April 23, 2009
Please read these over and get back to us in the comments section.
The Startling Effects of Going Vegetarian for Just One Day
13 Breathtaking Effects of Cutting Back on Meat
April 23, 2009
With all the Internet attacks that exploit Adobe Acrobat Reader people should switch to using an alternative PDF reader, a security expert said at the RSA security conference on Tuesday.
Of the targeted attacks so far this year, more than 47 percent of them exploit holes in Acrobat Reader while six…
April 23, 2009
Educator alert: The best example of the Naturalistic Fallacy EVAH!!!! The money quote is....
"Carbon Dioxide is Natural. It is not harmful. It is part of earth's life cycle. And yet we are being told we have to reduce this natural substance, and reduce the american standard of living, to create…
April 23, 2009
... he went to a foreign country.
... he said "we are not a Christian Country."
... he had religious icons covered up on the stage where he gave a speech (which has been absolutely standard practice for years).
... what would President Abraham Lincoln Do?
.... all American Citizens should be…
April 23, 2009
Next time I get down on you slack-jawed yokels in Texas, which could be any time, I don't want to hear any flack. No excuses. You can take my critique in the gut and live with it OR you can tell me to stuff it. But the latter is only an option if you get off your bovine Texas asses and do what…
April 23, 2009
I just received a very threatening email from Dave Mabus. Dave is a christian who is rabidly anti atheist. As a person he is about as pleasant as a bad rash and as an intellect he makes a walnut look smart. Very few people send me truly threatening emails and get away with it for long. Remember…
April 23, 2009
It is not easy to quit smoking. It is not easy to be blogger. My friend DuWayne is trying to do both at once.
I'm a soon to be ex-smoker. My name is DuWayne Brayton and I have been smoking for about sixteen years now. I've had enough - though embarrassingly, it has taken the price of tobacco…
April 22, 2009
Opposite Marriage ... as a term ... is now in the Urban Dictionary.
Funny. I don't think of my wife as my opposite. Obverse maybe.
"Honey, you're my obverse, and always will be."
"Do you take this man, obversely, until death do you part?"
"You are not bound in Holy Obversimony"
We Demand…
April 22, 2009
DO NOT CLICK HERE until you have put your crash helmet on, because the stoopid is going to whack you upside the head so bad your eyeballs are going to spin like a top.
And if that was not enough stoopid for you, Jason has more.
The horror, the horror ...... Linux in Exile has undergone an upgrade…
April 22, 2009
Kellermann was the head of the troubled Freddie Mac financial institution. He had apparently hanged himself. A few news agencies are reporting it. Some details here.
April 22, 2009
Norm Coleman has requested a more "leisurely" (as the Star Tribune calls it) schedule for his recount appeal. What is more leisurely? The Coleman team would like oral arguments to begin no sooner than mid-May, and easily later than that.
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Clearly, the hypothesis that Norm Coleman is simply…
April 22, 2009
Upcoming nature web carnival deadlines are nicely summarized here. Please attend to these requests for your nature posts.
April 22, 2009
This is why unions are important and all corporations are inherently evil.
April 22, 2009
I remember my first Earth Day, which was also The first Earth Day. There was a big lead up to it. Our teachers had us make poster size drawings appropriate for Earth Day. I have no recollection of what I did. But, I do remember putting an air quality measuring device in my back yard and turning…
April 22, 2009
Jennifer Jacquet of Shifting Baselines has a new blog, called Guilty Planet.
Go and have a look, and welcome the new blog to the blogosphere!
April 22, 2009
... or was that Replace Michele Bachmann....
Anyway, the Replace Michele Bachmann Web Carnival is scheduled for the end of the present week, Friday or Saturday. Please get your posts in! Here is the handy dandy submission form. Thank you very much.
April 22, 2009
This is a sister post to: The Black Forest Inn: Anarchists 2, Scientists 1
Lizzie had said in her email, "Let's meet at the Black Forest Inn. I think you told me you'd never been there. It's a place you might like."
How nice of Lizzie to suggest a new place for me to enjoy. Of course, I had…
April 21, 2009
South Africans are preparing to go to the polls in what is expected to be the most competitive general election since the end of apartheid in 1994.
Some 20,000 polling stations are due to open at 0500 GMT for the more than 23 million registered voters.
The ruling African National Congress (ANC) is…
April 21, 2009
African Union troops are physically disarming 21,000 fighters from Burundi's last active rebel group, the Forces for National Liberation (FNL).
It follows a weekend ceremony where FNL leader Agathon Rwasa symbolically surrendered his own weapons to the AU.
A grenade attack killed six people but the…
April 21, 2009
Monica sent me a link to a Faux News story on global warming, which makes the claim that global warming is not real because ice is expanding, and not contracting, in Antarctica. It also makes the claim that 90 percent of the earth's ice and 80 percent of the earth's fresh water is in Antarctica,…
April 21, 2009
The Star Tribune reports that Norm Coleman has filed an appeal with the Minnesota Supreme Court. He did so late Monday. I believe this is nine days after the lower judicial panel's decision, which places this appeal just under the deadline. Clearly, Coleman has a strategy in mind that has little…
April 21, 2009
... somewhat ironically named Scientia Pro Publica, is a new Blog Carnival started by science blogger GrrlScientist. I think her objective is to create a general science carnival with reinvigorated interest that will give people fingertip access to current blog posts in any and all of the sciences…
April 20, 2009
President Mobotu Sese Seku, Kuku Kibombi, dictator of Zaire and arch typical fascist leader, once shoved a book in my hand, sort of like how Hugo Chavez shoved a book in Obama's hand. Republicans did not mock me as they are now mocking Obama, mainly because I was not President of the United States…
April 20, 2009
In one of the more nauseating passages, [of the recently released torture memos] Jay Bybee, then an assistant attorney general and now a federal judge, wrote admiringly about a contraption for waterboarding that would lurch a prisoner upright if he stopped breathing while water was poured over his…
April 20, 2009
You can bank on it, I think. Eric Holder has apparently been moving in that direction, and JD officials were a bit put off on hearing Rahn Emanuel's comments to the contrary. Holder may name an outside counsel to investigate torture.
This is coming from Newsweek via Rachel Maddow.
April 20, 2009
This is being reported:
President Barack Obama does not intend to prosecute Bush administration officials who devised the policies that led to the harsh interrogation of suspected terrorists, White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel said Sunday.
[Earlier,] ... he said "it is our intention to assure…
April 20, 2009
"Hey, look! I've located my first love! Cool, maybe we can go have dinner or something!" ... precisely the words a newlywed husband was hoping to hear from his wife ...
Amanda was sitting on the couch discovering Facebook, a place on the internet she had been assiduously avoiding until only a…
April 20, 2009
Physicist Stephen Hawking, the author of "A Brief History of Time" who is almost completely paralyzed by motor neurone disease, has been urgently admitted to hospital, Cambridge University said on Monday.
Hawking, 67, was taken by ambulance to a local hospital in Cambridge, where he teaches as a…
April 20, 2009
...I sat in the bar with the old man from Italy and thought about how much of our common knowledge of historical events is based on the plots of movies. Talking to Vincenzo forced me to step back and question these assumptions that I myself make. If I learn something from a movie, before I…
