1. Bah, Hanukkah

Comment #94230 by TimH on December 5, 2007 at 4:04 am

Marvellous - there's nothing like a good Hitchins demolition job the first thing in the morning.

It's awful when astronomers work hard to find "explanations" for the star in the east - there's no need, it was simply made up.

2. Mother Teresa's '40-year faith crisis'

Comment #65639 by TimH on August 25, 2007 at 8:56 am

That's the saddest thing I ever read...if only she'd followed her intuition. I can only imagine what she could have accomplished by publically denouncing the Vatican's birth control policies. It's an opportunity missed, through lack of courage on her part.