My email from Congress.org informed me that H.R. 3962 this week is the reconciled version of the health care reform bill debated by three House committees this summer. The email only provided a link to "tell Congress what you think." I didn't know what to think since I hadn't read it yet, so I asked Thomas what it says ( Read more... )

♠ ManWithPez pits Grant Imahara of Mythbusters against Chuck Norris. 10 points explain who the better man is. 1. While Grant Imahara would never sink so low as to engage in a fistfight with Chuck Norris, in the time it took you to read this sentence, he’s already built a robot to do it for him. You really must read the whole list.

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The winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace goes to:

• Barack Obama, President of the United States of America

"for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples"

Press ReleaseI remember, rather vividly, how the right wing had kiniptchens when Al Gore received the Peace Prize. Interestingly, it was more ( Read more... )

I really wanted to organize my very own post regarding health care. More specifically what exists out there outside the United States, how it works, maybe how it doesn't work, and how it is completely different from how Americans are believed it works. But I couldn't seem to do better than what was already done on Scienceblogs. Specifically, ( Read more... )

ETA: You Tube has pulled the clip, supposedly at NBC's request. It can still be seen here at NBC.

William Shatner Reads Sarah Palin Farewell Speech [1:52] It's beatnik poetry.

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... or, Putting the Goober in Gubernatorial ( Read more... )

I'm following Change_for_Iran on Twitter (plus a couple others) and these messages just showed up starting about an hour ago. It's creepy and scary that all this inhumanity is happening right now. I copy-pasted it for the most part, but edited out a couple of personal replies (mostly because I didn't know the question to his answers). Still putting ( Read more... )

I really hope that the Farsi is correct. Knowing how online translators can sometimes get it wrong for languages I can read, it really worries me for a language I cannot read.

But, gankable nonetheless. The first one can be used to add your own text. (Or make a request but I can't guarantee I'll get to it while I'm at work.)


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Since my previous post, reports keep flooding through Twitter. It's terribly difficult to keep up.

• I already posted the flickr set. It appears those images have made their way to today's Boston.com Big Picture. There are some intense graphic images, but Boston.com warns you ahead of time, providing a black cover you have to click on to see the ( Read more... )

Saturday night I started typing a little something about the Iran election. Considering how late it was, I set it aside with plans to come back to it after some rest and a fresh perspective. Instead, on Sunday I posted about getting Windows 7 installed on a spare computer. I still wanted to get back to the larger issue, but so many developments ( Read more... )