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Most of the time, when someone gets mad at their boss and walks out, all they do is lose their job. It never makes the point you think it will. They just hire someone else and history forgets you.

Unless you take a lesson from the staff of Spartacus Books in Vancouver.

A $69.7 million compensation package and $98 million pension payout to Exxon Mobil Corp.’s former CEO Lee Raymond is drawing fire for being so excessive.

But the more important issue is: did someone pour water on him? He looks like he’s melting.

Probably more accurate than the real Homeland Security briefings.

Recently, the Gospel of Judas has been getting more publicity than a Paris Hilton video. Overall, the author’s of the Gospel of Judas recast the image we know of “the traitor” into one of Jesus’ favored apostles.

But I never understood why Judas was considered a traitor, with or without the information in the Gospel of Judas.

Here is what I’m curious about:
If Jesus went back to Jerusalem knowing he was going to die, then wasn’t Judas just fulfilling divine will? Why would that be considered to be bad?

If the basis of Christianity is that the death and resurrection of Jesus is what cleansed all sins, then couldn’t one say Judas did a good thing?

And, if Jesus was so feared by the Roman’s, then why did they have to pay Judas to identify Jesus?

I went to a private, Christian high school. When I would bring up questions like that, I’d often hear, “it’s not our place to question.” Personally, I took that as, “I don’t know, so stop pointing out that much of this doesn’t make sense.”

Astronomers have found a cloud of alcohol in deep space that measures 288 billion miles across.

In other news, Ted Kennedy is NASA’s newest and biggest supporter.

Mircosoft announced a delay in the release of Vista. Many theories as to why.

But, according to this video demo, Vista looks like an exact replica of the Mac OS.

And why not? When Apple’s machines will fully be able to run Window’s after the intel switch, Microsoft will be competing with the Mac OS directly. Then everyone will see just how terrible Windows is.