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Certainly, faith in God has often been linked to patriotism in the US through the pledge of allegiance, which contains the words “I pledge allegiance to the flag…one nation under God.” But God is, in fact, a relative newcomer to the pledge and was only included in it because of a right-wing religious lobby’s efforts during the McCarthyite era.

Read the rest of the article here….

Another political cartoon is causing an uproar — there’s an excellent editorial here examining the cartoon in question and the motivations behind it.

More interesting Googlebomb bits: apparently the Church of Scientology figured out how to use it to their advantage. Some bloggers are working on combating this.

An interesting commentary on the flipside to Googlebombing (in response to these articles).

A pair of articles that I wanted to comment on, but don’t have time to right now. Very interesting reading, though, especially if you read or write a weblog (such as this one), or if you use Google for your searches.

• Google ♥ Blogs: How Weblogs Influence A Billion Google Searches A Week
• Google Time Bomb: Will Weblogs blow up the world’s favorite search engine?

Just something amusing Tom sent me.

He’s a hate-fuelled misogynist stage actor from the Mississippi delta. She’s a transdimensional red-headed nun who hides her beauty behind a pair of thick-framed spectacles. They fight crime!

Once I know I’ve got the funds settled for both the move and my June trip to Alaska for James and Stacy’s wedding, I’m getting at least one of these. Probably one of the BSOD-t’s and the Mac Bomb-t.

I found this at Unamerican. Very cool site.

Okay, I’ve spent some more time bouncing around the site, and I really don’t want to say nothing except ‘very cool site’ — that’d be doing it such a disservice. I haven’t even done much more than skim over most of the site — there’s a ton of stuff to read — but I’ve gone over the catalog of shirts and stickers, and I want to order one of each of the shirts, and about five of each of the stickers. Seriously. I could think of so many places to put so many of these stickers. They’re great.

So head over there, check it out. Buy me stuff. :D Buy yourself stuff. Or just look and get a giggle at some of the stuff there. It’s cool.

There’s also some very interesting — and very frightening — stuff to be found in the links from the site. Such as this column on ‘Homeland Security’ checkpoints being set up. I haven’t been as paranoid as some people I’ve met…but stuff like this really makes me wonder.

Dad might find this interesting — it seems the USAF is going to be adding a laser weapon to his old airplane, the “Spectre” AC-130 gunship. My sci-fi toys are catching up to dad’s Air Force years…kinda cool and kinda scary at the same time.

I gotta say, this is really cool.