Flying is Dying

AlterNet: By George Monbiot. “All over Britain, a coalition of homeowners and anarchists, NIMBYs and internationalists is mustering to fight the greatest future cause of global warming: the growth of aviation.”

Cheney accidentally shoots fellow hunter

cheney_shoots.jpg Yahoo! News: Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and wounded a companion during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas, spraying the fellow hunter in the face and chest with shotgun pellets. Harry Whittington, a millionaire attorney from Austin, was “alert and doing fine” in a Corpus Christi hospital Sunday after he was shot by Cheney on a ranch in south Texas, said Katharine Armstrong, the property’s owner.

Litter tax proposed for fast-food places

OAKLAND: “Fed up with kids dropping burger wrappers, beverage cups and french fry cartons on the streets and sidewalks surrounding the city’s schools, the Oakland City Council is poised to take the unprecedented step of taxing fast-food joints and convenience stores to help clean up the mess.”

Ebert’s Best 10 Movies of 2005

rogerebert.com: Crash, Syriana, Munich, Junebug, Brokeback Mountain, Me and You and Everyone we Know, Nine Lives, King Kong, Yes, Millions.

Also rans: The Best of Youth, Broken Flowers, Cinderella Man: Downfall, Duane Hopwood, Good Night, and Good Luck, Match Point, North Country, The New World, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, Pride & Prejudice, The Ballad of Jack and Rose, Batman Begins, Bee Season, Cache, Capote, The Constant Gardener, Fear and Trembling, Firecracker, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Head-On, A History of Violence, Hustle & Flow, Last Days, Lord of War, The Memory of a Killer, The Merchant of Venice, Mysterious Skin, Oldboy, Palindromes, Proof, Saraband, Schultze Gets the Blues, Shopgirl, Sin City, The Squid and the Whale, The Upside of Anger, Turtles Can Fly, Walk the Line, The World, Grizzly Man, Aliens of the Deep, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Gunner Palace, March of the Penguins, Murderball, No Direction Home: Bob Dylan, Tell Them Who You Are, Touch the Sound, The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride, Robots, Off the Map, The Weather Man, Keane, Duma, The Woodsman.

David Hume on religion

“Survey most nations and most ages. Examine the religious principles, which have, in fact, prevailed in the world. You will scarcely be persuaded, that they are any thing but sick men’s dreams: Or perhaps will regard them more as the playsome whimsies of monkies in human shape, than the serious, positive, dogmatical asseverations of a being, who dignifies himself with the name of rational.”

(Via Pharyngula.)