Russian Fire Fetishism and Fire-Fighting Tanks
As a 430,000-acre series of wildfires burns near Moscow, bathing the city in an acrid, toxic smog and contributing...
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Teabaggers Add Cream to Wikileaks Scandal, Make it Mildly Gayer
The front page of the New York Times today has a story about Pfc. Bradley Manning, the reputed source...
The Curious Fate of the Muffin Man
Yesterday’s New York Times ran a story on the plight of former Bimbo executive Chris Botticella. Get your mind...
Mr. Twister, the Meter-Feeding Clown
So the story goes this way. About fifteen years ago there’s this clown in Santa Cruz, okay? Okay, back...
Do You Need an Exorcism? Take the Quiz!
Imagine my chagrin this morning when I saw perched ominously atop my usual stack of Gmails complaining about my...
Dot Matrix Dies of Cerebral Aneurysm
If, like me, you were stupid enough to have watched TV in the late ’70s, you saw Shields and...
Engineers Turn Robot Arm Into F1 Racing Simulator
There have been a number of Formula 1 racing simulators created, from desk-based articulated chairs (scary!) to Red Bull’s...
Parents Lose Custody of Son Named Adolf Hitler
Image: Kitler does not approve of your nonconsensual fascism. It’s a news item so crazy, it must be shared...
The Thing About Bats
In the Bad News About Bats department, ScienceNews.org reports on a story in the August 6 Science that an...
“Gothic Kittens” Are Not Cute
In researching the oh so hilarious comedy bits for an upcoming post on the extinctions of bats, I ran...