Unqualified Offerings

By Thoreau
Coming soon to a jail interrogation room near you: Microwave heat guns that cause unbearable pain. To be fair, they promise to only use them on settings that do not rise to the level of torture. Beautiful, isn’t it? It took them half a life-time to invent it.

by Mona
PAYPAL IS THE WORST COMPANY IN THE WORLD. In support of John Cole who righteously requests:
*** Update #2 ***
If you have a website, I would appreciate your help making a google bomb. Use the title of this post and link back to me.

By Thoreau
Iran wants to achieve nuclear fusion. Yeah, so does everybody else.  Good luck with that.  It’s the energy source of the future.  Always has been, always will be.

By Thoreau
Not only are we up against several hundred angry men with beards, some of them are also really crappy singers trying to pollute our precious airwaves.
UPDATE:  I have just learned the true agenda of this terrorist cell.

In comments downblog, Gary Farber tries get clever:
The reason losing the Vietnam War was supposed to be a Bad Thing was because it would make the U.S. look irresolute and weak.
We seem to have survived.

Please. We “survived” the humiliation of Vietnam because our only real threat was a nuclear-armed superpower that managed to align itself [...]

By Thoreau
With Arnold Schwarzenegger’s gubernatorial career almost over, are we seeing the beginnings of Phase II of his master plan?
Seriously, one needn’t subscribe to any apocalyptic SF theories to wonder how wise it is to have weapons systems under the control of machines that can operate without human control.  Yes, yes, I am aware that [...]

I don’t think John Sides or Kevin Drum have it quite right on the much-blogged* Pew poll showing a sharp increase in Republicans who believe Barack Obama is a Muslim. As the pretty graph shows and Sides and Kevin make much of, the sharpest increase comes from the better and best-educated Republicans.
Somehow Sides thinks this [...]

By Thoreau
That’s the take-away from this study (not yet peer reviewed) of a large set of students taking the same class at the same school.
When I was their age…

By Thoreau
A shocking news bulletin indicates that smugglers were attempting to bring a tiger cub into Iran.  Tigers are of course an endangered species, as rare as uranium, and zoos around the world are racing to enrich their tiger stocks.  While we can’t be certain of the identity of the intended recipients in Iran, the [...]

By Thoreau
My brother, recovering from surgery, noted that they have yet to write a column with Jim Anchower as a TSA screener, although they did come close in this article:
…members of the actual team of government workers in charge of keeping our country safe each day sought to reassure the [...]