400ish miles of Wyoming today, with some Utah at the start, and some Nebraska at the end. We figured at first that eastern Nevada was the middle of nowhere, but Nebraska stepped up to the challenge by sending actual honest-to-god tumbleweeds across the highway ahead of us. It wins ( Read more... )

Video games are to blame for everything, and this tragedy only goes to show that you must support my politics.

Here's the Daily Show on Laura Bush's odd view of reality: "... many parts of Iraq are safe, now. But, of course, what we see on television is the one bombing a day that discourages everybody."

Update: Damn Comedy Central got YouTube to take the clip down. So here's a link to the same clip on their crappy video streaming site, and a link to a ( Read more... )

Been a while, so here are some links to assertions of the less-sane kind...
Redefining...

• Constant: "pi changes depending upon the strength of the gravitational field involved."
  
• Psychology: "At the risk of sounding extraordinarily sexist, I'm convinced that women ... are programmed to worry their men are going to abandon them."
  
• Criminal ( Read more... )

We've all done it: you hear something that offends your sensibilities, and decide how you feel prior to looking into (or caring about) the details ( Read more... )

US1 soldiers2 getting Iraqi3 kids to chase their truck for a bottle of water...

"You want some water? Water? Hi! Come on, keep running!"
"Here!" "Come on, you're almost there! Run!"

1 Probably, judging by the accent.
2 Could be contractors, I guess, or someone setting us up. But I doubt it.
3 Presumably.

( US tank crushes Iraqi car... )

There was a gay pride march in Jerusalem today. Sort of. Actually, it turned into a rally at Hebrew University because of a week of rioting and threats of violence from Orthodox Jews. Not too surprising - last year, three of the marchers got stabbed.

Here's a fun article by Agape Press praising the Orthodox Jews for the success of their threats of ( Read more... )

George Allen concedes. Good for him.

Finally, the Democrats can pursue their agenda out in the open.

I'm a fan of "Comatose people to be ground up and fed to poor." (I believe the Republicans would grind up the poor to feed the comatose, which is patently absurd.)

(As seen on Boing BoingIf you think this list absurd, take a look at this 9-page ( Read more... )

I'd wait longer, but it's been a productive few weeks for crazy, and the interracial dating one begs to be quoted...

• Interracial couples: "You have to really wonder about a relationship that's based on two people who have been rejected from each of their races and come to each other in desperation ... the [white] guy just wants the girl because ( Read more... )

     As the New York Times reported Sunday, homosexuals in the Republican Party -- sometimes known by insider slang terms including the "velvet mafia" or the "pink elephants" -- are a well-established force in the GOP.

[Emphasis mine.]
The mind boggles...

From an Agape Press article talking about a NYT article. (You can get a login for NYT from ( Read more... )