I received an urgent "action alert" email this morning from the Parent's Television Council: MTV Assaults Families With Nonstop Profanity on Movie Awards Show! On Sunday night, June 6th, the MTV cable network shattered all previous records for profanity on its telecast of the MTV Movie Awards. This program was shown starting at 9:00 p.m. ET — only 8:00 p.m. … Read More
Life In This Solar System (Not On Earth)?
Something is consuming the hydrogen and acetylene on Titan, one of Saturn's moons. What could it be? Some scientists believe it might some sort of life form (or precursor to life). Acetylene is a necessary element for methane-based life forms. (Just so you know, everything on Earth is a water-based life form).
Whoomp, There He Is?
Some people think the guy at the 1:01 mark is Obama. Of course, the video was made in 1993, when Obama was a Harvard Law professor doing community organizing work in Chicago. So, it's kind of hard to believe that he would be in a rap video.
The Latest In Arizona Hate
Unreal: A group of artists has been asked to lighten the faces of children depicted in a giant public mural at a Prescott school. The project's leader says he was ordered to lighten the skin tone after complaints about the children's ethnicity. But the school's principal says the request was only to fix shading and had nothing to do with … Read More
Prop Quiz
Q: What do TV shows Dallas, Remington Steele, Scrubs, Desparate Housewives, as well as the movie No Country For Old Men have in common? A: They've all used the same prop newspaper.
Question of the Day
Why, oh why, oh for the love of God WHY does the mass media cater to the paranoid and prudish sensabilities of society's more paranoid and prude? Read about the theatre ad that the Philadelphia Inquirer was to skittish to run.
Too Hot For The Bank
Busy day today, and much going on in the world, but I choose to write about (well, point to) this: This is Debrahlee Lorenzana who was fired from Citibank in Midtown Manhattan for (according to her lawsuit) being too hot: Her bosses told her they couldn't concentrate on their work because her appearance was too distracting. They ordered her … Read More
Visualization of Oil Spill Over Your Home
Here's what the oil spill would look like if it was centered at my home: Try it yourself.
Hurricanes and the Oil Spill
With hurricane season upon us, questions are being asked about the effect of hurricanes on the oil spill and, conversely, the effects of the oil spill on hurricanes. NOAA has the "answers", although it involves a lot of guesswork, since there's never been a situation where a major hurricane passed through an oil slick of this size. I have reprinted … Read More
How The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Has Turned The Right Wing Into Socialists (and Hypocrites)
Crazy Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), like many of her fellow Republicans, isn't satisfied with the federal response to the BP oil spill disaster because — get this — she wanted to see the federal government seize control and ownership of more private property. Seriously. "Where were the boats that could have been commandeered by the government to be sent into this … Read More