stoopid ego-driven google meme....

That I feel compelled to participate in, if only because ashamel and deborahb have already done it.

Type your name into google with the word "is" attached, thus: "Name is". Return your ten favourite results.


Iain is cool

Iain is a regular face on our TV screens, particularly on Sky News and BBC News 24

Iain is supported by a wide range of people across the political spectrum

Iain is adept at layering each story

Iain is a prolific author

Iain is the reason I became a Christian, for which I will always be grateful.

IAIN is a non-governmental, non-profit making. organisation with the objective
of uniting national and. multinational institutes and organisations

Iain is obsessed with Neil Armstrong

iain is currently executive producer of 'spygame'with brad pitt

Iain is back in Ukraine!


(lies, all lies...)

But these ones are accurate:

Iain is acutely aware of his difficulties with self-expression

Iain is felled by a swift blow to the neck from Michael and pinned down by Clare

Atheism-lite

Questions of belief and tolerance of other's belief systems have been obsessing me lately (ferkster and I are working on a play about it right now.) I was interested in this article by Dylan Evans which posited a kind of halfway position where atheists could appreciate some aspects of religious belief without accepting the literal truth of, say, the Bible.

Salman Rushdie has written a very good rebuttal of Evan's position.

My favourite line:

Intelligent design, an idea designed backward so as to force the antique idea of a Creator upon the beauty of creation, is so thoroughly rooted in pseudoscience, so full of false logic, so easy to attack that a little rudeness seems called for.

My word for today

(It pays to increase my word power - I'm trying to make a conscious effort now to look up words I don't understand as soon as I come across them)

Autochthonic - adj : originating where it is found; "the autochthonal fauna of Australia includes the kangaroo"; "autochthonous rocks and people and folktales"; "endemic folkways"; "the Ainu are indigenous to the northernmost islands of Japan" [syn: autochthonal, autochthonous, endemic, indigenous]

(from: Dictionary.Reference.Com)