Use Your Best Judgment

If you’re riding along on your bicycle and you see a sign like this one, use your best judgment. Examine the shoulder before moving onto it.

No Fatal Tramplings This Year

*whew* There were no fatal tramplings on Black Friday in the US this year, nor were there any fatal tramplings on Hajj in Saudi Arabia.
Congratulations, all.

And it looks like there were no Black Friday-related shootings this year either. So that makes one year since the last fatal Black Friday shooting. Here’s hoping for a streak.

*Snort*

This struck me as really funny.

Musical Fountains at the Burj Dubai

Talk About Cool, Plus Oh My!

Vanished Persian Army Said Found in Desert.
The remains of a mighty Persian army said to have drowned in the sands of the western Egyptian desert 2,500 years ago might have been finally located, solving one of archaeology’s biggest outstanding mysteries, according to Italian researchers.
Bronze weapons, a silver bracelet, an earring and hundreds of human bones [...]

Refreshing

I finally found a news outlet that refers to the Lord’s Resistance Army as a Christian extremist group, instead of just glossing over the fact that they are a Christian terrorist group, like every one else does. It’s Middle East Online, which I know nothing about yet.
Notorious Ugandan Christian radicals suspected of committing attacks in [...]

Women’s Soccer in Palestine

Yay, another underdog team to root for. I suppose it’ll be even harder to find their gear than the Palestinian men’s team’s.
The Palestinians were playing the Jordanians. But more significant was that the women’s teams were playing, and for the Palestinian side it was the first international match played outdoors at home.
In Al Ram, [...]

Egypt Has Had Enough of The Louvre’s Crap

Egypt has reached the end of its rope with the Louvre museum, which refuses to return Egyptian artifacts.
Egypt said Wednesday its antiquities department severed ties with France’s Louvre museum because it has refused to return what are described as stolen artifacts, one of the country’s most aggressive attempts yet to reclaim relics from some of [...]

Memorializing the War Dead

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia doesn’t see anything particularly Christian about a cross. It commemorates war dead equally, regardless of religion, thinks he.

Imagining his feelings about lying dead under one of these.
And here’s another place where Google and the internets lets me down. There are very few photos of Muslim cemeteries on the internet. I [...]

Observing Blasphemy Day

September 30th is Blasphemy Day.
Why September 30? The last day in September is the anniversary of the original publication of Danish cartoons in 2005 depicting the prophet Muhammad’s face. Any visual depiction of Muhammad is considered a grave offence under Islamic law.
International Blasphemy Day is a movement, not just a day, to [...]