Have things really changed for gay actors and actresses? (Hat tip to rm)

A NYC taxi driver returned a black bag carrying 31 diamond rings to a passenger who earlier had given him a 30-cent tip on an $11 ride.

Beautiful pictures of poisonous frogs

Time: 10 Questions for William Shatner

Gay Sheep Fearmongering from PETA turns out to be wrong. I ( Read more... )

Received a couple of emails this morning complaining that I had improperly used called Guantanamo Bay a "concentration camp". I've explained why I call it that before, so I thought I'd make a quick separate entry about it that would be easy to link to.

From Wikipedia (they quote the OED)

An internment camp or concentration camp is a large ( Read more... )

To rescue a single soldier, Cpl. Gilad Shalit, (19), Israel has mobilized for war. (I keep thinking about the “Men are not potatoes” line from Heinlein’s Starship Troopers.) They have arrested 64 members of the Palestinian governing party, Hamas, including eight of its cabinet ministers, in “a massive overnight sweep slammed by the Islamists as a ( Read more... )

Science
Postgenomic aggregates posts from life sciences blogs and then does interesting things with the data.

A connection exists between disease outbreaks and extreme religious practice.

Seventh graders’ opinions of scientists before and after visiting Fermilab

Spray-On Solar-Power Cells Are True Breakthrough

An interview with Dr. Deborah ( Read more... )