Archives for December 17, 2008
Further thoughts on the recount
Posted by Greg Laden on December 17, 2008 Think back to Florida eight years ago. There is a reasonable argument that Al Gore was duly voted, even via the electoral college, to be President of the United States, but George W. Bush was placed in that office for one and only one reason: The recount process in Florida was transformed into a circus,…
LOL Scientist: Madame Curie
Posted by Greg Laden on December 17, 2008 As promised, messing around with the Gender Genie
Posted by Greg Laden on December 17, 2008 Juliana, as many could testify, was the progenitor of this seminal idea, in which she finds (around here somewhere) a modicum of humanity. In fact, to Juliana, being a full time transvestite, it was obvoius that she had to work hard to get Pat around the idea of a new plan, to convince Pat as…
Richard Preston: Climbing the world’s biggest trees
Posted by Greg Laden on December 17, 2008 Franken Challenges Finished.
Posted by Greg Laden on December 17, 2008 Moments ago, the Minnesota State Canvassing Board has completed the review of several hundred challenges produced during the process of recounting the November 5th ballots in the US Senate race between Norm Coleman and Al Franken. The next stage will be to review the Coleman challenges, of which there are approximately double the number as…
Hard Core Atheist Checklist
Posted by Greg Laden on December 17, 2008 My hardcore atheist checklist is below the fold. I award myself forty one points, including extra points for doing things to missionaries and such.
Mice Doing Albatross In
Posted by Greg Laden on December 17, 2008 Predatory rodents are eating the chicks of the Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena to the extent that they have had the worst breeding season recorded so far. The mice are also affecting Gough Island’s other Critically Endangered endemic species, Gough Bunting Rowettia goughensis. A recent survey of the bunting’s population revealed that the population…
To keep you busy while you watch them recount the votes
Posted by Greg Laden on December 17, 2008 And oldie but a goodie:
Zorba and The Crew
Posted by Greg Laden on December 17, 2008 I call him Zorba because I don’t want to use his real name, and he reminds me of an extra savvy Zorba the Greek from the movie. But I should call him Ex-Zorba, because of the strange way people in this country were named over the previous few decades. When The Big Man took charge…
Frosty Says “Coal is Totally Clean!”
Posted by Greg Laden on December 17, 2008 “There must have been some magic in clean coal technology; for when they looked for pollutants there was nearly none to see” Huh?
Star Wars Shoe Toss Remix
Posted by Greg Laden on December 17, 2008 Science Pundit sent me this cool movie: Thank you some crazy Iraqui guy for giving us a way to remember George W. Bush that is as enduring as Fala the Dog and the New Deal for FDR, the “I am not a Crook” speech and Opening Up China for Richard Nixon, Winning the American Revolution…
, which is now available for the 
