Just in time for the 4th, a patriotic message from me ( Read more... )

Just finished the first five seasons. Great storyline and everything wrapped up. It looks very much like the first two were standalone, then the next three were the sequel. I read up on it and the original creator only intended to do five seasons. I suspect the next 3 seasons won't be able to top it, but I hope they can do better than just jumping ( Read more... )

A few days ago I was watching a Poirot TV show, one of those from BBC. In the background I heard this waltz which I knew I'd heard before and was actually very familiar with. Over the course of the day the tune refused to get out of my head. I only heard a few seconds, but somehow I knew the entire tune, but not only the entire tune, I knew a ( Read more... )

First, the "Definitely Not Coordinating With Stephen Colbert Super PAC" posts a hilarious Romney attack ad which in essence says, if corporations are people, Romney is a mass murderer. Then, since Colbert missed the deadline to run in South Carolina, but Herman Cain dropped out too late to remove himself, he encourages everyone to vote for him in ( Read more... )

I was in NYC during the fall of the south Bronx. It literally looked like a bombed city in WWII. 40 years later ( Read more... )

It has always been my belief that the mind is nothing more than an emergent property of brain chemistry, not a separate entity. How can this be considering the range of complexity and beliefs? Sorry, but it's chemistry, In this particular case, the rise of dopamine in response to an anticipated reward.

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Many of your religious beliefs are really ( Read more... )

Ghost of teen strikes down those who don't repost her story on facebook

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/ghosts/winstead.asp

This has to be debunked on Snopes? Really? I mean that as coming from a human alive in the 21st century.

And by hot, I mean radioactive. Here's the readings several hours after having had a radio-pharmaceutical injection.

The scale reads 0.12 but that was at 100x which means she is emitting about 12 mr/hr (gamma ( Read more... )

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I don't always agree with Penn Gillette, but when I do ...