Simon ,'Objects In Space'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
At first they didn't understand what was happening, because they just got a phone call that said they were getting the money, and some paperwork would arrive that they'd need to sign. The paperwork came like an hour later, and the money arrives as a lump sum in a couple of weeks.
I keep sending my DH suggestions of how to spend it. I'm not sure he appreciates my input.
The MacArthur Foundation also gave my DH's non-profit $500,000 last week w/ no strings attached to the money.
Yay, money!!! That is so cool.
Sound like those MacArthur folk like to to play around with their grantees!
The MacArthur Foundation also gave my DH's non-profit $500,000 last week w/ no strings attached to the money.
Woot! I love that David Simon got a Genius grant even though I'm fairly bitter about how not good Treme is. Simon has a lot of love capital in reserve.
Basic Religion Test Stumps Many Americans
Forty-five percent of Catholics did not know that their church teaches that the consecrated bread and wine in holy communion are not merely symbols, but actually become the body and blood of Christ.
Congrats Liese and SO!
I've seen a lot of blogs cover this, so....
Tinfoil Tuesdays: UFOs Neutered Nukes, Officers Claim
In space, no one can smell the drifting interstellar cloud of patchouli oil or catch the cosmic hackysack. It turns out to be a crucial human failing, if a group of retired Air Force officers is to be believed. The officers says they’ve encountered UFOs, and surmise that the space creatures are trying to tell an obstinate human race to abandon its nuclear weapons. That’s right: earth is being monitored by intergalactic hippies.
Seven elderly retired Air Force officers called a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington on Monday afternoon — covered, improbably, by CNN — to disclose that they witnessed the UFOs rendering U.S. nuclear missiles temporarily inoperable during the Cold War.
“Whoever are aboard these craft are sending a signal to both Washington and Moscow, among others, that we are playing with fire,” announced longtime UFO researcher Robert Hastings, who convened the gathering. “The possession and threatened use of nuclear weapons potentially threatens the human race and the integrity of the planetary bargain.”
Finally, a UFO story where the aliens actually do something that makes sense, instead of anally probing people and mutilating cattle.
YAY Grantness!
I am going back to work today. This seemed a lot better yesterday than it does this morning,what with the whole morning part and all, but still, yay!
Yay work!