A Maryland highschool is now offering a specialized vocational program in homeland security and defense – all supported and endorsed by the “defense” industry of course. I always figured the “duct tape your windows in case of chemical attack” strategy reflected the careful and nuanced thinking of a high-schooler. Excerpt: Students will choose one of […]
Thankfully the Indian government has withdrawn its heretical attack on the origin of Ram’s bridge. For some evil reason they were suggesting that a land bridge between Sri Lanka and India was perhaps formed by something other than a blue dude and his army of Monkeys. 1-Don’t mess with the religious fundamentalists, they know the […]
That’s not a threat. He’s just dead. It’s obvious for a while that he’s disappeared from the public eye and this latest video seals it. Osama Bin Laden has died, now he’s either in heaven with a truckload (caravan load?) of virgins, in hell with an angry fire god, or slowly turning back to dust. […]
A recent survey by the McCormick Tribune Foundation (U.S. based) found that MacGyver was the number one fictional character Americans would want to be with in case of a disaster. Good choice, Jack Bauer is a chump who puts everyone he works with in danger, and you’ve got a 95% chance of dying if you’re […]
Best space project, ever. Geostationary Banana Over Texas From the website: “Geostationary Banana Over Texas is an art intervention that involves placing a gigantic banana over the Texas sky. This object will float between the high atmosphere and Earth’s low orbit, being visible only from the state of Texas and its surroundings. From the ground, […]
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20726968/ Gandhi said “Poverty is but the worst form of violence”. I suspect that poverty played a factor in this (and where was the education system, to teach this woman not to trust white people in the forest?)… but inbreeding (which I propose played a factor) probably helped this tragedy along.
