Archive for October, 2008
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Friday, October 31st, 2008Obama on “selfishness” and success: “The point is, though, that… when we actually make sure that everybody’s got a shot – when young people can all go to college, when everybody’s got decent health care, when everybody’s got a little more money at the end of the month – then guess what? Everybody starts spending [...]
Sign of the Apocalypse: Child Pilloried for Halloween Drawing
Friday, October 31st, 2008Give me a fricking break: When Pooler fifth-grader Jordan Hood drew a bloody vampire in art class, it scared a teacher so much she reported him to the principal and campus police. Homeroom teacher Melissa Pevey said drops of blood dripping down the vampire’s face looked a lot like gang-related teardrop tattoos. And she said [...]
Scientists on the Way to Rerouting Past Paralysis
Friday, October 31st, 2008This is utterly amazing stuff: Though it will be years before spinal bypass surgery reaches even the clinical-experiment stage, researchers at the University of Washington (UW) and the Washington National Primate Research Center, both in Seattle, have figured out a way to get macaque monkeys in their lab to manipulate temporarily paralyzed muscles in their [...]
From the Grave: Ayn Rand on the Financial Crisis
Friday, October 31st, 2008A reminder of Ayn Rand’s brilliance: One of the methods used by statists to destroy capitalism consists in establishing controls that tie a given industry hand and foot, making it unable to solve its problems, then declaring that freedom has failed and stronger controls are necessary. – The Ayn Rand Letter, Vol. III, No. 25, [...]
Hubble Captures Galaxies “Right” After Collision
Friday, October 31st, 2008My freaky Halloween picture: two galaxies, post-collision. Wow.
Tito the Builder Defends Joe the Plumber
Friday, October 31st, 2008Via Little Green Footballs, here’s Tito the Builder. It’s nice to be reminded that there are true Americans left out there.
Hubble Captures Galaxies “Right” After Collision
Friday, October 31st, 2008My freaky Halloween picture: two galaxies, post-collision. Wow.
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