This right here may have saved this election. The judge was not kind to the bullshit Ryan-Romney was spreading about Obama trying to curtail military voters either: [Read more…]
This right here may have saved this election. The judge was not kind to the bullshit Ryan-Romney was spreading about Obama trying to curtail military voters either: [Read more…]
Here’s on the biggest problems with youTube in the view of many. Bill Nye the Science Guy posted a video that read in part: [Read more…]
It was bad enough that the GOP was running around virtually in drag pretending to love women and minorities all week, while quietly or not so quietly nailing down planks on their platform that would more appropriate if read to the illiterate masses by a 14th century small-town crier. Plus Clint Eastwood was up there, a debacle that will be cruelly dissected elsewhere — just not here. Then there was touching witness to the generous side of Romney that We the People and billions dollars worth of media have somehow failed to perceive: [Read more…]
This was a GOP latina who took the podium as part of procedure, some other faction didn’t like the rules. So they started shouting “Go Back Home” and “USA, USA”. Yeah, that happened yesterday too.
It’s not completely clear why what happened actually happened, but apparently a convention attendee or two started throwing food at a black CNN camera person: [Read more…]
Souped up frame rate thanks to interpolation! Yay math!
Mars Curiosity is like a super hero probe compared to her less endowed peers and this week she began proving it. While I’m not planetary geologist, that looks like the spittin image of marine strata exposed by some kind of erosion: [Read more…]
There are times I’m proud of my species, there are times I’m certain we are doomed. This is neither of those, but it’s a depressing reminder that ancient fables still have an unhealthy grip on our primate psyches: [Read more…]
Which explains why the find below is so itneresting to paleontologists and kids alike! [Read more…]
As of PM Eastern Time the National Weather Service shows Hurricane Isaac tracking true and steady for landfall smack dab on the Mississippi delta and passing right over New Orleans on Wednesday morning, seven years to the day Katrina hit that same spot. The landfall range at this juncture is not a lock, the storm could wobble and drift; if it does come close it matters a great deal exactly which side of the city the eye passes over. If Isaac’s center passes just to the east it means the traditionally weaker side of the storm hits NOLA proper. If Isaac jogs a bit to the west that would take the most powerful part of the eye wall right over the heavily populated, low-laying sections that were flooded in 2005.
The good news is, currently, Isaac is not likely to be a major hurricane, i.e. cat 3 or greater. Via Dr. Jeff Masters at the WeatherUnderground: [Read more…]