Austin Cline has a post on Sylvia Browne. If she ever hits Britain, I'm going to perform a citizens arrest under the Fraudulent Mediums Act. 
I liked this article, even though I thought I wouldn't: Kuan Yin, Bertrand Russell and Why Atheist Spirituality is Not An Oxymoron. I'm slowly being convinced. It's possible, but I find it all rather contentless.
Om Malik is asking whether he should get a MacBook Pro. Give me two weeks and I'll be able to tell you.
Spiritual Values: My Hairy Balls 
The Guardian, who are being superbly hypocritical, have coverage of the protest over the cartoons. Best bit? Jack Straw saying "There is freedom of speech - we all respect that". Tuesday's vote showed exactly the opposite. Meanwhile, Ophelia demonstrates a use for Islamic theology after all and also gives Mr Straw a righteous slap. You know what I think should happen next? A Muslim version of Brokeback Mountain. Not only was Mohammed a terrorist, but he was a gay cowboy who made steamy bumlove to Jake Gyllenhall. As a side effect, it would get Christian fundies to go apeshit - again - over Hollywood "turning kids gay" (maybe the DVD bonus could be on why Intelligent Design is bollocks), and if Osama attacks again, it'll be Hollywood which gets it, not the Circle Line.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the president of Turkey, said: "Caricatures of prophet Muhammad are an attack against our spiritual values. There should be a limit of freedom of press". It is because they attack your spiritual values that we should defend the freedom of the press to the absolute hilt.
As a less respectable member of the "British press", I wish "to be gratuitously inflammatory" as well as to be "insulting", "insensitive" and "disrespectful". I wish to act in a way which should be considered as without "responsibility and sensitivity". And so, I shall point you to the cartoons. Go forth and multiply!
As a testament to the gutsiness of the Danes, a country which I adore having visited Copenhagen many years ago, I shall be attaching a Danish flag to my bag tommorow, and having a few moments with my good friends Hilarius Bookbinder, Johannes Climacus, Anti-Climacus and Johannes de Silentio over the next few days. Kierkegaard fought back against biting cartoons in The Corsair using the force of his intellect, not by threatening to blow himself up or behead people.
The reaction to these cartoons has shown what a humour-deprived religion Islam really is. And, of course, had these cartoons been published in Britain under the proposed Incitement bill, it's creators would be in a prison cell. That's why secularism matters absolutely.
