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Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov 27 Aug 2013 | 03:44 am
A favorite character trope of science fiction and low budget horror movies is the mad scientist. The mad scientist is a scientist who is, well, mad, or at least eccentric. He works in his laboratory a...
No Feeding the Homeless in Raleigh 27 Aug 2013 | 03:09 am
It seems that it is illegal to feed the homeless in Raleigh North Carolina, if this story in Yahoo News is any indication. A North Carolina church group said they were prevented from handing out food ...
State Over Church 26 Aug 2013 | 05:22 am
The question of same sex marriage wouldn’t concern me nearly so much if it were a matter of everyone being permitted to do their own thing. It doesn’t harm me if two men or two women pretend to be mar...
Call Me Loretta 23 Aug 2013 | 02:09 am
I am beginning to have the strange feeling that I have somehow stumbled into a Monty Python sketch. What brings this feeling on is the news that Bradley Manning wants to be a woman. Call him Chelsea...
Star Birth 23 Aug 2013 | 01:43 am
Everybody in Britain was excited about the birth of the new prince. That’s understandable, considering the importance of continuing the royal line, but astronomers have been recording a somewhat more ...
Bringing Down America 21 Aug 2013 | 02:06 am
In 1969, Vietnam Veteran Larry Grathwohl had a chance encounter with some members of the radical group the Weathermen. Most people would have simply dismissed them as crazy hippies. Larry Grathwohl wa...
Helium Shortage 20 Aug 2013 | 01:46 am
We may be facing a shortage of helium in the not too distant future. This may seem like a trivial problem. We can live without balloons, right? Actually, helium is used for a number of industrial proc...
Gun Free Zones for Politicians 19 Aug 2013 | 04:39 am
Some smart-aleck petitioned the White House to eliminate armed guards for politicians, perhaps on the grounds that what is good enough for the little people is good enough for our leaders. Gun Free Zo...
Bronies 17 Aug 2013 | 05:34 am
I was feeling a little tired today and wasn’t going to write anything at all, but I feel that it is my solemn duty to note the decline and death of Western Civilization. The existence of the strange a...
Richard Dawkins is Right 16 Aug 2013 | 02:09 am
I never thought I would write that sentence. Well, I imagine that he is right about many things in his field of expertise, evolutionary biology. It is when he abandons his field to become a spokesman ...
