Culture, ‘Cumenism & Ma-Ma Ku-sa!

Ya know? … I dunno.

God help me.

Like a natural woman

Repliee Q1 is a robot that looks just like a woman. It gestures, blinks, speaks, breathes, and contains internal sensors so it can react to things “naturally.” As amazing as this technology is, even its co-creator Hiroshi Ishiguru of Osaka University gets weirded out by it: “When a robot looks too much like the real thing, it’s creepy.”

H/T: World

GetReligion plugged this story the other day about Vanity Plates. Seems that in the state of Vermont religious plates are not allowed. Good heavens. When will this nuttiness about the so-misunderstood separation of Church & State end? In fact, since cars are registered, taxed, inspected, etc … Maybe it’s only a matter of time before bumper stickers meet with State disapproval?
H/T: GetReligion

Regular readers know that I rarely listen to commercial radio, don’t watch TV, and have eclectic tastes in secular music — from Handel to Prince; George Clinton to George Strait. Recently I blogged about the fabulous return of Al Green. Though I bought some Kiss & Aerosmith back in the day, I’ve never been much of a Rock fan. But if it’s good, I’m not partial to genre. And this, the latest from the White Stripes, is artsy, grungy, garage band … good. It might be loud (parents). But it’s good & loud.
H/T: Thunderstruck

Jim Kushiner over at Mere Comments provides a Reality Check concerning the omnipresent hoopla about B16 and Ortho-RC union.

Rosie O’Donnell likes to eat, but can’t stomach breast feeding!
H/T: Fr John

Have you heard of the Legal Guide for Bloggers?

Too grisly for Words [WARNING]
A Kansas City abortionist is out of business after investigators discovered a grisly house of horrors at his clinic; with fetuses kept in Styrofoam cups in his refrigerator and one employee accusing him of microwaving one and stirring it into his lunch. Whole Story
H/T: Drudge

Michael Jackson. As stated a while back, they should imprison the whacko parents that let their children sleep with him. I maintained throughout that he would not be going to prison. I mean, if you could be isolated and punished for being weird, well … he’s already serving Life. Anyway, after the Not Guilty Verdict, a commentator at World had this to say:

“It proves there is a God but He is just different and ‘more child like’ than the rest of us.”
H/T: World