The Infinite Absurdity of Hinduism

Hindus worship cows. I love how they taste.

Via Der Spiegel, I discovered that some enterprising hindus are bringing a soft drink based on cow urine to market.

Cow urine, from indian cows, apparently also has marvellous curative powers. And how does cow urine acquire these powers? Apparently from its hump, which “serves as a pyramid and absorbs cosmic rays from the universe.”

Unfortunately, we humans lack the holy hump, so our urine is only good for fertilizer. And golden showers.

Appliances

I used to be excited about appliances. When I was a kid, I thought programming in BASIC on the TRS-80 was magic!
 


Today, after thirty years of using them, my attitude toward appliances has somewhat matured, due, in part, to failing eyesight, carpal tunnel syndrome, and boredom.

Today, my favorite appliance is:

Unfortunately, this attitude does not make me a likely candidate for Drone of the Month.

The Most Salient Feature of Microsoft Products

If Only

. . . We still had a free market.
 

 
I could make a killing!

If Only . . .

I were into bears.

(Or fossils.)

And a good deal more kink than I regularly encounter.

Communal Flatulence

Lest I be perceived as being unduly hard on Christians, I also find the following behavior exceedingly stupid:
 
 
And I certainly wouldn’t want to be caught down wind of it.

“Help me, Obi-wan! You’re my only editor!”

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Soon appearing on my office door. Not far from this old diatribe.

The Political Animals

Plato’s disciple, Aristotle (pictured left) observed that “man is by nature a political animal.”

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Aristotle’s disciple, Scarotese (pictured right) cynically countered that primates are, by nature, social-hierarchical animals.

After which, Aristotle expelled Scarotese from the Lyceum.

Sector 7 G

I bet I know which company designed that nuclear reactor interface.

On Method

A: So all doctrines are fetters.

B: Yes.

A: Chains for the mind.

B: Yes.

A: Is not the scientific method a doctrine?

B: No, it is a series of steps designed to discern the truth.

A: A series of steps?

B: Yes. And based on a principle. The principle of falsifiability.

A: Which is not a doctrine?

B: You are, truly, the anti christ.