Thanks to Ellen who sent a picture of her cat Charlie to be posted last week (I was getting my ass kicked in Wii Boxing by a ferocious Mrs. C)
The Digg Effect
Oct 5, ’07
10:02 AM
If things are a bit slow around here today, this is the reason why.
Update:
That wasn’t too bad. I’m pleased with my hosting company, Dreamhost, for not putting me on a server that melted down when the hits started coming in.
Daily Dose of Ingersoll
Oct 5, ’07
8:20 AM
The church persecuted the astronomers and denied the facts. In February, in the year of grace sixteen hundred, the Catholic Church, the “Triumphant Beast,” having in her hands, her paws, the keys of heaven and hell, accused Giordano Bruno of having declared that there were other worlds than this, He was tried, convicted, imprisoned in a dungeon for seven years. He was offered his liberty if he would recant. Bruno, the atheist, the philosopher, refused to stain his soul by denying what he believed to be true. He was taken from his cell by the priests, by those who loved their enemies, led to the place of execution. He was clad in a robe on which representations of devils had been painted — the devils that were soon to claim his soul. He was chained to a stake and about his body the wood was piled. Then priests, followers of Christ, lighted the fagots and flames consumed the greatest, the most perfect martyr, that ever suffered death.
Robert Green Ingersoll – “Myth and Miracle”(1885)
