Category: The Dish

Bill Clinton, whatever else he is, isn’t stupid:

The entire Old Testament can now be squeezed onto something around the size of a pinhead:

Scientists wrote the Bible by utilizing a focused ion beam (FIB) generator shooting tiny Gallium ions that etched the manuscript onto a gold surface, guided by a newly developed computer program written at Technion. Developing the program took more than three months, but writing the full text took only 90 minutes.

You can quit the atheist wise-cracks now.

I think this must have used enough carbon to melt a couple of glaciers:

Hat tip: Architecture MNP.

Pete Wehner suddenly discovers the risk of overt religiosity in politics:

Jesus’s entire ministry was directed against the pretensions of earthly power, and Christianity is trans-political, beholden to no party and no ideology. The City of Man and the City of God are different, and we should respect and honor those differences.

Pete has long been a fan of both Karl Rove and Bill Bennett, prime architects of the use of religion as a tool not just in the public square but in partisan politics. Somehow, I don’t remember him caviling at this quote from Tom DeLay pitching to a Republican crowd last year:

"Sides are being chosen, and the future of man hangs in the balance! The enemies of virtue may be on the march, but they have not won, and if we put our trust in Christ, they never will … It is for us then to do as our heroes have always done and put our faith in the perfect redeeming love of Jesus Christ."

The Republican establishment was fine with Christianism as long as they controlled it. But as soon as a Christianist comes along that they cannot control, like Huckabee, they rediscover secularism. How conveeenient. In some ways, I think Huckabee has a chip on his shoulder for a good reason.

A curtain-raiser for the core issues in the coming election:

Poll: Bullshit Is Most Important Issue For 2008 Voters

Gallup notices another wrinkle in the incredibly polarizing candidacy of Hillary Clinton. As a figure who can divide the country and alienate people, she really has no competitor in either party. Which is why some Democrats want her. They want to fight the culture war even harder.

The Republican party continues its policy of bankrupting the next generation:

"The effort to ‘pay for’ the AMT is highly offensive to members of my side of the aisle," explained Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.

We’ve been stuck in Detroit’s fabulous airport for five hours straight. One hour – allegedly – to go.

Uh-oh. Tom Cruise just bought the rights to a "Charlie Brown Christmas."