Courage, cowardice, booming, and more

[unixronin]

Via libertarianhawk, two articles about drawing Mohammed, about why political correctness is cowardice, and about why a religion that says it is a noble act to attempt to blow up hundreds of innocent bystanders, including women and children, because you are offended by a cartoon, is a religion that does not deserve respect.

Via perspicuity, video and transcript (both NSFW language) about why BP's booming to contain oil in the Gulf of Mexico is an abject failure, because if you're a BP drilling hand or a BP drilling executive, booming is for pussies.

Via writerspleasure, Estonia (with its fully free-market economy) is doing better economically than Greece, and the Greek government admits that it falsified economic data for six years running to gain entry to the Eurozone, but says it's the EU's fault for not catching it.  In related news, "The car was just sitting there running", and "She was asking for it, dressed like that, Your Honor."

Comments

[hugh_mannity]

a religion that says it is a noble act to attempt to blow up hundreds of innocent bystanders, including women and children, because you are offended by a cartoon

To dismiss the whole of Islam because of a few nutjobs is on a par with dismissing the whole of Christianity based on the rantings of people like the Westboro Baptists, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, et al.

Every religion has its lunatic fringe and all lunatic fringes are tolerated to a greater or lesser extent by the parent religion.