I first posted a video of Baron attempting to get some pasta some weeks ago. The video is on YouTube, has been viewed 52,540 at the time of this posting, and has be posted by someone called “Meg” on Cute Overload, where it has received dozens of comments. Michelle found out about the [...]
Right before leaving for Houston, I discovered mold in the walls of my guest bedroom. The cause was a burst heating pipe in the floor above which had destroyed my bathroom ceiling about a month prior. Large holes were cut in that ceiling, water drained and a ton of bleached poured, but we [...]
Dignified in demeanor, independent in ideology and frequently blue in blood, they were politicians in the mold of Roosevelt and Rockefeller: socially tolerant, environmentally enthusiastic, people who liked government to keep its wallet close to its vest and its hands out of social issues like abortion and, in recent years, same-sex marriage.
But this election dealt [...]
An excellent article on how corn and sugar subsidies provided to industry by the US government are keeping us reliant on foreign oil. Great, short, important read.
Though not frickin’ sharks with frickin’ lazer beams, Project Orcon, for “organic control,” was funded by the US military in World War II.
The control system involved a lens at the front of the missile projecting an image of the target to a screen inside, while a pigeon trained (by operant conditioning) to recognize the target [...]
I don’t mean to make any connection to the Connecticut senator’s politics, as I actually don’t mind the guy, but this is just awesome.
Given the prospect that even a small degree of global warming could cause a massive global extinction on the scale of the dinosaurs, we should be worried about it. Also, it may even be too late to prevent such a catastrophe simply by cutting back emissions:
Everyone with a bit of sense knows that the [...]
The US government, in its valiant attempt to stem the invasion of our country by the imperial Mexican Empire to the south (sarcasm intended), is now getting ordinary citizens involved. The government has begun testing a website that allows ordinary citizens to monitor the border from the Mexican-free safety of their own bedrooms/basements/offices. [...]
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