And Those Tina Fey Glasses!
She looks about right, too. When SNL is on, they’re on.
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The Abundant World
Via Long Tail, a reminder of an interesting quote from Lewis Strauss, the former head of the Atomic Energy Commission: It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to… Continue Reading
If My Mom Were Sarah Palin
My name would be Bash Budweister Palin. What would you be? (By the way, I broke down and made a “Sarah Palin” category. No “Joe Biden” category yet, though, he’s just not interesting enough. Maybe later.)
They Felt This Way At Yorktown, Too
Daniel Drezner is all atwitter over this sentence:The Russian stock market’s rise can be traced to positive news on the nationalization of US mortgage agencies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. I have to admit, the irony is apparent to me,… Continue Reading
Understanding The Needs Of The Early Morning Drinker
Martinis should be clean; I’ve said it before. Clean and cold. Now, if you want a flavor to it, well, I guess we can do that. I enjoyed the vodka flavored with bison grass in my martinis not too long… Continue Reading
Mo Better Science
It’s not a big secret that science and math education in the United States is, at best, struggling to compete with that being done in the rest of the industrialized world. American special effects impresario-turned basic cable TV show host… Continue Reading
Oh Yeah, Some Political Guy Gave A Speech Tonight Too
Read the whole text of it here. It was, of course, delivered in a magnificent way. Including the invocation of the language of Scripture at the end, loosely underlining the point of my previous post.
Templum Obamicum
Barack Obama is now officially the Democratic party’s nominee for President of the United States. Which is good. Nice that Senator Clinton moved to have his nomination passed out of the convention floor by acclamation, which avoids a roll call… Continue Reading
Comedy Gold
Wife files for divorce. Husband wants to reconcile. Wife says, “No way.” Husband hires hit man to kill wife with claw hammer. Wife strangles hit man to death with bare hands. Delightfully irreverent analysis here — including an laugh-out-loud comment… Continue Reading
Google Gives Results You Don’t Always Expect
My Google blog reader is continually suggesting new and different blogs for me to read. For three days now, it’s been trying to steer me towards Half Sigma, who I sometimes participate in commenting on at the quirky and intellectually… Continue Reading