Oh, Aaron. You got me. Here I was thinking you were writing a terrible season about some silly journalism scandal while avoiding the relationships of the charactors in HBO's The Newsroom, and it turns out that the silly journalism scandal was a metaphor for how the charactors fail to connect. Well, needless to say, the finale of Season Two of … Read More
Every Viewer Complaint To The FCC About Miley Cyrus (all 161!)
Pretty much what you would expect. The amusing thing to me is that a lot of these people are probably conservative Tea Party types… you know, the ones who hate gubmint because it tries to destroy our freedoms. And yet, here they are asking the FCC to censure. Oh, well. VMA FCC Complaints
Shooters in Washington Navy Yard
Terrible unfolding of events. First it was a lone gunman, and nobody wounded. WaPo is now saying it is three gunman and several are dead…. #BREAKINGNEWS: Police say 1 shooter down, 2 shooters remain in building http://t.co/jmWBtL7CmV #NavyYardShooting — Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 16, 2013 Hmmm… sounds like bad info. Nobody else is saying more than one shooter. And … Read More
Some Ig Noble Prize Winners
MEDICINE PRIZE: Masateru Uchiyama [JAPAN], Xiangyuan Jin [CHINA, JAPAN], Qi Zhang [JAPAN], Toshihito Hirai [JAPAN], Atsushi Amano [JAPAN], Hisashi Bashuda [JAPAN] and Masanori Niimi [JAPAN, UK], for assessing the effect of listening to opera, on heart transplant patients who are mice. REFERENCE: "Auditory stimulation of opera music induced prolongation of murine cardiac allograft survival and maintained generation of regulatory CD4+CD25+ … Read More
Science Again Confirms What We Already Know: Gun Edition
The largest study of gun violence in the United States, released Thursday afternoon, confirms a point that should be obvious: widespread American gun ownership is fueling America’s gun violence epidemic. The study, by Professor Michael Siegel at Boston University and two coauthors, has been peer-reviewed and is forthcoming in the American Journal of Public Health. Siegel and his colleagues compiled data on … Read More
This Happened
I guess a side-benefit of increasing acceptance to gay marriage is that we get to enjoy more of the choreographed proposals:
Voyager 1 Leaves Solar System
I guess it's a little difficult to determine when you're inside the solar system and when you've crossed out of it, but Voyager One is officially out of it, as of August 25, 2012, although we just figgered that out today. It's the first man-made object to leave the solar system. Ever. UPDATE: What it sounds like out there….
Those Who Don’t Laugh At The Past Are Forced To Repeat It
So this happened in 1919: Panorama of the Molasses Disaster site On January 15th, 1919, in what was probably the most bizarre disaster in United States' history, a storage tank burst on Boston's waterfront releasing two million gallons of molasses in a 15 ft-high, 160 ft-wide wave that raced through the city's north end at 35mph destroying everything it touched. … Read More
Here’s What’s Wrong With The Newsroom Season Two
Aaron? You there? Did you stumble on this website because you googled "what's wrong with the newsroom season two"? You did, didn't you? That's why you're here, right? Okay, I'll cut to the chase. I'm fine what you did with the Jim-Maggie-Don thing. That needed doing. And I like Don's growth. He's my favorite charactor now. And I know I'm … Read More
Too Discouraged To Blog
There's this… which is totally true. The headlines this week, buried in the back of your favorite newsite, said: Income Disparity Between Richest 1% And Rest Of US Biggest Since ’20s WASHINGTON (AP) — The gulf between the richest 1 percent and the rest of America is the widest it’s been since the Roaring ’20s. The very wealthiest Americans earned … Read More
World Remembers WTC and Pentagon On The 12th Anniversary of 9/11 Attacks; Fox Commemorates 1st Anniversary of Benghazi
A lot has changed in 12 years.
Sex Education For Kindergarteners
Whaat???? OUTRAGE!!! NEVER!!! KERFUFFLE!!!!! Wait… maybe I should read up on the facts…. CPS [Chicago Public Schools] insists the curriculum will use language children understand and focus on topics like bullying, correct names for external body parts and the difference between appropriate and inappropriate touching. “As you identify body parts, you talk about should you be touched here or … Read More
Pull Up A Chair, NOM. I Have Some News.
From an email from the National Organization for Marriage: How many generations of children will be sacrificed to the gods of the gay lobby who demand the redefinition of marriage as an idol to their political movement? How long will children be told that men and women are not unique, that children don't need a mom and a dad, and … Read More
Oh, Who Cares?
I've been paying close attention to the debate over Syria, and how the United States should respond to the revelation that Assad used chemical weapons to kill over 1,500 of his people, including hundreds of children. And here's what I've figured out: (1) We should bomb in retaliation because this is a clear violation of the Geneva convention and it crosses … Read More