One proton torpedo?

Do you really believe the Death Star was destroyed by a single proton torpedo? Or are you ready to ask uncomfortable questions?

Slate on Being Vegetarian

Before los bros. Paci email this to me, here it is.

Though I do wish more restaurants would go to the tremendous hassle of having two meat-free dishes. That way I'd visit them more than once a year.

Quote of the day

"Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something."

Robert Heinlein, Time Enough For Love -- US science fiction author (1907 - 1988)

CNN Supports Clinton

Ok, well maybe not. But the hatched job they're doing on Michelle Obama makes it seem that way! Evidence? I need evidence?

OK, here's all the evidence you need...


She looks like a freakin Muppet. Is there a better picture of her out there somewhere? Well, she might have been raised by her Muppet Grandmother. Maybe it's not a hatched job after all.

Oh well, I can be sensationalist too, you know.

--Mike

NPR Silliness

The other day on NPR, they were doing a story about a real-estate bubble bursting in a foreign country (probably somehow still Bush's fault), and interviewed a guy named Martinez.

The reporter did the sensitive-worldly-NPR-correspondent thing and Latined up the "t" and rolled the "r", so the name came out "Marrrdtineyz".

The thing is, the foreign country in question is Spain, so the "z" should sound like the "th" in "speech therapy", not like the "z" in "fuzzy-headed liberal": "Marrrdtineth". Dumbass.