The 2015 Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded last night. Scientists stuck tails on chickens, measured animal urination, and unboiled eggs to get these awards.
21 Insanely Beautiful Spots To See Fall Colors Across America. Check each area’s fall foliage report to time your getaway weekend.
NPR fact-checks the Republican debate.
No Sleeping Cats. A short account of the rise and fall of I Can Has Cheezburger and its reality show LOLWork.
15 Critical Facts About ER.
The Ahmed Mohamed fiasco: When racial stereotyping meets scientific illiteracy.
Steven Spielberg said superhero movies will die out the way Westerns did. Here’s why he’s right.
How Scotch, Weed and 'The Big Electron' Conspired to Make George Carlin My Dad. Stories of the late comedian by Kelly Carlin.
The 50 Creepiest Films About Cults. A playlist for an interesting, sometimes absurd, but possibly disturbing weekend of viewing.
So a kid brings a briefcase loaded with batteries, transformers, and wires and the world apologizes but another kid wears a t-shirt with an American flag under a sweatshirt and gets suspended and the US yawns.
ReplyDeleteI'm not familiar with the t-shirt incident. Do you have a link?
ReplyDeleteAhmed was suspended, and arrested. The world may have apologized to him, but the local police and school administration have not.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.fox5ny.com/news/20507938-story
ReplyDeleteTo show you I still like you, here's a tip to a feel good story about a dog that wouldn't leave his buddy
ReplyDeletehttp://www.itv.com/news/2015-09-18/loyal-dog-stands-by-trapped-friend-for-a-week/
Thansk for the dog story! I see the student with the t-shirt did get an apology from the school, and an expunged record. WAY too many overreactions in schools about dress codes.
ReplyDelete