There’s a new ant threat here in Texas and several other southern states. Good news, they’re not giant atomic ants! But these normal sized ants are said to make fire ants look polite, they’re affectionately nicknamed crazy ants:
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May 18 2013
Latest Benghazi attack begins to fall apart
I don’t know if this was planned or just an example of what happens when a person has trouble distinguishing facts from wishful thinking, but the latest iteration in the conservative Benghazi conspiracy theory may have been dealt a mortal blow.
May 18 2013
Atheist op-ed
Found this on a local South African news site. It’s an op-ed on the user-generated section titled A study of Atheism – Untwisting the knickers. I’ve seen worse. Long excerpt below: Link — Are atheists then Satanists? After all, they reject the notion of the God of Abraham, therefore they must be Satanists, right? Wrong …
May 17 2013
Your good ole day guide to marital bliss
Update: Bruce notes in comments that Snopes says it’s likely fabricated but still expresses many such sentiments common at that time. Via the Stephanie Miller show I heard this 1955 guide to marriage, written for the then modern women, I guess? Anyway, it is hilarious. A few side-splitter excepts below the fold:
May 17 2013
Who could have predicted 97% of all climate scientists accept human induced warming?
Who coulda predicted? Umm, anyone who can read at the third grade level? Click image for details.
May 16 2013
Another reason to love Twitter
Wasn’t there an episode of Seinfeld where the sleazy ambulance chasing lawyer paradied the OJ trial and berated Kramer for allowing the defense to get ahold of a key piece of evidence? Something similar happened with the 37th appeal of Obamacare and House GOP loudmouths on Twitter today. My colleagues at Daily Kos grabbed a few …
May 16 2013
NASA picks Near Earth Object for return sample mission
NASA has announced the prime candidate for an ambitious unmanned mission that will visit a Near Earth Asteroid and return a sample of it to earth. The winner is 101955 Bennu, a member of the Apollo group of asteroids roughly half a klick in diameter:
May 15 2013
Send in the clones!
If the usual suspects whine about embryonic stem cell research, it stands to reason they’ll be opposed to anything involving cloning, even if it’s just a future patient’s own gene inserted into an embryonic stem cell. But for the rest of us this looks like a promising breakthrough:
May 13 2013
Gallup tries to own up to giant f*&# up
There can be great profit in giving powerful people the wrong answer, as long as it’s the answer they want to hear. But there’s also times when a wrong answer really is wrong. Polling giant Gallup has issued intent to do that, and I think we can all tell them exactly how to accomplish it …
May 13 2013
Money doesn’t kill people, Austerity kills people
In most any civilized space-time that headline would be unassailable. Remove or reduce food, shelter, and medical care, and more people die. Some get so depressed by facing all of that, they choose the only way out they see. But we live in interesting times, where facts don’t count for a huge chunk of the purportedly most prosperous …
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Steven Andrew is a struggling free lance writer, who supports his blogging habit with a job in the software development industry, and a regular contributor to the popular progressive website Daily Kos. Praise & complaints can be sent to DarkSydoTheMoon-at-goodoldAOL then dot com, or delivered directly on Twitter @SAndrewDKos.
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