A rather terrifying series of news articles has recently been brought to my attention. I am certainly not one of those people inclined to alarmism, but I have to admit the growing trend of things such as those below makes me fear for the integrity of our educational system. It's not that people are saying these things; that has been going on for ( Read more... )

... In its place, we are coming to a period of consequences ( Read more... )

"What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of ( Read more... )

Unless you're living under a rock that doesn't get CNN, you've no doubt heard that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called Bush "El Diablo" (the Devil) on the floor of the United Nations in New York today ( Read more... )

Since everybody is ( doing it... )

A reminder that propaganda easily hides in the news:

First we look at a blatant forgery by Reuters photographer Adnan Hajj. [1]
I have to wonder how even the most blasé Reuters editor didn't catch the brazen doctoring...

Check out this picture, then read his excuse below.

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In my utmost brilliance today, I managed to break my toe. Fortunately I'm quarantined from doing anything this weekend anyway so my retarded gimpiness will not cause anyone else any inconvenience, but it does leave me feeling pretty stupid.

I did it walking down the stairs.

Wow.

Go me.

"We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately."
Benjamin Franklin, scientist, inventor, statesman, printer, philosopher, musician, economist, at the signing of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776.

( Why we are here - I don't expect you to read it all, but pick a couple of paragraphs at least... )

Going along with the Post-Apocalyptic Team meme thing, I decided to take friarjohn's Zombie Scenario Survival Test too. ( It's good to get solid feedback on how prepared I am for the inevitable... )

From the Washington Post's Style Invitational: Take an existing headline and create a new subhead for a more interesting news story.
( Subheads of doom. )