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Scientists are hard at work on figuring out how not to spill coffee. MailOnline (“It’s all in the walk: Scientists explore the physics behind NOT spilling coffee“): Researchers are a step closer to understanding the science behind one of life’s common pitfalls – spilling coffee. Scientists from the University of California, Santa Barbara, decided to [...]
HappyPlace posts the above photo under the headline, “Little kid completely half-asses his letter to a soldier in combat.” via Sky Gerrond, who claims “I got at least a dozen letters like this.”
A man is picketing a Wisconsin restaurant for failure to live up to its “All You Can Eat” sign. The two sides offer wildly different accountings of the facts here. If, in fact, Whitt was sharing his food with a buddy, then he’s clearly violated the terms of the arrangement. If, on the other hand, [...]
Rex Huppke reports, “Facts died Wednesday, April 18, after a long battle for relevancy with the 24-hour news cycle, blogs and the Internet.”
Ted Nugent, whose music I really liked when I was in junior high school, said something vile and crazy.
The story of Ensign Chuck Lord may be the greatest—or perhaps only—prank in Pentagon art history
The New Yorker’s cover has Rick Santorum in a doghouse strapped atop Mitt Romney’s car.
Barbara Boxer takes the Daily Show’s “The Vagina Ideologues” bit out of context and deconstructs it during the Senate’s Blunt amendment debate.
A discussion in the comments thread of my “Time Running Out For GOP?” post led me to a post from four-plus years ago by frequent commenter and erstwhile blogger* Michael Reynolds titled “Money, Bombs and Jesus.”
One wonders why any Republican politician would want to be associated with this image.
Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non-addictive, gender neutral, celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasions and/or traditions [...]
Andrew Sullivan‘s posting of Team America’s depiction of a puppet Kim Jong Il singing “I’m So Ronery” naturally sent me to look for other snippets from the flick. Apparently, I’m not the only one. NY Daily News (“‘Team America: World Police’ surges as Twitter topic following Kim Jong Il’s death“): The death of Kim Jong [...]
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Consider: Happy Holidays? What are you Governor, some kind of Secular Humanist? Found via Twitter
Last night’s opening segment on The Daily Show was brutal for Herman Cain, but hilarious for the rest of us: Part One: The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook Part Two: The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor [...]
The Rick Perry “Oops!” gaffe from last night’s debate reminds me of one of my oldest daughter’s favorite books, Blue Hat, Green Hat by Sandra Boynton.
Former heavyweight champion of the world and convicted rapist Mike Tyson satires former pizza mogul and erstwhile Republican frontrunner Herman Cain: Herman Cain’s Campaign Promises with Mike Tyson from Mike Tyson Via John Cole, who observes, “The part about tea partiers loving crazy more than they hate blacks made me laugh out loud.” “A restaurant [...]
Diana Wueger passes along word that, “Drinking water from a water bottle is among the lesser known challenges that come along with double-X chromosomes.” I had been unaware but she provides substantial anecdotal evidence.
DEVELOPING STORY: In a well-marked building in McLean, Virginia, hundreds of CIA analysts are reading newspapers and watching cable news networks for information that might be helpful in assessing terrorist networks. Often, sources tell OTB, this information is pieced together in order to then kill people in faraway countries using drones. Additionally, as a wildly [...]
Perhaps I should take this whole “Occupy” movement more seriously: H/T: The Pajama Pundit
Rick Santorum says Saturday Night Live is bullying” him for “standing up for the traditional family.”
Jon Stewart describes how “The Daily Show” comes together while wearing a 1st Cav baseball cap. “The best shows are made of the smallest moments,” says Stewart. “Donald Trump eating pizza with a fork, and making that into eight minutes of a completely overblown sanctimonious rant on the apostasy of eating pizza with a fork.”
Beginning with “BREAKING: Witnesses reporting screams and gunfire heard inside Capitol building,” a series of tweets with the #CongressHostage hashtag have been decidedly unfunny.
File this one under there’s a market for everything: Greeting card companies have taken a cue from the nation’s 9 percent unemployment rate. In a six-by-four inch envelope, someone can send a friend who lost his or her job a pre-printed message of encouragement and sympathy. Though not available at every corner store, layoff greeting [...]
I’m not sure when “the strippers, JFK, and Stalin” would be used in a sentence given that Stalin died in 1953, when JFK was in his first year in the Senate and thus unlikely to be invited to parties with heads of state, but this is amusing nonetheless: via Brian J. Noggle’s Facebook
Yesterday in New York, President Obama posed for a photograph with an International Open Government Partnership event: The gentlemen who was blocked is apparently a representative from Mongolia.
Bill O’Reilly makes a convincing argument for raising taxes on the wealthy.
When an earthquake hits, people flood the internet with posts about it–some within 20 or 30 seconds.
CNN correspondent Sara Sidner is in Tripoli, Libya reporting on the rebel advance into the city. Unfortunately when she was interviewed recently whoever was in charge of graphics at CNN must’ve been someone who flunked geography: There is a Tripoli, Lebanon, of course, but it isn’t currently under rebel assault, and presumably not the hideout [...]
Through 20 years of effort, we’ve successfully trained everyone to use passwords that are hard for humans to remember but easy for computers to guess.
