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So, it's my impression that about a third of my friends list finds religion, either in general or specific, to be a very useful and good thing for them, about a third is more-or-less indifferent to it, and about a third is hostile to the ideas of it to some extend.

Oh, and that those thirds are NOT entirely disjoint sets -- there are people who like religion AND are indifferent to it AND are hostile to it. Um. I may be one of them, actually.

Anyway, this dance, which I got from vvalkyri, would be an example of one of the reasons I like religion.

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So the real question in the Zackie Achmat case is whether the Hague is allowed to take action against people who file frivolous genocide accusations.

If they're NOT allowed to do anything against people who bring random, pointless accusations of genocide, can we start just randomly accusing people of genocide? That might be fun! If the Hague does anything other than laugh at this, then it opens the door for all SORTS of things.

Let's make a list of the NEXT people we can accuse of genocide! Note that Anthony Brink and Matthias Rath don't count, because they are ACTUALLY trying to commit genocide, by preventing effective treatment of AIDS. So charging them wouldn't be frivolous. It has to be someone who absolutely ISN'T doing anything remotely genocidal, but who we still wouldn't mind sitting in the criminal court of the Hague.

The movie Stranger than Fiction -- hey, authors? What did YOU think?

So, Lis and I just got back from seeing the movie Stranger than Fiction and have been arguing about it since, which is generally a good sign for a movie -- we like movies which we have things to talk about after.

Obviously, this post will probably be spoilery, so I'll cut-tag it. But, for you writers who either have seen the movie, or have no intention of seeing the movie, I'm just wondering how YOU feel about some of this stuff:
( Spoilers contained within )