if we're all Irish on St Patrick's Day, does this mean we're all Ents on Arbor Day?

George Takei on gaman and Japan.

Egyptian state security agency disbanded.

TSA scanners ten times as powerful as reported.

Tsunamis like the one that hit Japan this past weekend looks to be a once every thousand years event.

Famous people who have philosophy degrees.

via BoingBoing

Lost Shakespeare Found?

Article on Cardenia, a play based on a bit from Cervantes' Don Quixote, that Bad Bill might have had something to do with, maybe.

Tucked into the House Republican continuing resolution are provisions cutting the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, including the National Weather Service, as well as humanitarian and foreign aid.

Fundamentalists travel across the US to pass the word the world ends in May.  I get first dibs on any left behind comic books (as opposed to any Left Behind comic books)!

Senate candidate Tom Leppert is now against the earmarks he fought for as Dallas mayor.

He'll get elected, despite his blatant hypocrisy. No no no no no no