WTF

Stupidity alert: code red

Actually, I’m not entirely convinced that this video is not a hoax:

What do you think? Fake video? Or is this person genuinely this stupid?

Expand the Boycott!

Apparently McDonald’s is under boycott for “supporting the gay agenda” by having representatives on the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce. I support the right of people to boycott McDonald’s for this reason if they so choose, but, as usual, the forces behind the boycott are being hypocrites and inconsistent. Ed Brayton over at [...]

I am a Bad Person

While my heart aches for the loved ones of the poor fellow who lost his life in a seemingly random and undeniably brutal attack, my first thought upon reading this article was, “There can be only one”. Though you’d think the immortals would be more subtle than to behead each other on a Greyhound bus.
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Fearmongering For Your Kids

Via BoingBoing, I found this:  Ballistic Bookbag.  Just in case your kids aren’t terrified enough about returning to school, you can now buy them a backpack that can help prepare them for shooting incidents.  According to the website, "[A ballistic panel] is integrated into the high quality and stylish backpack in production. A ballistic panel [...]

Today’s Very Strange Story

Eight unidentified skeletons found in Florida forest.
Basically, police received a call that a human skull had been found in a forest in Florida.  Upon investigation, detectives found the skeletons of eight white men between the ages of 18 and 49.  All of them appeared, based on the remains, to be in good health, even to [...]

The Latest Apocalypse

Watching a History Channel show about the Mayan prophecies about the end of the world, which apparently will happen in 2012.  On December 21, to be exact.  This will be the greatest and most horrific global apocalypse since the world ended on 5/5/05, 5/11/01, and 1/1/2000, and will certainly surpass the global catastrophe that destroyed [...]

Amazing! Einstein’s theory raises possibility of Humans from other universes de-stabilizing

Einstein’s theory raises possibility of Humans from other universes de-stabilizing Earth into violence.
Seriously, though, this is probably one of the most amazing examples of an expert’s name being abused to support some crank’s pet theory that I’ve ever seen.  As far as I know, Einstein said very little, if anything, about the probability of "other [...]