Monday Moaning
I've come down with the stomach flu. It's not nearly as bad as the bronchitis/flu/plague thing I had earlier this month (thank goodness), but highly unpleasant: Playing both ends of the court, mild headache, chills. I'm the seventh person in my house to catch it in seven days. Only Alex (14) and Tess (2) haven't come down with it. Tess assures us she caught it last week, too, but we're suspect. She saw that sick kids got unlimited TV watching and 7-Up, then suddenly she became sick. Wanted a wash cloth for the head, a blanket on the couch, etc., but within 45 minutes she was bouncing around and laughing. That hasn't been the track the rest of us have taken with this thing, but it does appear to be a short-lived ailment.
Fortunately, I had some material ready to roll for Monday morning, which I went ahead and finished Sunday evening during a post-hurl reprise.
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The director of a Norwegian museum claimed yesterday to have discovered Disney cartoons drawn by Adolf Hitler during the Second World War. It appears the Fuhrer was partial to the seven dwarves: Bashful, Doc, Gentile, and Hebe-hater.
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A group of researchers from the University of Oxford will spend $3.9 million on a three-year study to “explain” why humanity believes in God. Roger Trigg, a senior research fellow at the Center, said the almost $4 million would be used to respond to the question, “What is it that is innate in human nature to believe in God, whether it is gods or something superhuman or supernatural?" The answer: It is innate to believe in something that exists. Cultures everywhere believe in trees and dirt, love and hate, the sun and moon. Why this innate belief in such things? Because they exist.
Please make the $4 million check payable to Eric Scheske, c/o of his wife, who'll use it to buy other things people innately believe in, like food, clothes, and household repairs.
4 Responses to “Monday Moaning”
February 25th, 2008 at 8:12 am
Ill undercut the whole thing. For an even million, Ill do a study to find out why people believe in studies.
February 25th, 2008 at 11:41 am
I have no doubt the researchers will discover some gene or brain chemical they can point to that they now *officially* suspect might be associated with with religious belief… or that they are at least confident can’t be proved absolutely unassociated with it.
In other words, they’ll find nothing except a new way to air out their own personal theories. They will definitely discover a new round of brainless chat shows to frequent. They may even discover a hidden publishing contract in there somewhere.
February 25th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
It’s the norovirus…epidemic in town. Our family passed it around last week. Fortunately, it’s only one day of down time and a day or two of being very tired.
February 25th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Hope you feel better.
I loved your response and the other comments. Here is mine. They should spend the money on why Hitler liked Disney cartoons instead of God. It would make a better book, since that usually is the result of such studies-eventual profits.