Incoherity!

Blogger Mark Nickolas tries an interesting trick regarding Obama's speaking level versus Bush's. So, I just finished comparing the transcript of President Obama's first presidential press conference this evening with the very first one that former...

Fascinating and disgusting!

I'm in awe of a new find by one of my favorite bloggers, Leisure Guy. Behold in all its glory This Is Why You're Fat. It's a collection of disgustingly appetizing(?) food for those who aren't afraid of things like heart attacks. I think the picture...

How to swim the Atlantic

First, start in Cape Verde and go to Trinidad, conveniently cutting down on the approximately 2,500-mile trip by a few hundred miles. Second, spend most of the trip in a boat, not swimming, cutting the voyage by another 1,700 miles or so. Third, accidentally inflate...

Mad science isn't what it used to be

I'm on record with my plans to retire someday to a chateau somewhere in the Black Forest, build a lab, lose my hair gel and become an honest-to-goodness mad scientist. But crikey, is the competition getting stiff. Used to be you could hack up a few things, sew...

Mos Spec? Biggie Palin?

RNC chairman Michael Steele: "We want to convey that the modern-day GOP looks like the conservative party that stands on principles. But we want to apply them to urban-surburban hip-hop settings." “It will be avant garde, technically. It will come to...