Daily Archive: October 5, 2011

Oct 05 2011

Breitbart calls for Tea Party to begin civil war: “Fire the first shot”

Andrew Breitbart calls for violence against liberals, claiming that the military will back Tea Partiers like himself if they manage to incite an honest-to-goodness shooting war, not just an information war: “I’m under attack all the time. They call me gay, there are death threats… There are times where I’m not thinking as clearly as …

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Oct 05 2011

A newly minted published fiction author in our midst

Holy hell, Stephanie Zvan got a piece of fiction published in Nature! If you ask me, it’s about time someone published her — I’ve had the privilege of reading a number of her unpublished works; there’s more than one reason she has earned my respect and the only official title I’ve ever bestowed on anyone …

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Oct 05 2011

Bad lip reading makes mediocre songs awesome

An exercise in compare/contrast. First, Canadian Michael Bublé singing his original song, Haven’t Met You Yet. Sorry, fellow Canuck. I’m not feeling this. I’m not really a big pop person. It’s a good song in its way, I guess, but just not my cup of tea. So what can be done to bump it up …

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Oct 05 2011

Mock the Movie: Maniac

Lifted in its entirety from Almost Diamonds because I’m a content-stealing jerk. Have a Twitter account? Have some snark? Have a little bit of time this Thursday night for a deliciously bad movie? If you’re one of those people whose friends have been known to say, “I’m never watching a movie with you again!” this is the …

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Oct 05 2011

RCimT: Science roundup 10/05/2011

Another bunch of science links from the last two weeks to get your brain meats working. Which is the coolest? Which is the most promising? Which makes you violate Occam’s Razor to explain? Which sets your skeptic-sense tingling? Which should, conceivably, convert me to your specific religion? There are no right or wrong answers. Well, …

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