With Mitt Romney gone, the knives come out for Jeb Bush, by Hunter The goal is to get cops to change. That's why Comey spoke about racism and policing the way he did, by Ian Reifowitz The thing about endless war is that it never ends, by Laurence Lewis Eureka! My earthshaking new study reveals the root cause of the profoundly stupid, by Susan Grigsby The U.S. Army is changing ... for the better, by Mark E. Andersen Thomas Jefferson, hypocrite. Robert 'Councillor' Carter, emancipator, by Denise Oliver Velez Michael Cannon, CATO hack behind King v. Burwell, lying again about Ben Nelson, by Dante Atkins Happy belated Darwin's Day! by DarkSyde
The goal is to get cops to change. That's why Comey spoke about racism and policing the way he did, by Ian Reifowitz
The thing about endless war is that it never ends, by Laurence Lewis
Eureka! My earthshaking new study reveals the root cause of the profoundly stupid, by Susan Grigsby
The U.S. Army is changing ... for the better, by Mark E. Andersen
Thomas Jefferson, hypocrite. Robert 'Councillor' Carter, emancipator, by Denise Oliver Velez
Michael Cannon, CATO hack behind King v. Burwell, lying again about Ben Nelson, by Dante Atkins
Happy belated Darwin's Day! by DarkSyde
THEORETICAL Quantum Physicist Dr. Amit Goswami admitted today that he, and his peers, have absolutely ‘no fucking idea’ what they’re doing, and claims they were no nearer than prehistoric man to figuring out the Universe. “We have been just winging it to tell you the truth,” explained the 78-year-old in an exclusive interview with WWN. “Seriously, I haven’t a clue what’s going on. Either does anyone else in my field. We keep proving stuff that never actually happened.”
“We have been just winging it to tell you the truth,” explained the 78-year-old in an exclusive interview with WWN. “Seriously, I haven’t a clue what’s going on. Either does anyone else in my field. We keep proving stuff that never actually happened.”
A spate of owl attacks in Salem, Oregon's Bush's State Park has spurred park officials to install twenty signs that depict an owl with outstretched talons descending upon a hapless, terror-stricken stick figure. The Associated Press reports that the signs were inspired in large part by MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, who last week suggested the city should post a sign warning parkgoers of the threat posed by an angry owl, known to have attacked at least four runners in recent weeks—an act of defense, most likely, against a perceived threat to its nest
The Associated Press reports that the signs were inspired in large part by MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, who last week suggested the city should post a sign warning parkgoers of the threat posed by an angry owl, known to have attacked at least four runners in recent weeks—an act of defense, most likely, against a perceived threat to its nest
America's stubborn unwillingness to get rid of Fahrenheit temperatures is part of its generally dumb refusal to change over to the metric system, which has real-world consequences. One conversion error between US and metric measurements sent a $125 million NASA probe to its fiery death in Mars' atmosphere. […] It made sense to switch over, both because the metric system is more intuitive and because adopting the same system as other countries would make scientific cooperation much easier. Congress passed a law, the 1975 Metric Conversion Act, that was theoretically supposed to begin the process of metrication. It set up a Metric Board to supervise the transition. The law crashed and burned.
It made sense to switch over, both because the metric system is more intuitive and because adopting the same system as other countries would make scientific cooperation much easier. Congress passed a law, the 1975 Metric Conversion Act, that was theoretically supposed to begin the process of metrication. It set up a Metric Board to supervise the transition.
The law crashed and burned.
Government surveyors have determined a new height for the Washington Monument that's nearly 10 inches shorter than what has been thought for more than 130 years, officials will announce Monday. The new measurement puts the monument at 554 feet, 7 and eleven-thirty-seconds of an inch, as measured from the floor of the main entrance to the top. Ever since the stone obelisk was completed in 1884, however, the historic height has been recorded at 555 feet, 5 and 1/8 inches.
The new measurement puts the monument at 554 feet, 7 and eleven-thirty-seconds of an inch, as measured from the floor of the main entrance to the top. Ever since the stone obelisk was completed in 1884, however, the historic height has been recorded at 555 feet, 5 and 1/8 inches.
The climate divestment movement, which found an early stronghold on college campuses, has embraced two different strategies — a moral one, and one based on financial self-interest. The moral case, which is in the forefront at events like the Mass Hall sit-in, is straightforward. By investing in coal and gas, the industrialized world wrongs the rest of the world, and the older generation wrongs the younger generation. (Harvard students are also suing the University to compel it to divest from fossil fuel companies on the grounds that its “funding of global warming harms its students and future generations.”) The financial argument is more hard-nosed: It maintains that investments in oil, gas, and coal are grossly overvalued, since if we actually used the reserves their valuations are based on, driving up the planetary thermostat, the rest of the economy would tank. Until now, the moral argument for divestment has been the most visible one.
Until now, the moral argument for divestment has been the most visible one.