thought it would go bad.

p.s. If foreigners with residence in the USA are US persons, does that make foreigners in Taiwan with residence Taiwan Persons? I think I'm turning Taiwanese, I think I'm turning Taiwanese, I think I'm turning Taiwanese, I really think so!

Air Conditioning

I just want to thank Mr. Carrier for inventing Air Conditioning.

I hope your ancestors never have to work a day in their lives.