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Pious–aggressive behavior

2011-12-03T12:46:00.001-08:00

Pious–aggressive behavior: A personality trait, which is passive, sometimes obstructionist resistance to reason in the face of losing a religious debate. It is a personality trait marked by a pervasive pattern of pompous religiosity and passive, usually disavowed, resistance to logic, reason, and facts in religious debate situations.

It can manifest itself as denial, stubbornness, resentment, sullenness, or deliberate/repeated failure to use logic and reason where one would normally be the case.

The primary manifestation of this personality disorder is use of the term "I'll pray for you" followed by rapid closure of all debate. In particularly bad manifestations, fleeing the room has been observed.

Psychologists debate whether it is curable outside of a significant life-altering event, actual study of the bible, or shock therapy.

The most dangerous Koala on Earth.

2011-10-06T12:11:00.000-07:00

Source: National Geographic Koala.

2011-08-25T15:36:00.001-07:00

68% of vegetarians are women (1992 data).

2011-08-25T13:57:00.001-07:00

Both Canada's Northwest Passage and Russia's Northern Sea Route are open for business. #globalwarming

2011-08-24T16:59:00.001-07:00

DEMOCRACY NOT CORPORATOCRACY http://ping.fm/6UL2d #Occupywallstreet

2011-08-24T16:21:00.001-07:00

Steve Jobs can "no longer meet...duties and expectations as Apple's CEO". Steps down.

2011-08-24T15:40:00.001-07:00

Hmmm. Anyone else see a problem here? "Were calling today...for a moratorium on ALL regulations, across the country"- Dick Perry

2011-08-24T13:55:00.001-07:00

3 things Tweens can teach us: Indulge in life. Be more affectionate. Laugh out loud.

2011-08-23T15:37:00.001-07:00

Oh look. Facebook discovers people like their privacy options after Google+. #gofigure http://ping.fm/dV1AJ

2011-08-23T15:09:00.001-07:00

Sprint to get iPhone 5. #androidisdead ;-)

2011-08-23T15:06:00.001-07:00

Today was National Go Topless Day. How in the hell did I miss this memo?

2011-08-23T14:46:00.001-07:00

Apparently God hates the National Cathedral and Ecuadorians. Go figure. #dcquake

2011-08-23T11:21:00.001-07:00

Mineral, Virginia #Earthquake revised up to 5.9.

2011-08-23T11:02:00.001-07:00

5.8 Earthquake in Virginia!

2011-08-23T11:00:00.001-07:00

Boeing successfully deployed a swarm of drone aircraft. #Skynet is pleased. http://ping.fm/ok416

2011-08-22T17:13:00.001-07:00

"Social Security is a failure" - Rick Perry's Book "Fed Up", 2010

2011-08-22T16:24:00.001-07:00

People, not rats, were responsible for the Black Death http://ping.fm/31TAG #plague #zombies

2011-08-17T10:51:00.001-07:00

Congress looking at legalizing online casinos to get at the tax monies. (!) #duh http://ping.fm/QFGXA

2011-08-16T15:58:00.001-07:00

“To be a fundamentalist, you have to have a book. And you have to forget the book has a history.” - R. Joseph Hoffmann

2011-08-11T15:22:00.001-07:00

To evaporate a stock market, all it takes is a box of Teabags.

2011-08-11T14:50:00.001-07:00

"Corporations are people, my friend... of course they are." - #Romney #clueless

2011-08-10T16:40:00.001-07:00

"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts." - Daniel Patrick Moynihan

2011-08-10T15:43:00.001-07:00

If Apple is now the most valuable company in America, can we stop subsidizing the big oil companies? #green #apple

2011-07-07T14:12:00.001-07:00

"Hell's nail salon", aka Barbara Walter's "The View" - Valleywag. Okay that was damn funny.

2011-07-06T07:56:00.001-07:00

Every day, people write the equivalent of a 10,000 page book on Twitter. 140 characters at a time.

2011-06-17T12:55:00.001-07:00

Gay rights are human rights and human rights are gay rights. - H. Clinton (UN passed Gay Rights Resolution today!)

2011-06-07T13:59:00.001-07:00

Obama remains the first president since Eisenhower to have never seen his Gallup approval rating drop below 40 percent - Nate Silver

2011-06-06T10:30:00.001-07:00

"Internal Customer" just asked for a proposal in 30 min. It's official, computerization/the internet has made SOME people lose their minds.

2011-05-25T13:10:00.001-07:00

Measles is at 15 year high. #screwyoujennymccarthy

2011-05-24T13:48:00.001-07:00

You can put a cat in a box, but then you won't know whether it's actually alive or not. - Zanzan42

2011-05-03T15:58:00.001-07:00

"How many more gay people does God have to create before we ask ourselves if he wants them around?" - Congressman Steve Simon

2011-04-26T15:34:00.001-07:00

25th Anniversary of Chernobyl. Ironic.

2011-04-26T14:48:00.001-07:00

One of my pet peeves is that children cannot get real chemistry sets now....eg....http://ping.fm/QJ0E4 GAH!

2011-04-25T11:17:00.001-07:00

TX Gov asks for prayer over record drought. Fighting EPA over greenhouse gases. Wait, what? Don't the gods help those that help themselves?

2011-04-21T12:43:00.001-07:00

At last! How to solve the oil crisis! http://ping.fm/XfCyG

2011-04-21T10:13:00.001-07:00

Earth Day tomorrow. Time to replace some light bulbs with high-efficiency bulbs! They last longer as well.

2011-04-21T10:11:00.001-07:00

Holy Crap! Parts of Alaska permafrost are collapsing into the ocean at a rate of 100-feet per year, due to warming. http://ping.fm/pqTDz

2011-04-21T09:51:00.003-07:00

Fukushima, Chernobyl, Nevada Test Site, Hanford, Semipalatinsk, etc. I wonder if they should be called "World Sacrifice Zones"?

2011-04-21T09:51:00.001-07:00

Japan has ordered a mandatory 12 mile evacuation zone around Fukushima reactors for civilians. Another "National Sacrifice Zone" begun?

2011-04-20T15:35:00.001-07:00

Neanderthals may have had spiritual beliefs before us: http://ping.fm/ZNVaH

2011-04-14T11:57:00.001-07:00

Objectivism is “nearly perfect in its immorality" - Gore Vidal

2011-04-13T11:38:00.001-07:00

All the BS last week, NPR stays the same, and the EPA was cut. Huh? We'll take "Radio over Shitting in Our Air and Water" for $1.6B, Alex.

2011-04-11T13:21:00.001-07:00

Oh look! The GOP may have a real nominee, and he's a Morman. Right now, ALL tossup states would have to break for him to beat Obama. Yeah.

2011-04-08T08:47:00.001-07:00

"Peak oil" may have just gotten moved back 3.5 times whatever estimated date you like: http://ping.fm/MBH9a

2011-04-01T14:34:00.001-07:00

Leading Economist puts 50 years of oil left. http://ping.fm/78tvL #peakoil

2011-04-01T14:11:00.001-07:00

If the editors of Cosmo did the cover of Guns & Ammo: http://ping.fm/W5YvC #awesomeness

2011-04-01T14:08:00.001-07:00

"Tiger Mom" Amy Chua's daughter has been accepted to Harvard. *Snap*

2011-04-01T13:55:00.001-07:00

Bot shows signs of consciousness. Skynet doesn't care. http://ping.fm/UiLBn

2011-03-29T21:44:00.001-07:00

If your going to post make it interesting. Am I right? Oh, wait.

2011-03-29T17:55:00.001-07:00

Let's see how this goes.

2011-03-29T17:52:00.001-07:00

Let's see how this goes.

2011-03-28T17:17:00.001-07:00

“...the old-timers knew that subprime mortgages were called neutron loans - they killed the people and left the houses” Louis Barnes #QOTD

2011-03-28T16:26:00.001-07:00

Hmmm. Will Fukushima be declared a "International Sacrifice Zone" someday? http://ping.fm/D5gVg

2011-03-28T12:19:00.001-07:00

Two new nuclear reactors approved for Georgia. Hee hee. http://ping.fm/LipKI

2011-03-23T15:23:00.001-07:00

China has genetically modified 200 cows to produce human milk. "Baby Gaga Ice Cream"....it's baaaaack. LOL

2011-03-21T14:37:00.001-07:00

QOTD: "Freedom bombs continue to rain down upon Libya today..." - Valleywag

2011-03-21T12:36:00.001-07:00

Why is it that "Murphy's Laws of Combat Operations" is SO true to my line of business? #rhetoricalquestion #consultingblows

2011-03-17T15:16:00.001-07:00

Hawking: Philosophy is dead. Answer: Long live Philosophy (of Science)! http://ping.fm/RWbZi

2011-03-17T13:23:00.001-07:00

Will the oceans rich a "Peak Fish" condition in 2050? http://ping.fm/0odQS

2011-03-10T13:03:00.001-08:00

Happy 235th birthday to Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations". Mercantilism BOOO! Capitalism YAY!

2011-03-09T15:31:00.001-08:00

Tyrannosaurus shit. Both as a verb and a noun. http://ping.fm/oKypX

2011-03-08T13:54:00.001-08:00

Supersecret Mini-space shuttle mission possibly exposed? #conspiracyfreaksrun! http://ping.fm/GLY2R

2011-03-08T11:58:00.001-08:00

10,000 cargo containers are lost to the oceans PER YEAR. #green http://ping.fm/UVAR4

2011-03-07T16:28:00.001-08:00

Rare original King James Bible found. Still a crap translation. http://ping.fm/w55S4

2011-03-07T15:39:00.001-08:00

Less than half of all adults can name the four Gospels; only one-third can name five of the Ten Commandments. - Timothy Beal

2011-03-07T14:04:00.001-08:00

Egyptians stormed the State Security Services and stopped them from destroying evidence of crimes against humanity. http://ping.fm/VwZ5F

2011-03-07T12:09:00.001-08:00

Aussie earthquake mapped from space. #infoporn http://ping.fm/8Zv5y

2011-03-07T12:06:00.001-08:00

GOP Governor Walker disapproval rating is at 45% (insane bad). Buh Bye 2012. By contrast Obama's is at 26% with a 53% approval rating.

2011-03-07T11:36:00.001-08:00

Enviro-friendly method of body disposal? Deep freeze, shatter with sound, put in vacuum to release water (75% of body), bury in box.

2011-03-04T14:57:00.001-08:00

Texas proposed a TOUGH anti-illegal immigrant hiring bill...unless they're a maid, gardener, or other houseworker. Wow. #speechless

2011-03-04T14:51:00.001-08:00

The Mor-men suspended a star BYU basketball player for having sex. Utah is still the #1 State in online porn subscriptions. Yeah.

2011-03-04T14:38:00.001-08:00

TSA plans to end one-size-fits-all security measures. I'll believe THAT when I stop being groped.

2011-03-04T13:09:00.001-08:00

French man arrested for stealing 240,000 very valuable oysters. How shellfish of him.

2011-03-04T13:04:00.001-08:00

"...I compared Wisconsin to a North African country. Now I think that comparison is unfair to North African countries." - Elie Mystal #quote

2011-03-04T10:54:00.001-08:00

"Frying Nemo" is trending on Twitter. That is damn funny.

2011-03-03T17:02:00.001-08:00

Valuation of Earth is set at $5 quadrillion. I say we set up a PayPal account to buy it. http://ping.fm/gTwGs

2011-03-03T14:42:00.001-08:00

Americans are Climate Change skeptics. Ugandan farmers that live on the rain being consistent? Not so much! http://ping.fm/cNDS3

2011-03-03T14:38:00.001-08:00

Welcome to the Sixth Great Extinction. Imagine 3/4 of all life you can see outside, right now, gone. Yeah. http://ping.fm/SMNRa

2011-03-03T14:12:00.001-08:00

Eastern Cougar extinct. Lovely. #fail http://ping.fm/B47Or

2011-03-03T13:34:00.001-08:00

Parents. If you have 4 kids, statistically, 3 of them will have had sex by the age of 20. Yeah. Better have that condom talk...sooner.

2011-03-03T13:32:00.001-08:00

Nearly EVERYONE in America has had sex before they were married. All the way back to the 1940s. #duh http://ping.fm/803ov

2011-03-03T09:34:00.001-08:00

65 years health study of 16,695 Brits. Fascinating findings! http://ping.fm/zekXO

2011-03-03T09:22:00.001-08:00

Costco has pledged only to sell Sustainable Seafood! YAY for Costco!

2011-03-03T09:21:00.001-08:00

I so rarely get to say this. I am PROUD of California! #evolution http://ping.fm/CKmYq

2011-03-03T09:18:00.001-08:00

The First Rule of Fight Club is...don't tell thy f*cking aunt. http://ping.fm/3GtZG

2011-03-03T08:54:00.001-08:00

The guy that foreclosed on Wells Fargo tells how he did it. He is NOT an attorney. Awesome. http://ping.fm/YSNLO

2011-03-03T08:33:00.001-08:00

Maersk has started construction on the biggest container ship...ever. Methinks they are bullish on the economy a few years from now.

2011-03-02T15:31:00.001-08:00

PayPal unscrews itself and allow donations to wikileaks.

2011-03-02T14:04:00.001-08:00

The inflation-adjusted value of America’s manufacturing output in 2009 was 120 percent higher than it was in 1970.

2011-03-02T13:59:00.001-08:00

The value of U.S. manufacturing output is nearly 30 percent higher than that of China, the worlds 2nd-ranked country in manufactured output?

2011-03-02T09:42:00.001-08:00

Unions, such as they are, one of the few remaining vestiges of a middle class way of life, in an age of stagnant wages...- Kevin Carson

2011-03-02T09:41:00.001-08:00

Walker wants to break public sector unions not out of any principled attachment to free markets, but because they’re unions. - Kevin Carson

2011-03-01T16:23:00.001-08:00

Bwahahaha! Fox News will not be in Canada because of "a licenser may not broadcast ... any false or misleading news" law. http://ping.fm/FkCVL

2011-03-01T14:22:00.001-08:00

Republicans rid House Cafeteria of biodegradable food/drink containers, and brought in...styrofoam. Teddy Roosevelt just grave rolled. Asses

2011-03-01T12:26:00.001-08:00

New independent nonpolitical nonpartisan group to gather climate data, analyze, and present data and results, sans-spin http://bit.ly/g2EXJX

2011-03-01T10:54:00.001-08:00

Well, thank the gods! Supreme Court rules corporations do NOT have a right to privacy under FOIA (even if they are "persons"). Go figure.

2011-03-01T10:44:00.001-08:00

China creates tractor beam. Death Star is next. http://ping.fm/H5Sgn

2011-03-01T10:43:00.001-08:00

News Corp (Fox) is now Carbon Neutral. Wait, what? http://ping.fm/bA4jT

2011-02-28T15:51:00.001-08:00

Excellent. A small nuclear war could offset global warming! Of course, the Nuclear Winter would be worse, but then what do scientists know?

2011-02-28T15:07:00.001-08:00

GMO takes sunlight, water, and CO2 and craps diesel. If this scales up, wow! http://ping.fm/PVhHf