Pat Robertson on natural disasters

Breaking news.

Sure. "Things fall apart--it's scientific!" (Talking Heads)

I thought only scientific splitters preferred individual boxes

Just an obscure, joking reference to my mental image after reading your post of Christians being stuffed, not into one box, but into many, and to the fact that those who sort out taxonomy tend to fall into one of two camps: those that tend to make maximal divisions (splitters) and those that tend to make minimal divisions (joiners or lumpers).Sorry for the lack of clarity.

Well done reading of signs and portents, Holmes. I expect Bush to become a pillar of salt, live on Fox, at any moment now.Just a nitpick, really, but I've always seen the increased frequency and fury of hurricanes hitting the southern U.S. as a divine response to the GOP Southern strategy of racial divide and conquer, the theft of the 2000 election, and the suppression of turnout in the 2004 election (all debatable, of course, but God and I know what really happened).Of course, anyone who sympathized with hostage-to-life Terri Schaivo might like to give Florida a good pounding as well.I once asked someone who promoted AIDS as divine punishment against gays why, then, are so many gay people talented and affluent? I left him muttering something about Satanic bargains...

S'ok, Jazzns: nobody will judge you harshly based on one failure- to-get-it.Heh heh.