World’s Cartoonists Get Back at Assad After Brutal Dictator Broke Artist’s Hands
Last week, Ali Ferzat, a popular political cartoonist in Syria, was adbucted and beaten and left bleeding on the side of the road in an attack blamed on … Read more
Blogs
Various blogs, featuring humor, oddities, news and interesting items.
Richard Dawkins on evolution, Republican candidates
A politician’s attitude to evolution is perhaps not directly important in itself. It can have unfortunate consequences on education and science policy but, compared to Perry’s and the … Read more
Bidder 70 Speaks
From a post by Kelly Fragale at Reality Sandwich Tim DeChristopher posed as a bidder in a government held oil and gas land auction. He successfully won … Read more
Iceland’s On-going Revolution
Excerpted from a post by Deena Stryker on Daily Kos An Italian radio program’s story about Iceland’s on-going revolution is a stunning example of how little our media … Read more
Germany’s Trains Going Carbon-Free
(Reuters) Germany’s Deutsche Bahn announced today that it intends to have the German rail system carbon free by 2050. “Deutsche Bahn says it wants to raise the percentage … Read more
The Iceland Solution
From La Muse Verte. Link to full original source at the end. An Italian radio program’s story about Iceland’s on-going revolution is a stunning example of how little our … Read more
Signs And Portents
What with the economy and the abrupt end of the Aztec calendar come next December at the solstice, there’s a lot of talk about the End of the … Read more
Lost Journal: Singing the Phrases of the Olive Garden
By Tim Mollen Journal entry: June 25, 1993 (age 24) Everyone should be required to wait tables at some point in his or her life. You have no … Read more
Forlorn Shipwrecks Of The Desert
When I was a boy learning geography, the Aral Sea was the fourth largest lake in the world. Even then its salinity was so high that it was … Read more
