Unqualified Offerings

John McCain is the downer cow of American politics.
David Gregory of MSNBC’s Race for the White House seems to hate Barack Obama so much that one hopes Obama’s secret-service detail has a profile on him.
People say we need a massive government program to increase usage of the word "peripatetic," but I think Matthew Yglesias, about [...]

By Thoreau
Creationists evolve, despite the mental gymnastics that they employ to deny such a process.  Originally they were proclaiming a 6 day creation.  Then they realized that they needed some science, so they waved their hands about floods destroying the evidence.  Then they realized that flood geology wouldn’t fly, so they started preaching the Gospel [...]

By Thoreau
From Nature:
When Pakistan ran an advertisement campaign last year telling citizens what to do if they stumbled upon radioactive material, it raised eyebrows in the West. Now Pakistani authorities have discovered two radioactive containers of unknown origin, bringing into further doubt their ability to keep track of nuclear material.
The sealed containers were dug up [...]