Yeah, WTF is up with Lieberman? Why doesn't he just become a Republican? (That's not a rhetorical question.)
Welcome to my world, where in the race to fill Frist's Senate seat I'll have a choice between voting for current Representative Harold Ford , who's just barely a Democrat (he's voted lockstep with Republicans on the War, DOMA, and the recent Anti-Bill of RightsTerrorist legislation), or Bush crony Bob Corker.
Ah well, I disagree with a LOT of Ford's positions, but can at least respect that he's moderate on some issues and has the courage of his convictions. I know almost nothing about Corker's mayoral tenure in Chatanooga, but the fact that he's in tight with Bush makes me think he must be either be an oil-funded incompetent or a criminal.
The 2006 Ig Noble Prizes have been awarded. The actual Ig Noble site is currently slashdotted, though.
I think the spaghetti research is quite interesting.
Okay. Slept two extra hours. Effect? Approximately nil.
ION, the Mars Recon Orbiter has a really freakin cool camera, and it took pictures of Opportunity Rover, just as the rover got to a really big hole in the ground.
“I’m looking at the data,” said Ron Luce, who organized the meetings and founded Teen Mania, a 20-year-old youth ministry, “and we’ve become post-Christian America, like post-Christian Europe.
Thank God.
Heh. I was thinking more like "not fast enough".
The 2006 Ig Noble Prizes have been awarded. The actual Ig Noble site is currently slashdotted, though.
This year's winners were boingboinged today (for their groundbreaking research on curing hiccups with a finger up the butt), so I'm sure that's why. And last night, the BBC world service had a big hi-larious story on the Ig Nobels, featuring an interview with the gay mallard necrophilia guy. I think the Ig Nobels are just too much for the poor internet to handle....
I look like Sparky? Mucho excellento.
I missed this idea from Teppy, yesterday. So cool!
::wanders through thread singing tunelessly, "My doppleganger is the prettiest doppleganger ev-ah!"::
LaHood was being interviewed on the radio when I left work yesterday, and he was spouting that "get rid of the page program" drivel, but his contention was that, not only was it putting the children in the program at risk (as the interviewer said, "You mean to tell me that you don't trust any of the 534 remaining members of Congress around teenaged kids?!?"), but the entire concept of having the pages do busywork/courier service on the floor was outdated. He feels that shifting the pages into more of an intern setup, with them assigned to specific Congress members offices, would be more useful.
Apparently, he said some vaguely antigay comments before I began listening to the interview, people were calling in response to those when I tuned in, and he spent a lot of the remaining interview covering his ass (the usual "I didn't intend to say that, and if it came out sounding like that, I'm sorry" BS).
