You are a complete dick. Let me tell you a couple of things: 1) It is inexcusable for you to have pocketed the host during the catholic mass...
Thats all I have to say about that!
You know, they even did a poll to canvass whether the media wasted too much coverage on his passing.........
Random Thoughts
The true secret to his popularity. Ancient Bling! Sophisticated dentistry allowed Native Americans to add bling to their teeth as far back a...
Today's History Lesson: Isreal
On May 14, 1948, the State of Isreal was proclaimed. For those of us who have always lived in a world that contained Isreal, the origins of ...
In the news this week......
Well a couple of news items this week left me chuckling to myself. First of all was the ill-advised photo op of Air Force One over New York....
Treasures of the Web: New Digital Library
National libraries around the world, in connection with the UN education agency, put some of humanity's earliest written works online to...
Another Robin Hood?
The more people tell me that there's no such thing as an original idea in Hollywood, the more I believe it. I saw this picture on the we...
No Pardon for William Wallace (Again)
In the news this week: Two miscarriages of justice watchdogs have ruled that the name of Scots hero William Wallace can never be cleared. Th...
On This Day: The Red Baron is shot down by a Canadian
On this day in 1918, in the skies over France, Manfred von Richthofen, the notorious German flying ace known as "The Red Baron," i...
Auto Maker Bailout Would be Unnecessary If:
Instead of producing this crap for years, GM had produced this type of product: Demand equals sales. Sales equals revenue. Revenue equals jo...
Cool Stuff from the Past 2: A Roman Joke Book
We were talking in the office the other day about how old jokes keep recirculating and sometimes the punch line varies depending on the audi...
Cool Stuff from the Past: Fish Trap
Google Earth is good for something. Recently, an amateur archaeologist found this 1,000 year old fish trap in Britain. It was designed to ac...
Vampire Found: Lestat or Edward?
Neither. This one is a female. This month, a skeleton was exhumed from a grave in Venice and is being touted as the first known example of t...
Austrailian Wildfires
Australia is really suffering under this season's wildfires. They are the worst in decades and have already claimed close to 200 lives. ...
The Day the Music Died.
On this day in 1959, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson were killed when their plane crashed minutes...
It's Groundhog Day!
In 1887, Groundhog Day was celebrated for the first time at Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. According to tradition, if a g...
Cool Panoramic Picture of the Inauguration
Now this is cool. Last year, I posted a similar picture of DaVinci's last supper. (Spelling corrected. Thanks Paige) If you go here , yo...
Comes a Time.
Like many people, I have watch this weeks inauguration with awe. Like many people, I have had dozens of thoughts on the new President. Here ...
Edgar Allen Poe
Born on this day in 1909. It would make him 200 years old today. Died October 7, 1849 at the age of 40. He lived a rather sad, alcohol ridde...
Do sunken aircraft make good fish sanctuaries?
Sorry for the double post on the same news story, ya' just don't see this every day! So how deep is the Hudson River? How the heck a...
Hero
Shortly after taking off from a New York airport, this commuter jet ran into a flock of geese and lost power (I am still suprised what birds...
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