PSoTD

For activities concerning illegal fireworks to hit the news:

California: Illegal fireworks found in Visalia home; teen arrested

Colorado: Fireworks illegal in Aurora

Connecticut: Police confiscate illegal fireworks

New Jersey: Seizures of fireworks are skyrocketing in N.J.

New York: As Fourth Of July Approaches, City Cracks Down On Fireworks

Wisconsin: Police plan crackdown on illegal fireworks displays

I think it's going to take a while to get used to these.

Next month I'm sure I'll see plenty of Javelinas on Parade.

Yeah, it might be the most entertaining thing about him ever, if he were to be sued for faking his own death. Of course, it might be the only entertaining thing about him ever, too.

If this is a publicity stunt, it's incredibly poor taste, even for rassling.

Sometimes fair things are written about the agnostic in the media, but largely, the agnostic viewpoint is ignored.

In self-righteous fervour, a fanatical atheist is about on par with a religious fanatic. Neither is a pretty sight. No faith-based crime, sin or stupidity escapes Hitchens's eye, no matter how microscopic, and no faith-based mystery, beauty or wisdom catches it, no matter how macrocosmic.

He's like a good shot who walks out to the range with his carefully calibrated and highly polished weapons, then demonstrates his skill by shooting fish in a barrel. Dead fish, actually, for the ones targeted by the eminent British-American journalist have been pumped full of holes before.

There's a big difference between knowing there is a God (the deist position), not knowing if there is a God (the agnostic position), and knowing there is no God (the atheist position). Of the three, two debate from an assumption of knowledge (the deist and the atheist) and one from an acknowledgement of ignorance (the agnostic). Because neither the deist nor the atheist can possibly know, they both operate from a delusion. Only the agnostic, who demonstrably does not know, has his feet on terra firma.

Of course, just because the agnostic stands on solid ground, while the deist and the atheist are delusional, doesn't necessarily mean that the former is right and the latter are wrong. To begin with, it would be hard for an agnostic to be right as one cannot win a race in which one isn't entered. However, it's possible to win a race even if one starts out on the wrong, or delusional, foot. There may well be a God even if the deist cannot possibly know it, just as there may be no God even if God's non-existence cannot have been vouchsafed to Hitchens.

I enjoy a good prank as much as anyone. On the other hand, there's a certain level of intelligence that is required for a prank, and if you don't have that level, you shouldn't be trying to commit pranks, because you clearly don't know the difference between a prank and a threat.

I'm all for giving kids the benefit of the doubt. I'm all for giving extreme dumbasses the benefit of jail time. It's unfortunate when kids are extreme dumbasses, but that's the way it goes. Criminal prosecution makes sense.