January 29th, 2007

I’m glad to report that this no longer happens and that the public has been encouraged by subsequent administrations to regard scientists as leading sources of expertise in their fields, second only to corporate CEOs, senators from Oklahoma, and psychics. Dr. Joan Bushwell’s Chimpanzee Refuge : The galactic price of organizational arrogance  

January 27th, 2007

Yeah, marsupials and placentals are indistinguishable from one another…if you sketch them out in crayon. Pharyngula: They make laughingstocks of themselves, don’t they?  

January 16th, 2007

Here’s another poser: Suppose you’re an innocent suspect whom your captors are convinced is a terrorist. They don’t believe your protestations, so they decide to torture you into a confession. The more you protest your innocence, the more frustrated they get that you won’t “crack.” What do you say to get them to stop? How do you get them not to decide they need to hurt you even more? Reason Magazine - Ticking Bombast  

January 11th, 2007

I don’t know what happens when a submarine full of nuclear weapons ignites an oil supertanker, but I’m thinking it would be fun to watch. The Dilbert Blog: Oops  

January 5th, 2007

Still, as with all childhood memories, I prefer to focus on the sunlight-through-wings part, and not dwell on the flung poop. eat our brains » Blog Archive » No Place Like It  

Look, if God didn’t want us to masturbate he would have given us shorter arms. Dispatches from the Culture Wars: Pretending to Be Straight, Good; Masturbation, Bad