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…just so I could vote for Al Franken.  The following two videos are tremendous.  Few members of our elected officials actually give a shit about the average person, and he’s one of them.  Bernie Sanders is another.  The first of … Continue reading →

Absolutely true and thoroughly worthwhile to watch.  

Despite being an enormously over-expensive project, the Space Shuttle was a marvel of engineering, and a pioneering effort in exploration. The final flight of the fleet took place these last couple days – and it deserves a big salute.  Despite … Continue reading →

After a hiatus of ten years or so, tomorrow I’m going to go play paintball – I used to be very good, and enjoyed a good rep as an airsmith and a player, but I suspect I’m a bit rusty. … Continue reading →

Mr. Connolly delivers the message far more succinctly than I ever could.  Most definitely NOT safe for work. Edit: not funny, but more clinical takedown on Xianity – and a very well-thought and well-presented argument (part 1): (part 2)

Based on a totally unscientific person-on-the-street set of brief interviews, a Catholic reporter found a great majority of the Irish aren’t really all that into being Catholic. I particularly love where the guy tries to make the claim that not going … Continue reading →

…it’d be ass cancer. Nobel laureate Harald zur Hausen suspects that there may be a virus we haven’t discovered yet that causes cancer, in beef. Dr. zur Hausen, in case you hadn’t known previously, is the fellow who won his … Continue reading →

Try this on for size.  Mr. Stewart at top form.   The Daily Show – Fox News False StatementsTags: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook

…but Rupert Murdoch’s paper in the UK, News of the World, was responsible for one of the biggest cases of phone-hacking there’s ever been outside of NSA wiretapping. From the appearance of the case (which is now ten years old), … Continue reading →