If the Teaparty was worried Occupy Wall Street would steal their grassroots thunder, they may have been right. The same poll showing Barack Obama out in front of the GOP frontunners demonstrates OWS has swiftly surpassed the Teaparty in popularity, by a factor greater than two, summed up here by Daily Kos: [Read more…]
Like a zombie rising from repeated bullets to the brain, the Republicans have proposed what they call the real jobs plan, and guess what’s in it? No seriously, take a wild guess? [Read more…]
Via Daily Kos, a new poll conducted by TIME/ABT SRBI has a ton of great info. But the most surprising was it shows Obama with a solid lead over Mitt Romney, and the President leaving GOP primary contenders Herman Cain and Rick Perry in the dust: [Read more…]
It’s strongly suspected that Mars was warmer and wetter in the past. It had to be above the freezing temperature of water at various times for the geological evidence uncovered by a suite of probes to make sense. But now we have the first hard estimate of just how warm ancient Mars may have been: [Read more…]
This giant prow as seen by a digitally reworked image provided by Dawn rises three times higher above the surrounding crater basin than Mt Everest is above sea level on earth. Click to embiggen
The headline reads Phillip Winikoff, 81, Allegedly Impersonated Doctor, Performed Breast Exams, and I have to admit, for a moment or two there was a little adolescent giggle bubbling up inside me. Then it struck me that this kind of shit could get someone killed. A misdiagnosis on breast cancer for example could waste valuable time and cost lives: [Read more…]
Herman Cain is the current conservative fave in the not-Romney GOP race to the bottom. Because the Teaparty thinks the problem with the economy is there aren’t enough part-time minimum wage pizza delivery jobs:
Cain checks in as the first choice of 27 percent of Republican voters in the poll, followed by former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney at 23 percent and Perry at 16 percent. After those three, it’s Texas Rep. Ron Paul at 11 percent, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich at 8 percent, Bachmann at 5 percent and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman at 3 percent.
The thought of running against a repugnant, delusional megalo-maniac is a pleasant one. But how long can Cain stay on top if, or rather when, retirees — and those of us within bottle-rocket range of retirement — discover his center-piece 9-9-9 plan is not only somewhere between nationally devastating and ludicrous, it would cut off Social Security and Medicare?
So a little while ago at one of my day jobs we were all marched into a meeting to discuss unauthorized Internet usage. At which point the speaker tells us, “You can now use the Intertnet as much as you want, just keep it work appropriate.”
Totally unexpected.
So join me @SAndrewDKos or where ever as I burn company bandwidth to the fucking ground.
The Black Death, a real life horror show that reverberates into our own era. Think of Halloween, or zombie movies, with the ravenous undead parading around in ghastly make up. Not to mention the suite of autoimmune diseases many descendants of the lucky survivors are, please pardon the term, plagued with. [Read more…]
Yes, Russian crypto-pseudo zoologists who have nothing to gain — except fame and fortune through books, tapes, and tourism — are, once again, claiming they have incontrovertible proof for a living Yeti. Except the bullshit and backpedaling begins right away:
Russian researchers looking for the yeti — the Asian version of the North American Bigfoot — claim to have found “indisputable proof” of the long-sought mystery beast in Siberia. There isn’t a ton of evidence to work with — just a few strands of hair and some tracks in the snow — but it’s enough that the research team says its 95 percent sure that the yeti exists. Others, however, are mighty skeptical of the findings.
Of course, a few strands of yak hair and some markings in the snow. LOL, oh yeah, it’s bullet proof man! You know what would really be indisputable proof for a Yeti? A Yeti.