At the office of the people who make Red Bull, you can get from floor to floor by using the slide. And if you work at Google, you have a nice break room… These and other seeeeeriously cool workplaces discussed here (packed with photos!)
Dobson Tells Why Boys Aren’t Glad To Be Boys
Focus On The Family’s James Dobson asks: "Is Your Son Glad To Be A Boy?" and then answers his own question with an apparaent "no". He starts off with some supposedly true anecdotes: "Our son was using our home computer to do some research for a report he’s writing. While doing a search, he accidentally stumbled onto a porn site. … Read More
How To Live To Be 100 Or More
Lay off the following: Alcohol Indulge in the following: Coffee Cigars Sex So says this study of Cuban centenarians. There’s a Clinton joke to be made about cigars and sex, but I’ll leave it to your imagination.
Foley Fallout
It’s rather pathetic to watch the right wing pundits try to spin the Foley mess as a Democratic foible. Jonah Goldberg asks: “Where was the left’s furor over the Clinton sex scandals of the ’90s?”, claiming that Democrats are being a bunch of hypocrites. Well, Jonah — the Democrats DID had furor over the Clinton sex scandal in the 1990’s, … Read More
Obama ’08
Newsweek is reporting that Senator Barack Obama may be seriously looking at a 2008 Presidential bid: Ask Washington insiders about Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential hopes, and you’ll get a pat response: great idea, a cycle or three from now–or maybe this time as veep. But they need to get out more. I’ve talked to Democrats in 10 cities in the … Read More
Boys Will Be Boys (And Girls Will Be, Too)
Yes, it does happen a lot. It’s almost a rite of passage. "Dad goes upstairs to check on boys in shower. Finds hair covering shower floor. Sees older brother hiding Mom’s razor, and younger brother with puzzled expression. Shall I finish the story, or… ?" [See picture at right] "I once did that to my brother with my dads electric … Read More
“The Real Issue”
Billmon: When a 16-year-old boy is not safe from sexual solicitation from an elected representative of the people, we should question the moral direction of our nation," a conservative advocacy group said on Monday. The [Family Research Council] also said Foley’s behavior raises the "real issue" of homosexuality and child abuse. Cybercast News ServiceConservative Group Examines ‘Real Issue’ in Foley … Read More
In Other News
18 U.S. soldiers have been killed in Iraq in the last four days… …including eight U.S. soldiers who died in gunbattles and bomb blasts Monday in Baghdad — the most killed in a single day in the capital since July 2005.
Polls Show GOP Hurt
Wall Street journal/NBC poll: The survey shows that by 41%-18%, Americans say recent news developments have made them less favorable toward continued Republican control of Congress; by 34%-23% they called themselves more favorably inclined toward Democratic control. It also shows a decline in Mr. Bush’s job approval rating to 39% from 42% earlier this month. Even more problematic for Republicans’ … Read More
The GOP Implosion
John Cole: Wiser folks have said this already, but it is worth reiterating, but the reason this is so damaging to the Republican party is that it resonates with people, pure and simple. There are a lot of facts to this case we don’t know, and the Republicans and the spinmeisters are going to do their level best to muddy … Read More
School Shootings And The Copycat Effect
This blogger is an expert on school shootings and the "copycat" effect. his name is Loren Coleman and he has dealt with the Copycat Effect through his federal government funded research work, books, and media consultations for almost three decades. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of over 25 books, one of which is the acclaimed Suicide Clusters (Faber … Read More
What You Missed
In the local community theater scene, there are several companies from which you can expect a quality production: Little Theater of Winston-Salem, Winston Salem Theatre Alliance, Community Theatre of Greensboro, etc. Then there are other smaller companies (from smaller communities and/or church groups) which lack the budget and personnel and so-on who mount reasonable shows, but it is sometimes a … Read More
Whaddup With Winnie Cooper?
Man, I was so in love with Winnie Cooper from The Wonder Years. Such innocence. Smart, too. Danica McKellar (who played Winnie Cooper) graduated summa from UCLA, and authored this paper somewhere in her education: "Percolation and Gibbs states multiplicity for ferromagnetic Askin-Teller models on Z2" (PDF format) Don’t bother reading it — you won’t understand it either. Saw her … Read More
Tell Me Why
And nobody’s going to go to school today…. Reports of armed teen sparks school lockdowns in Las Vegas Number of people dead in Amish school shooting Yeah, I don’t like Mondays either, but….
Did Neil Armstrong Screw Up?
"That’s one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind." When you think about it, those famous words — perhaps the most famous words spoken in the last century — don’t make sense. Clearly, Armstrong was trying to juxtapose an individual "man" with the greater "mankind". But he left out the "a" before "man", so essentially, he said: "That’s … Read More