Below its mirth-killing pun of a title, this AFP article announces that Arctic Monkeys — an irrationally popular British rock band — think that the Live Earth series of environmentally-themed concerts is stratospherically stupid. If they had delivered that opinion to me in the form of one of their songs, I probably would have missed the remainder; but as it happens, I agree with them.

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On a typical day, a perusal through the front-page dregs of Digg.com will yield an abundance of posts on highly predictable topics. I refer, of course, not to technology issues (you must be thinking of Slashdot the 2005 version of Digg), but the mandatory anti-Bush posts; a daily prescription of environmentalist bromides; a fair measure of paranoid anti-corporatism; and, inevitably, the minefield of anti-theistic sophistry and exercises in intellectual self-congratulation. Each of these deserves its own post, but the volley of arrogant comments from atheists gets the hat-tip today.

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