2007 Ig Nobel Winners ( Read more... )

Get yourself educated. Think, talk, and listen.

One of the best things I've done in 2006 was attend HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher" live at the CBS studios in downtown LA on a mild Friday night in March. Because of my own screw-up, sevlow and I almost didn't get in, but we did and it was awesome ( Read more... )

Rep. Harris: Church-state separation 'a lie'

MIAMI, Florida (AP) -- U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris told a religious journal that separation of church and state is "a lie" and God and the nation's founding fathers did not intend the country be "a nation of secular laws ( Read more... )

Another reason to hate Wal-Mart: click meThe Way We Live Now ( Read more... )

Tower of London on climate list
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4810826.stm

Excerpt:

The UN's cultural and scientific wing Unesco says climate change threatens World Heritage Sites such as the Great Barrier Reef and the Tower of London ( Read more... )

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/31/postal.shooting.ap/index.html

The Goleta shootings last night made CNN.

Snake 'befriends' snack hamster
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4627950.stm

My reaction: ZOMG!

Sometimes I wonder what I'll tell my children about the world I grew up in, filled with random, horrible terrorist attacks all around the world; people, including children, murdered for their religious beliefs; the destruction of the global environment, seemingly without care by the people who can actually do someting about it; people in power of ( Read more... )

WHY?

http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/05/05/gay.donor.ap/index.html

I read this earlier and banged my head on my desk hard enough to draw blood.