Portland, ME newspaper apologizes for portraying Muslims as human

I only wish that were an Onion headline. Sadly, it isn't.

Quote:

"Noting that thousands of local Muslims marked a holy day peacefully near the anniversary of a day when a few Muslims committed a mass murder (whose victims included other Muslims) was apparently beyond the pale. ( Read more... )

(originally snurched from siliconshaman , researched slightly more fully by YT)

Apparently, a group of pranksters put together a rather elaborate spoof of a special edition of the New York Times dated July 4th, 2009. They not only put it online, but also printed out over a million copies and handed them out.

See the spoof website. And yes, the links on it work. ( Read more... )

Methane Gas Upwellings Threaten to Increase Climate Change

Excerpt:

"The first evidence that millions of tons of a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide is being released into the atmosphere from beneath the Arctic seabed has been discovered by scientists. [...] massive deposits of sub-sea methane are bubbling to the surface as the ( Read more... )