This past May, Swiss inventor and flyer Yves Rossy flew around the Grand Canyon using his flying rig, which looks a lot like a combination of the stubby-winged flying rig used by Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story and the jet-propulsion … Continue reading
I’m not sure what you call this, but it seems wasteful: by … Continue reading
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According to Matthew Vadum’s American Thinker article “Registering the Poor to Vote is Un-American”, “It is profoundly antisocial and un-American to empower the nonproductive segments of the population to destroy the country — which is precisely why Barack Obama zealously … Continue reading
As The Washington Monthly‘s Steve Benen pointed out on Thursday, Senator Joe Lieberman (I-Connecticut) gave a talk that day at the National Press Club in which he complained that the Obama administration prefers to criticize “violent extremism” as opposed to … Continue reading
A Star Trek theme part is coming to a seaside resort in the Middle Eastern country of Jordon, according to this article from The National, an English-language newspaper in the United Arab Emirates. Britain’s Daily Mail reports that the project, … Continue reading
Wolfgang Wagner, editor of the online scientific journal Remote Sensing, has resigned after criticism for publishing a paper about climate models that was outside the journal’s normal subject area and drew criticism from a number of scientists. Wagner wrote in … Continue reading
Here’s Stephen Colbert showing an extended clip of CNN news anchor Anderson Cooper, who goes into an uncontrolled giggling fit after making a not-really-all-that-funny schoolyard pun. The Colbert ReportGet More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive … Continue reading
Another one courtesy of the “Wins!” section at Failblog.org: by … Continue reading
As summarized here, a report from the non-partison Congressional Budget Office concludes that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, commonly referred to as “the stimulus,” led to an additional 1 to 2.9 million jobs. The stimulus was widely criticized as … Continue reading