• Found Alive: The Loch Ness Monster
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• Noah’s Ark Finally Found!!!

Over on Quiche Moraine I’m writing up a series of short posts on the influences of 1960s and 1970s TV on the sociocultural growth and development of Ammerican Yoots of the age.
Continue reading How We Got This Way →

According to a recent poll, the vast majority of Americans think that the Teabaggers are ignorant racist dumb-asses. Click here to vote.

We talk to Sherman K. Stein, mathematician and author of “Survival Guide for Outsiders: How To Protect Yourself From Politicians, Experts, and Other Insiders.”

What makes us so susceptible to social influence, and how can we guard against being manipulated?

And

Matthew Linsdell on Personal Training

This Friday at 6 PM MST

This is the opening paragraph which gets you very interested in the topic.

Continue reading This is a post in which I provide very important information about a disaster occurring somewhere. →

I’m using the Internet connection of some neighbor who’s name is “linksys” because my 6 year old wireless router died this morning. I have had a GI disease of some kind for the last few days which has made it impossible to eat pain meds. Ouch ouch ouch. Tomorrow, I get oral surgery. I blew all the dust out of all of my computers with those cans of air, and it settled on everything. And the vacuum cleaner sucks. In that it doesn’t.

So don’t expect any great blogging from me today, or even tomorrow, OK? Just don’t.

Maybe I’ll twitter baby duty tomorrow.

Knife throwing is for real. This came up on a different thread. Although it is possible to make a fake stage act that involves what looks like knife throwing, that is actually fairly rare. It is easier to learn to throw the knife than to make a contraption that would actually fool today’s skeptical audiences.

The following is a YouTube video that happens to be of a performance that Stephanie Zvan, Julia and I saw last September (I remember two or three things in this video that identify it as that specific show, that specific day).
Continue reading The Cucumber Slice on the Wheel of Death →

I felt prettty sick all day, so I was unable to attend our local boobquake dinner. But I have been monitoring the seismographs. It is in fact somewhat rare to have an earthquake of 6.0 or greater on a given day. There are about 200 a year at that level, and they are random, and thus cluster somewhat as random things do. So the daily expectation of one or more earthquakes is less than 4/7. Nonetheless, the single 6 magnitude earthquake that happened on Boob Day (using the international time coordinates) was not impressive. We can conclude:
Continue reading Boobquake: Well? Did the earth move for you? →

Hat Tip: The ever sharp Miss Cellania

Really, is getting vaccinated for whooping cough really a socialist plot to take over your minds?
Continue reading Anti-Vaccine Activists Kill Two Children in California →

Learn the name. She’s the next governor of Minnesota.
Continue reading Margaret Anderson Kelliher →