Pre-Holiday Open Thread
Here are some links for your enjoyment as you get ready to enjoy your holiday festivities.
Al Franken’s win is making wingnut heads explode.
The Consumerist gives up the Top 10 Ironic Ads From History. My favorite is the DuPont cellophane ad.
Matt Taibbi takes on Goldman Sachs in “The Great American Bubble Machine.” Well worth a read.
ct at Daily Kos finds eerie similarities between Glenn Beck’s tweets and the rantings of the Time Cube guy. How well did you do on the quiz?
PZ Myers points to this interesting video of physicist and great science educator Richard Feynman. It’s a video a Feynman discussing science, religion and doubt.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeCHiUe1et0&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fscienceblogs%2Ecom%2Fpharyngula%2F&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]
Also from PZ, a story that is not for the squeamish! Unknown goo found in North Carolina sewer inspection. Go to the link for the answer to the mystery and watch the video, if you dare!
Tags: Open Thread
Oh UI, by posting this Feynman video, your just trying to mess with our radical theocratic right commentators.
Guilty!
I love this from the Salon article:
Then there was Limbaugh, the capo di tutti right-wing capi
Goldman responded to Taibbi’s article via Felix Salmon and Taibbi responded.
Basically it looks like Goldman is trying to tell everyone not to pay any attention to the 300-lb gorilla behind the curtain, they really aren’t getting pretty much everything they want after racking up their own bad behavior.