Dr. James Fetzer and his 9/11 “Truth” movement’s latest evil minion is Tom Delonge, lead singer of Blink 182. In a recent interview with Dr. (of phlosophy not engineering BTW) Fetzer on KAVA FM in San Diego, where he was guest hosting DeLonge stated:
“We do know that the buildings came down in […]
Researchers think they can show that more money doesn’t translate into increased happiness, and conclude:
… people with higher incomes devote relatively more of their time to work, shopping, childcare and other “obligatory” activities. Women … associated those activities with “higher tension and stress.” People with higher incomes spend less time on “passive leisure” activities such […]
To be honest, this story is breaking faster than we can write about it so we are going to link to the excellent Tour de France blog for their thorough coverage. We’ve also asked our cycling expert Luke to take a day to analyze what this means for the tour. We hope to post his […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)From the LAT:
MOSCOW — President Vladimir V. Putin on Wednesday ordered special services to hunt down and “destroy” the killers of four Russian hostages in Iraq.
The Kremlin did not specify whether Russia’s top security agencies, the Foreign Intelligence Service and the Federal Security Service, or others would take the lead in finding the group that […]
Would you cheat on this woman? What if she gave you an annual pass to do so. A “Woman Allowance” so to speak.
As one Salt Lake City newspaper put it “[NBA player] Andrei Kirilenko has been granted restricted free agency - by his wife.”
Here’s the story. Masha Lopatova Kirilenko, a smokin’ hot former Russian […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)MSNBC is reporting that 11 Sunni insurgent groups have made overtures to Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki following his decision to reach out to Sunni’s with a reconcilation plan.
The insurgent groups have offered an immediate halt to attacks, including those on American troops, but they have some demands also:
1. Withdrawal of American troops by 2008
2. […]
1 in 4 women’s purses carrying E Coli
A study was performed on women’s purses where a health team went to a local mall and took samples from the bottom of 50 women’s purses. The purses were swabbed with cotton swabs along the entire bottom of the purses and placed into special containers. The swabs were […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Anyone who’s flown on an airplane whose flight path was going over water has heard the airline song and dance about “in the unlikely event of a water landing…” and what we can do in case we land in water.
Freakonomic’s author Steven D. Levitt writes about his friend, Peter Thompson, who researched the […]
This tattoo (link NSFW) of Puff the Magic Dragon raises three questions:
1. Why do you feel the need to sully the innocence of a friendly magic dragon who lives by the sea in this way?
2. Why in God’s name does anyone feel the need to drive a metal stud thru there?
3. […]
Mayor Sam notes that the LA Department of Animal Services fundraiser at a Hooters outlet in Hollywood has been cancelled by city officials. Once again this demonstrates why city governments are simply no fun. It’s a charity even and Hooters operate legally throughout the city. The slogan wasn’t even sexist, “Hooters for Neuters.”
Of course if […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Maybe they aren’t actually a transvestite gang. Is it possible we will soon see a manifesto from the Shemale Liberation Army (SLA)?
New Orleans City Business reports
that shop owners in the Lower Garden District have been victimized by gang of transvestites since May.
Led by a tall skinny black man dressed in pink jump […]
Imagine, you are sitting in a 120 degree desert, hostile people who all have moustaches are shooting at you, you’re bored and you want to surf some porn, unfortunately the US Army only allows you 15 minutes of internet access a day. What do you do? You say screw it and establish a […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Poll shows ignorance and denial more widespread than previously thought.
DID ARABS CARRY OUT 9/11?
British Muslims: 56% No
French Muslims: 46% No
Indonesia: 65% No
Egypt: 59% No
Turkey: 59% No
Jordan: 53% No
(Source: Pew Center)
h/t: Ace of Spades
tags: islam Terrorism 9-11
I don’t know how to describe this video. It is some sort of Japanese training video set to bubble gum pop music. It appears to be teaching basic phrases that one needs to know before coming to the U.S. such as “I’ve been robbed by two men” and “take anything you want.” If these are […]
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