• Apparently crime really isn’t as bad as people perceive it. Maybe people will calm the fuck down about all this panic over a “crime asploshun!!” in Indianapolis that really isn’t. Although I doubt it. Because even though The Star carried this story, it won’t stop them from sensationalizing crime themselves and contributing to the problem.
• I think I got about 100 IQ points dumber reading about the Scientific Proof For The Existence Of God!!!111eleventomgbbq!!. Really, if you have any sort of logical reasoning skills at all it’s easy to decimate this thing into a million pieces. but I value my sanity FAR too much to actually read it again and do that in blog form. The best part is probably the uranium part. jeebus.
• A great find, CJ notes the appearance of Indianapolis in a new Marvel comic! Too bad they based the art on an old picture of the circle with the now non-existent Market Square Arena visible. Oops.
• God I hate the Pacers anymore. And not just because of horrible management decisions and blundered personnel. No, also because they still refuse to have any redheads on the dance team. Heathens!
• Schadenfreude, thy name is Ted Stevens Getting Raided By The FBI. I really hope they showed up in a BIG TRUCK! In honor of this amazing news, I went back and found the Ted Stevens internet speech techno remix.
• Nerds + Showbiz Pizza + The Rockafire Explosion + New Ms. Booty = AWESOME.
• This REALLLLY deserves its own post but damn if I have the time right now. So Thanks Mitch! Because you caved to the property tax whiners (of whom so many are people who have been paying far under what they should have been for years – I’m looking at you Meridian Kessler District) and put off the new tax evaluations Marion County is going to have a $52 million shortfall. Don’t worry, Indianapolis is only the economic engine for the state you pretend to represent completely (but in the end you just end up representing road construction companies and people who believe your fake accent). A big ol’ hearty middle finger to Mitchie Rich The Amazing Midget Governor.
• I’ve been posting more on CWAMB lately. I have a big post eventually planned for a what-if solution for the NBA: a 50-60 team league with three divisions and European-style relegation. Keep an eye out for it.
• Couldn’t agree more with this at Tapped. The way our politics work, the short sighted politician who only spends money in time of disaster instead of spending money when there is no disaster gets rewarded. The latter just gets yelled at for spending tax money and *gasp* maybe raising taxes. Heavens to Betsy, noooo!
• This is horrifying. Dear Oklahoma, I enjoyed my time there for a national high school student council convention in 1995, but you are now dead to me.
• Mega-Kudos to FCC Commissioner Michael Copps. You couldn’t be more right about the absolutely TERRIBLE broadband policy in this country. Making the link between this and the rampant media consolidation in the US is very nicely done.

I think that’s it? I hope?

As if you needed another reason to use Dreamhost for your websites.

So to me Global Warming is like Truth or Dare:

TRUTH: We can either keep Global Warming in the news and convince people the truth is the planet is warming and we as humans might be causing Global Warming by pumping tons of CO2 into the atmosphere daily so let’s keep the momentum going to educate people about this problem and slowly eliminate the use of fossil fuels.

Or DARE: We can do nothing and DARE to find out what happens if we don’t fix this problem.

By the same author: Global Warming News

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The Myth of Voter Fraud

Identification requirements often sound simple. But some types of paperwork simply aren’t available to many Americans. We saw this with the new Medicaid proof-of-citizenship requirement, which led to benefits being cut off for many longtime citizens. Some states insist that voters provide photo IDs such as driver’s licenses. But at least 11 percent of voting-age Americans, disproportionately elderly and minority voters, lack the necessary papers. Required documentation such as naturalization paperwork can cost as much as $200. By contrast, when the poll tax was declared unconstitutional in 1966, it was $1.50 ($8.97 in 2007 dollars).

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A student has been suspended from school in America for coming to class dressed as a pirate.
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Bryan Killian says that he follows the Pastafarian religion, and that as a crucial part of his faith, he must wear ‘full pirate regalia’ as prescribed in the holy texts of Pastafarianism.

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If you thought the Kirk Cameron/Bananas Are Proof Of God video was funny/ridiculous/frightening, get a load of this – Peanut butter is proof that evolution isn’t true:

I… there’s so much wrong with this it’s difficult to even begin. But the comments on the YouTube page are marvelous.

“They need to do a Wonder Bread segment. Then we could discuss the whole peanut butter and banana sandwich trinity. Anyone?”
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“Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think the Earth was made of peanut butter 3-4 billion years ago.”
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“wasn’t that was the reason for the Peter Pan Recall?
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“When they fill the peanut putter can with a dense soup of hydrocarbons with a layer of dense carbon dioxide laden atmosphere above, zap it with large bolts of electrical energy regularly, and let it sit for a couple billion years, then we’ll talk.”

And now to the silly…

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Speaking of peanut butter … “inside peanut butter outside jelly” … can someone tell me what that means? Is this the moment where I officially turn old because I don’t understand The Kids These Days?

I’ll stick with Peanut Butter Jelly Time. With a baseball bat, of course.

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Making fun of Shaq and his bad free throw shooting never gets old…

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No, this was NOT a good idea.

Yes, it was the wind.

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Peyton Manning in what is regarded as his funniest sketch on SNL.

“I’ll kill a snitch. I’m not sayin’ I have, I’m not sayin’ I haven’t”

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Someone at Yahoo Sports is funny. Yes, Robert Horry is old.

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Shaven or unshaven? Wuuuhhhh? There’s GOT to be an explanation for this.

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Heh, the true story of Pac Man. I’ll probably be cross-posting this one to CWAMB at some point soon.

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Only in Japan. A “restaurant in Japan has a goldfish tank…in the deep fryer.” No that’s not some new kind of sushi, either.

Just an idea I’m throwing out there. Would you pay $40 for a Carbon Credit license plate? More?

Assclowns.

Thanks to Matt for the photo. I did the edit. This is released on a CC license, redistribute, by attribution, free to remix, non-commercial

I’d like to make one thing clear here – a lot of lefty posters on the original Death of Science thread tried to make out that I was some sort of Luddite opposed to scientific pursuit. This assertion is rather flabbergasting when made against a man who favors a massive increase in spending on NASA. When I say “Science” in this context, I mean that worldview which placed science athwart religion and said the two cannot mix. My contention is not only that they mix fine, but that you can’t really do science unless you are firmly grounded in faith and have a general knowledge of theology.

I will now drive a railroad spike through my temple in an attempt to forget this immense stupidity. I doubt it will work. This is the sort of stupidity that burns forever into one’s mind.