Feelin' extra cynical and disgusted about some things this morning...So the Republican party thinks it can "win back" control of Congress from the Democrats in this year's election.How does that matter? Really... how does that matter?I have been observing politics for most of my life. I'll admit that once upon a time I did believe that there were fundamental differences between the Democrats and Republicans and that those were "the only" parties...
Friday, January 15, 2010
Thursday, January 14, 2010
A thought before signing off for the night...
Honk if you love Jesus. Text while driving if you want to meet Him in pers...
British government finally apologizes for Thalidomide
Fifty years after Thalidomide was taken off the market in Great Britain, that country's government is finally owning up to its role in one of the most horrific disasters of modern medicine.Thalidomide was a drug approved to combat the symptoms of morning sickness in pregnant women. And when I say "approved" I mean that the British government didn't perform proper tests on...
8-year old Cub Scout is on TSA's terrorist watch list
In today's performance of "Security Theatre", it's 8-year old Mikey Hicks of New Jersey: a Cub Scout who is on the Transportation Security Administration's terrorism watch list.Mikey has been on the list since the age of 2, when he was first examined by TSA goons to see if he was carrying any explosives, guns or stabbing weapons. And Mikey doesn't appreciate his constant...
General Larry Platt sings "Pants on the Ground"
I've given up on American Idol, and not because this is Simon Cowell's final season (and if you ask me, Simon is among the most brilliant minds working in entertainment today). So I didn't see "Pants on the Ground", the original song performed on last night's show by 62-year old civil rights activist General Larry Platt of Atlanta.But having seen it now... I can't get it out of my head!!Here it is: "Pants on the Ground"!If American Idol had allowed...
Obama sending $100 million to Haiti... and why he's very wrong to do so
Haiti is still reeling from a 7.3 earthquake two days ago that destroyed Port-au-Prince. A half-million people there or more might be dead in the rubble. The tiny island nation was already one of the world's poorest economies and even that has been shattered beyond belief.This is very much one of the worst natural disasters of modern memory. Some are saying that the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami pales in comparison.As I wrote here yesterday, our thoughts...
Steve Ballmer celebrates 10 years as Microsoft CEO
It was ten years ago yesterday that Steve Ballmer succeeded Bill Gates as the CEO of Microsoft.Mash down here for the story at Slashdot.In honor of the occasion, software developers around the world will be throwing chairs across the rooms of their workplac...
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
CIVIL WAR-style Leno/Conan banners!
Inspired by Marvel Comics' "Civil War" storyline from a few years ago, I made these banners that you can put on your own blog or website or whatever declaring whose side you are on! Yes, it has come to this: the entire western world dividing up into Team Leno and Team Conan. There are natural disasters across the globe and corrupt politicians taking us for a ride......
Same chemical composition... but different structure
How the heck is the chemical notation for a formula like this thing gonna wind up?!
From the abstract at the Royal Society of Chemistry's website...Usually, you'd expect two compounds with the same composition, atom-to-atom connectivity and symmetry to be chemically identical too. But scientists investigating metal-organic frameworks have discovered a surprising exception...
Pat Robertson says Haiti suffered earthquake because its people "swore a pact with the devil"
Oh crap. That demented fool is again engaging his mouth before using his mind (or what little is left of it anyway). This time Pat Robertson of The 700 Club is blaming Haiti's earthquake on how that country's citizens "swore a pact with the devil" to get free from the French.I've said this from darn nearly the very beginning of this blog, and I'll say it again: Pat Robertson is, according to the strictest biblical definition, a false prophet. ...
The trees of Mars
Not really trees, but an optical illusion captured by NASA's HiRISE camera in orbit around the red planet. What appears to be a scattering of pine trees is actually several trails of debris near Mars's north pole, left behind as the ice cap goes on its seasonal retreat.Mash down here for more about the "trees" of Ma...
Freaky news: Human-faced lamb born in turkey
Click here if you want to see the photo of it. I'm too wigged-out by it to post here. Consider yourself duly warned.The story also cites a human-faced goat that was born in Zimbabwe a few months ago. The goat lived for a few hours before frightened villagers killed it (and the governor of the province it was born in insists that it was the result of a human man having sex with a female goat).Crazy stuff, no doubt. But it does make me consider...
Please keep Haiti in your prayers y'all
Yesterday's 7.3 earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti is fast shaping up to be one of the worst natural disasters of recent memory. I'm hearing that this is the biggest tremblor in two centuries to hit the area.Here's asking this blog's readers to please hold the Haitian people up in your thoughts and prayers in the days and weeks to come. Lord knows, they're gonna need ...
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Most disturbing SESAME STREET clip I've posted yet
The innuendo in this song is so horribly bad. I have to feel sorry for whoever it was that wrote it. What was Sesame Workshop thinking??Here is Baby Elmo's dad serenading his son about "Potty Time"..."So here is your new potty!When you have to pee or pooIt's where you sit to do whatcha gotta do-do!"You've got to wonder: How does Elmo - or any Muppet for that matter - use the potty when someone's hand is shoved hard up their intestinal tra...
Clint Eastwood as Batman... in a movie version of THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS?!
It nearly happened, folks! While talking about their new movie The Book of Eli with MTV News, Albert and Allen Hughes revealed that years ago Warner Bros. offered them the chance to direct a film adaptation of Frank Miller's acclaimed graphic novel The Dark Knight Returns: the work most often praised for establishing the modern, grim take on Batman.In case you've never treated...
STAR WARS: THE OLD REPUBLIC dated for spring 2011
What is perhaps the most anticipated computer game is going to be a bit longer in finally arriving. BioWare confirmed today that Star Wars: The Old Republic will be released sometime in the spring of 2011. It was fall of 2008 when BioWare announced that it was developing the massively-multiplayer online RPG.Some people are saying this is too long a time to wait for this...
Miep Gies, protector of Anne Frank's family, has passed away
The second bestselling nonfiction book of all time - surpassed only by the Bible - owes its publication to this fine lady...Miep Gies and her husband Jan were the Dutch couple who hid Otto Frank and his family in an Amsterdam office building's secluded annex from 1942 to 1944. For more than two years, Miep and Jan Gies smuggled food and other provisions to the Franks and...
