Fucking bigot amendments. (Maybe I'll write something more later.)

(These were selected more for humor value than any seriousness ( Read more... )

"One day I will be asked whether I have been in touch with someone who told me we would win, and I will respond, 'Yes, I have been in touch with God'."

So who do you think said it? No fair Googling.

This week the Republicans in Congress, at the behest of Bush's administration, rammed through a bill that violates the word and the spirit of the Constitution (see, at a minimum, article 1 section 9 paragraph 2; amendments 5, 6, 7 and 8, at a minimum; and disregards the Geneva convention, as a sort of side-note) and grants dictatorial powers to the ( Read more... )

In 1996, John Horgan wrote a silly book called The End of Science. In October 2006, he published an equally silly article in Discover on the same topic. Horgan believes that, somehow, science has already made all the important discoveries that exist and that all that's left to do is fill in the details ( Read more... )

http://avi-rubin.blogspot.com/2006/09/my-day-at-polls-maryland-primary-06.html

The electronic poll books presented an even bigger problem, however. Every so often, about once every 15-25 minutes, after a voter signed in, and while that ( Read more... )

http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/2006/406_meth.html

The assault on pseudoephedrine continues-via the Patriot Act?! What does this have to do with terrorism again? Oh, right: nothing, absolutely nothing! The Patriot Act has nothing to do with terrorism and ( Read more... )

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5344892.stmRead more... )

I have a rant I've been meaning to put up, but it will have to wait for some other things first. Instead, I'll offer this link. (NSFW links with appalling grammar and spelling contained on the page ( Read more... )

Tiny Animals on Fingers

They're so small!