Out of Sight, Like a Pumpkin

Bettie Page, dead at 85.

Hi, everybody! I'm still around, just been lazy. Unemployed at the moment, waiting for the results of my drug testing and physical, so...

Fire: The Next Sharp Stick?

Majority of Americans never use physical education after high school.

So, it's been an exciting week for me, and not just due to the epochal election results. I put in my notice at work, and accepted a ful...

Oh, crap. Yma Sumac, dead at 86. Studs, Yma...they say these things come in threes, and two people I admire as immensely at these two mak...

Studs Terkel, dead at 96. On Oral History: "When the Chinese Wall was built, where did the masons go for lunch? When Caesar conquere...

The latest Japanese technology for escaped rhino attacks: Rope netting and wooden sticks.

God Hates Signs.

With Intelligent Design's reputation in tatters, creationists seem to have a new strategy: revive Cartesian dualism .

Opie endorses Barack Obama:

Unemployed, inebriated, wife-beating couch potato concerned about Obama's judgement.

Obama's finally bringing up the Keating Five. I've been wondering what the hell he was waiting for.

Ralph Stanley cuts radio ad for Obama.

I'm speechless. UPDATE: The imbedded video was working, but doesn't seem to be working on my computer right now. In case it'...

Is the Prosperity Gospel to blame for our economic woes?

Nick Reynolds, dead at 75.

An addendum to yesterday's post about Netflix adding the Starz catalog : The picture quality sucks. A lot of the films are pan-and-sca...

Netflix partners with Starz to expand its "Watch Instantly" line-up. Going through the list, I found quite a few movies worth wa...

House rejects bailout plan. The Republican alternative, as I understand, is to insure the bad bonds instead of a government bailout. Whic...