Rudy! For Governor!
Hey, you heard it here first! Well, actually, I heard it first at Below the Beltway. And he heard it first in the Gray Lady. So you probably didn’t really hear it here first. But you did hear it here.… Continue Reading
Month: August 2009
Friends Forever
From the deeply disturbing Comic Blasphemy. Seriously, this is about the tamest comic they have.
Failed Experiment
Too many people reported errors using StumbleUpon’s thumbs-up. So it’s gone now. I’ll try and find some other way for users to easily register approval or disapproval of what they’ve read. Stay tuned.
Unpopular Lawyers
Most lawyers I know are ethical people; they do not lie or cheat or steal from their clients or fabricate evidence or conceal it in order to win. I’m not saying there aren’t really people like that practicing law, only… Continue Reading
Prosecuting Torturers
So, we have reports that President Obama is backing a suggesting by Attorney General Holder to appoint a special prosecutor. The special prosecutor will go after people involved in the CIA’s use of torture to interrogate prisoners, including the decidedly… Continue Reading
Movie Review: District 9
It took me a week and a half, but I finally got out to the theater with some friends and saw this one. I’d been intrigued by it since first seeing the very interesting advertising campaign for the movie in… Continue Reading
Speciation
One of the objections to evolution that I often hear is that “speciation does not occur.” This objection is usually proffered by an anti-evolutionist who is ready to concede that over several generations, an animal or plant can “adapt” but… Continue Reading
Unassisted Triple Play
This is about the rarest thing that can happen in a baseball game. In the history of Major League Baseball, it’s only happened fifteen times, and this is only the second time it has ever happened to end a ballgame… Continue Reading
It’ll Never Get Old But It’ll Always Be Obscure
I’ve done enough reading about the seventeenth century recently that this one from XKCD is really funny to me.\Which reminds me. Did you hear the one about Beethoven’s career after he died? He started decomposing! Har har har!!! Okay, I’ll… Continue Reading