Steve Benen produced this informative graph showing that the rate of new jobless claims before and after the Obama stimulus took effect: Yesterday’s number was one of the lowest since 2008, before the Great Recession began. See Steve Benen’s post … Continue reading
From Jimmy Kimmel Live: by … Continue reading
Dr. Pentti Arajärvi, husband of Finnish President Tarja Halonen, tries not to be too obvious about checking out Danish Crown Princess Mary: In fairness to Dr. Arajärvi, all straight men automatically pay attention to bosoms. I once realized that the … Continue reading
In the January/February issue of The American Rationalist S.T. Joshi reviews the book Faith No More: Why People Reject Religion by Phil Zuckerman, just published by Oxford University Press. Pitzer is a professor of sociology at Pitzer College (located on … Continue reading
Failblog.org has another amusing entry, specifically this one listing alleged responses from elementary school students to questions about dating and marriage. Examples: Q. How do you decide who to marry? A. No person really decides before they grow up who … Continue reading
When a friend of mine described this as one of the funniest mysteries he’d ever read, I thought it was worth hunting up, and it was. Ethelred Tressider (his parents assured him he was named after King Ethelred the First, … Continue reading
Here’s a fascinating web page that lets you zoom in and out with a slider at the bottom to see objects on different scales, starting with the size of a human being and zooming out to see the size of … Continue reading
It’s London in 1939 and Guinevere Pettigrew (Frances McDormond) has just been fired — again — as a governess. Worse, she’s lost the suitcase containing her worldly goods. Lacking even money for food, she desperately presents herself at the home … Continue reading
A hole in time in the storage room of a Maine diner allows passage to a specific instant in 1958, and after a couple of experimental visits the protagonist embarks on a longer trip in order to undo several tragedies … Continue reading
A high school girl in Rhode Island, the daughter of a firefighter and a nurse, is facing death threats and widespread hatred for supporting the U.S. Constitution. In the 1960s her public school had placed an eight-foot-tall prayer on a … Continue reading