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I ganked the image from Jewcy.com’s story about Barack Obama making “headlines by suggesting that public schools teach “age-appropriate,” “science-based” sexuality lessons to kindergarteners.”

This post is inspired by and dedicated to grooveadam.

I received the new translation of Malleus Maleficarum today. It is two volumes. The first volume includes a splended general introduction of almost two hundred pages — it is a history book in its own right — and the latin text. The second volume is the new English translation. The introduction noted, in its discussion of scholastic thought, that Aquinas determined “that while in his human incarnation Christ did eat like a regular person, his digestion worked differently and hence he did not shit.” ((21)) This determination by Aquinas was recapitulated in Malleus:

In Christ there was true eating in all respects, since He had the power of nourishment and conversion, though He did not convert it into His own body, since those virtues were, like His body, glorified, and as a result the food was instantly broken up in His body, as happens when someone throws water onto a fire.

(Jn Christo etiam fuit vera commestio in omnibus, quia habuit virtutem nutritiuam et conuersiuam, non autem conuertendo in suum corpus, quia ille virtutes fuerunt glorificate, sicut et corpus, vnde etiam resoluebatur cibus in corpore subito, sicut qui aquam in ignem proiceret.) ((107D))

What is really curious is that immediately after learning how Jesus didn’t shit we find a section titled: “How sorceresses practice carnal acts with incubus demons in the present day, and how they are increased in number as a result of these acts.” ((108A))

Now is that the sorceresses or the demons who are increased in number? And most important, do they shit or not?

Anchorage assemblyman Tesche says, “We don’t need cyclotrons operating out of back alleys, or in someone’s garage.”

Over at “Fermilab, Dixon oversees the world’s highest-energy collider, about four miles in circumference. It smashes matter and antimatter together so scientists can study the nature of energy. Dixon told Wired News that shielding from concrete walls or lead sheets is typically used to prevent the electrical beams produced by smaller cyclotrons from escaping.” Dixon noted, “Our neighbors here at Fermilab like us, but then, our particle accelerator is not installed in a living room.”

http://wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,69726,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1

Longmire does Romance Novels is hilarious. I highly recommend looking over the re-imagined romance novel covers. Enjoy.