Archive for May, 2010
Teacher Uses Assassination To Explain Geometry
Crazy stuff. (via TPM) The Secret Service investigated an Alabama high school teacher for using the example of shooting President Obama while teaching a geometry lesson. […] A student in the class described the lesson: “He was talking about angles and said, ‘If you’re in this building, you would need to take this angle to […]
Another “Family Values” Republican Fails To Practice What He Preaches
Typical. Rep. Mark Souder (R-IN), a champion of abstinence education and traditional family values, will resign effective Friday after an affair with a female staffer in his district office, he announced today. He said in a statement that he “sinned against God, my wife and my family by having a mutual relationship with a part-time […]
The Oceans Will Run Out Of Fish In 40 Years
The greed of the developed world will be the tombstone of the planet. From AFP: The world faces the nightmare possibility of fishless oceans by 2050 unless fishing fleets are slashed and stocks allowed to recover, UN experts warned. “If the various estimates we have received… come true, then we are in the situation where […]
Conservatives Freak Out Over Unimportant Competition
An Arab-American Muslim woman won the Miss USA title and wingnuts went crazy.
Bye Bye Blumenthal?
Connecticut Democratic Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal got caught in a big lie. He claims to have served in Vietnam, but he got 5 deferments. There was one problem: Mr. Blumenthal, a Democrat now running for the United States Senate, never served in Vietnam. He obtained at least five military deferments from 1965 to 1970 and […]
Oilpocalypse Update
Oilpocalypse updates: both good news and bad news. Giant plumes of oil have been observed under the water. However, the tube insertion appears to have been successful. Extra special bonus – Palin speaks!
Late Night Video: RIP Ronnie James Dio
The death of heavy metal legend Ronnie James Dio was announced today. He was 67 years old. Here is one of my favorite Dio tunes “Holy Diver.”
Republican Convention Today
You are to be forgiven if you have no idea that the Republicans are meeting today to give out party endorsements. I have only really seen it discussed on the blogs on the other side of the political spectrum. But the comments section of those threads have been highly entertaining. The local tea partiers like […]
Atlantis
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL — There are times in my life that can be pointed to as special moments, good or bad, pleasant or heart-wrenching: the birth of a my son, the love I feel for my wife and the recent death of a my mother-in-law. Of course there are many others, but now I have […]
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