New meaning to the term "Bitchin' music"Complaint Choirs Make Whining an Art FormRecently a group of about 100 Tokyo residents put their complaints into a pile and a composer, Okuchi Shunsuke, turned them into a song. Ab…
Richard Dawkins Discovers Homo WindbagusLast night, famed biologist and prominent atheist Richard Dawkins made an appearance on The O'Reilly Factor, and a more illuminating and revealing six minutes of television I can't…
InspiringThe $150 Space CameraBespoke is old hat. Off-the-shelf is in. Even Google runs the world’s biggest and scariest server farms on computers home-made from commodity parts. DIY is cheaper and often better, as Justi…
So, what's wrong with a little harmless numerology?This.A Bolivian religious fanatic briefly hijacked a jetliner from the beach resort of Cancun as it landed in Mexico City on Wednesday, police said. All passengers and…
President Obama indoctrinates nation's youth into socialist agenda of hard work, self-reliance, and academic pursuit!!!! Conservatives/Republicans/the right wing have really gone off the beam on this one. They must lear…
The Journey Continues......Approximately 3.5 million years ago, an early hominid walked across fresh volcanic ash in Laetoli, Tanzania. It was unaware of its place among life on Earth. It was unaware of the amazing and…
What have they, what have they, what have they done to deserve this?An actual news story or an article from The Onion?Pet Shop Boys spurn rescue shelter remixLONDON (AFP) – Electro-pop pioneers Pet Shop Boys turned down…
New York Post Celebrates Black History MonthOh man, here we go. The NY Post ran this cartoon yesterday: Where to begin? I don't know how anyone could interpret this as anything but a comparison of the first African-Am…
Lucy pulls the football away from Illinois museum-goersFrom the Chicago Sun-Times:The tanking stock market has hit the Field Museum's endowment, which has dropped about $95 million -- 30 percent -- leading to salary cuts…
Why I am a member of and contributor to UCSLost among last week's headlines of shoe-throwers and disgraced Illinois politicians was this story reminding me that my modest donations to the UCS are being well spent:Report:…
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