Not an Onion article, really

http://wonkette.com/403920/jesus-people-pray-that-false-idol-will-save-gods-economy

...a Day of Prayer for the World’s Economies on Wednesday, October 29, 2008. They are calling for prayer for the stock markets, banks, and financial institutions of the world on the date the stock market crashed in 1929. They are meeting at the New York Stock Exchange, the Federal Reserve Bank, and its 12 principal branches around the US that day.

“We are going to intercede at the site of the statue of the bull on Wall Street to ask God to begin a shift from the bull and bear markets to what we feel will be the 'Lion’s Market,' or God’s control over the economic systems,” she said. “While we do not have the full revelation of all this will entail, we do know that without intercession, economies will crumble.”

Um, I'm not a Christian, and even I've read as far as Exodus in their Bible:

32:7 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go down, because your people, whom you brought up out of Egypt, have become corrupt. 8 They have been quick to turn away from what I commanded them and have made themselves an idol cast in the shape of a calf. They have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and have said, 'These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.'

9 "I have seen these people," the LORD said to Moses, "and they are a stiff-necked people. 10 Now leave me alone so that my anger may burn against them and that I may destroy them.

What were they thinking?!?

Not an Onion article, really

http://wonkette.com/403920/jesus-people-pray-that-false-idol-will-save-gods-economy

...a Day of Prayer for the World’s Economies on Wednesday, October 29, 2008. They are calling for prayer for the stock markets, banks, and financial institutions of the world on the date the stock market crashed in 1929. They are meeting at the New York Stock Exchange, the Federal Reserve Bank, and its 12 principal branches around the US that day.

“We are going to intercede at the site of the statue of the bull on Wall Street to ask God to begin a shift from the bull and bear markets to what we feel will be the 'Lion’s Market,' or God’s control over the economic systems,” she said. “While we do not have the full revelation of all this will entail, we do know that without intercession, economies will crumble.”

Um, I'm not a Christian, and even I've read as far as Exodus in their Bible:

32:7 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go down, because your people, whom you brought up out of Egypt, have become corrupt. 8 They have been quick to turn away from what I commanded them and have made themselves an idol cast in the shape of a calf. They have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and have said, 'These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.'

9 "I have seen these people," the LORD said to Moses, "and they are a stiff-necked people. 10 Now leave me alone so that my anger may burn against them and that I may destroy them.

What were they thinking?!?

Boston Drivers and Halloween

I long ago observed that an empirical 'rule' that most Boston drivers seem to follow is "Right of Way goes to the entity with the most momentum". An 18-wheeler has the right of way pretty much if it's moving at all. A car normally yields to a van, but not if the van is still trying to get up to speed. Pedestrians win over already-stopped cars, but not moving ones. And so on.

But there are some special cases. On the evening of October 31, the roads are full of entities with small mass, but which are vibrating at extremely high speeds due to sugar rush. Even individually, their momentum is impressive. But they're not individual, they travel in packs, so have to be considered collectively. Days like this make me glad I take public transit; I pass a lot of cars on my way home that are moving slower than my walking speed.

Drive safe!

Boston Drivers and Halloween

I long ago observed that an empirical 'rule' that most Boston drivers seem to follow is "Right of Way goes to the entity with the most momentum". An 18-wheeler has the right of way pretty much if it's moving at all. A car normally yields to a van, but not if the van is still trying to get up to speed. Pedestrians win over already-stopped cars, but not moving ones. And so on.

But there are some special cases. On the evening of October 31, the roads are full of entities with small mass, but which are vibrating at extremely high speeds due to sugar rush. Even individually, their momentum is impressive. But they're not individual, they travel in packs, so have to be considered collectively. Days like this make me glad I take public transit; I pass a lot of cars on my way home that are moving slower than my walking speed.

Drive safe!