Concealed Neuroanatomy in Michelangelo’s Separation of Light From Darkness in the Sistine Chapel

Essentially, it says that Michaelangelo included a “hidden” depiction of the human brain stem in the depiction of God in the painting.   How long did those guys look at the painting?

It’s bridle path, not “bridal path”.  It’s a horse trail, more or less.  I’m a city boy and I know that.

“Maryiln Sewell: The religion you cite in your book is generally the fundamentalist faith of various kinds. I’m a liberal Christian, and I don’t take the stories from the scripture literally. I don’t believe in the doctrine of atonement (that Jesus died for our sins, for example). Do you make and distinction between fundamentalist faith and liberal religion?

“Christopher Hitchens: I would say that if you don’t believe that Jesus of Nazareth was the Christ and Messiah, and that he rose again from the dead and by his sacrifice our sins are forgiven, you’re really not in any meaningful sense a Christian.”

Shazam.  There it is.  On this point, I completely agree with Christopher Hitchens.

To All My Liberal Friends:  

Please accept with no obligation, implied or explicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all. I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2010, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great. Not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country nor the only America in the Western Hemisphere. Also, this wish is made without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishee.

To All My Conservative Friends:
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

• Service Merchandise
• Best Products
• Foley’s
• Circuit City
• Builder’s Square
• Goldsmith’s
• Mervyn’s
• Montgomery Ward
• Sanger-Harris
• Stripling & Cox
• Venture Stores
• TG&Y (I remember going here with my Grandmother)
• Incredible Universe
• McDuff Electronics
• Computer City
• Chess King
• KB Toys
• Just For Feet
• Tweeter
• Mott’s Five and Dime
• Woolworth (I remember going to the one in downtown Fort Worth)
• Levitz Furniture
• Tower Records
• Sound Warehouse (I got Luciano Pavarotti’s autograph at the one in OKC)
• Circus World
• Warner Brothers Studio Store
• Western Auto
• Suncoast Motion Picture Company
• Payless Cashways
• Eckerd Drug
• Kinney’s Shoes

Basically Obama gets the Nobel prize for a player to be named later.