At least German women.

It seems to be opposite for men. I guess the women athletes will have to find non-athletic partners. Or other women, which would fit the stereotype, anyway…

Actually, I’d take it with a grain of salt. It offers zero data for either proposition–it’s just a trainer’s opinion.

Apparently unchastened by the last skirmish on the subject, and inspired by the latest hominid discovery in Chad, Susanna Cornett has reopened the ID versus evolution debate.

I don’t have time or inclination to weigh in this time, but fortunately, Razib K. and Charles Murtaugh have done so, probably better than I could hope to.

To me, though the money quote is the last one in Charles’ piece, that should give proponents of ID pause:

“bad arguments for God?s existence do more harm than good, since they give unbelievers an occasion to laugh.”

This may be the ultimate solution to spam.

And you thought that bloggers were wastrels of time.

For you robosexuals out there, check out these pictures of a Lego woman in provocative poses.

[via Paul Hsieh]

Alan Boyle, over at MSNBC, says that Lance Bass’ incredible adventure is back on track.

John Dingell’s primary victory in Michigan may have been the final blow for gun-control groups.

Some computer scientists in India have come up with a new and elegant method of determining if a number is prime. It’s deterministic, rather than the probabilistic methods presently used.

It probably won’t replace current methods in cryptography, though–it’s actually slower than standard numerical techniques.

The Palestinian “leaders” are telling the US that it’s “Arafat or chaos.”

Lee Harris, in a long but fascinating essay, says we aren’t at war with radical Islamists in the conventional sense. We should view them more as a virulent disease that must be wiped out. Despite the harsh sound of this in speaking about fellow human beings, it rings pretty true to me.

After all, as he says:

…Bush?s critics argued, the term ?evildoers? dehumanizes our enemy. And again, the critics are both right and wrong. Yes, the term does dehumanize our enemy. But this is only because our enemy has already dehumanized himself. A characteristic of fantasy ideology is that those in the throes of it begin by dehumanizing their enemies by seeing in them only objects to act upon. It is impossible to treat others in this way without dehumanizing oneself in the process. The demands of the fantasy ideology are such that it transforms all parties into mere symbols. The victims of the fantasy ideology inevitably end by including both those who are enacting the fantasy and those upon whom the fantasy is enacted ? both those who perished in the World Trade Center and those who caused them to perish; and, afterwards, both those who wept for the dead and those who rejoiced over the martyrs.

[via Charles Johnson]

Now the Saudis say that opposition to them in the US is being fomented by extreme Christians.

Well, at least they’re not trying to pin it all on the Jews this time…