People have been burning dung for fuel since the paleolithic.

The Greeks had better spend their law enforcement powers to catch tax evaders, not faith evaders.

"The earth is warming because Hell is getting closer" that is most likely wrong (although a scientifically minded would choose "unproven" rather than wrong), but would you argue with the Hell is getting closer because the earth is warming?

I presume this was nothing compared to what his wife did to him later.

You're right, we all long for the brilliant competence of Bush, Rumsfeld and Rice. Very smart people indeed. Let's hope Palin comes in and puts some competence back.

your religious analogy needs some work as a ZX Spectrum I always saw the C64 with a mix of envy and skepticism: true that it did represent the superiority of America's technological power over good-old Europe (and the sprites were really cool), but the ingenuity it took Sinclair and the ZX programmers to squeeze so much in so little and for something a kid could afford made it the true believer's choice (while C64 was for the rich hollywood stars who needed to distinguish themselves from the crowds).

imaginary numbers do exist in finance: they call them subprime mortgages in banking jargon.

homeopathy is not healing method, it's a tax on the mentally impaired who go to a pharmacy and buy sugar pills. i fail to see any spiritual endeavour (expect for the marketing gurus behind it).

i think the lecture took place in Canada. ps: Why did you stop at Mexicans what about Mayans, Guatemalans, Guaranyans, Quechuans, Incans, Aymarans, Mapuches, Inuit, etc.? They're American too.

use them as shooting targets?

You don't get it. And that's good, because if you did understand it, you would be an Italian, living under the freely elected neofascist government of Silvio Berlusconi. That's the whole point of this law. The Italian right-wingoes (best Eurofriends of former USA president George Bush, but the way, for their anticommie, antiarab and antidarkguys instincts) are on the move to protect themselves from all those skeletons in the closet.

atmosphere CO2 -> feeds trees -> feed paper plants -> feed phone-book production -> stored in houses/underground

Anglophones are not the only people afflicted by inconsistent spelling. The Francophones have their lot of trouble as well. "La Dictée" is something any French-speaking kid is tortured with in schools to redress the failings of their tongue's orthography, yet, with all probabilities a French is bound to make spelling mistakes as abundant as North Americans do. There is no strict equivalent of the "spelling bees" in France, but there is "La Dictée" by Bernard Pivot, whereby he recited the text on TV for the French to write the text and then the correction was done live for everybody to check their results. Same idea but in a more "egalité"-rian spirit. Also there are spelling championships, which make the "Scripps Bee" pale in comparison, but more directed to adults and open to all nationalities (not only French natives).

So you think Eurovision is more fun?

That's harsh. I thought school punishment was reserved for believing the Selection of Species is the only valid scientific explanation for our existence.