Posted in Media, Panic on November 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I just thought this was an odd bit of media scaremongering.
Wow. 189 dead and one million infected. That’s a mortality rate of 0.019% (as compared to the morality rate of normal flu: 0.1%.) Yeah, yeah, I know – mortality trails infection rates.
And just to clear things up:
GENEVA — The World Health Organization [...]
Posted in Animal Intelligence on November 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
To me, seals look like dogs that have evolved to live in the oceans.
On a related note, this is a very cool National Geographic documentary on Dolphins. They talk about dolphin society and pack hunting. (55 minutes long)
http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/dolphins_the_wild_side/
Posted in 2012, Humor, QuoteOfTheDay on November 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
My ex-girlfriend truly believes 2012 is the end of the world. She bet me 50 dollars that the world would end in 2012. I explained to her if the world is going to end, then there’s no way I could pay her. I either win the bet, or we’re all dead. With a frustrated look [...]
Posted in Video on November 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Nothing to do with anything, just a cool video of a bus ride through a forest fire in Australia.
Posted in Religion on November 9, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I’ve been listening to John Hummel’s 52 Weeks, 52 Religions podcast lately. He’s a former Mormon who’s out doing interviews with religious groups around Tampa Florida. About half of his interviews are with various Christian denominations, but he includes Muslims, Jews, Satanists, Pagans, etc in his podcast. It’s interesting stuff if you [...]
Posted in Humor on November 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sadly, I don’t think this is too far from reality:
WASHINGTON—Claiming that the president was preying on the public’s fear of contracting a fatal disease last week when he declared the H1N1 virus a national emergency, Republican leaders announced Wednesday that they were officially endorsing the swine flu. “Thousands of Americans—hardworking ordinary Americans like you and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on November 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Years ago, Colorado was one of fourteen states that had voted to legalize medical marijuana. The problem was that the federal government still said it was illegal, leaving it in a legal limbo. With Obama’s recent comment about letting state laws stand, there’s been a kind of gold rush. I don’t know [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on November 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This is an old story, but I just heard about it. Catholic League president Bill Donohue issued a press release back in 2006, condemning Jessica Delfino for her sacrilegious musical comedy. As far as I can tell, she’s a relatively obscure New York comic, but Bill likes to complain. From the press [...]
Posted in Humor, Video on November 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/victim_in_fatal_car_accident
Posted in Media on November 3, 2009 | 3 Comments »
[Update: As Bourgeois_Rage points out, this seems to be a hoax letter sent to a newspaper.]
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