Andymatic

Month: August 2009

  • ‘Air shower’ Cuts Water Use 30%

    The scientists have developed a simple ‘air shower’ device which, when fitted into existing showerheads, fills the water droplets with a tiny bubble of air. The result is the shower feels just as wet and just as strong as before, but now uses much less water… [T]he device increases the volume of the shower stream […]

  • UPS Drops Beck – and ALL Fox News

    Rich Hallabran, spokesman for UPS Stores, said today he has not only temporarily halted buying ads on the Glenn Beck Show but also on the Fox News Channel altogether as reported by AP Television writer via Daily Kos

  • Man Steals Virgin Mary Painting to Finance Abortion for His Rape Victim

    A Nebraska man who stole a painting of the Virgin Mary to finance an abortion for a teen he was accused of raping has been convicted of first-degree sexual assault and felony theft. Aurelio Vallerillo-Sanchez, 39, of Omaha pleaded no contest to the charges Friday and faces up to 70 years in prison when sentenced […]

  • Leaked Memo Proves DEP Head Lied to Congress About Mountaintop Removal

    Though everything seemed to contradict the words of Huffman, it was inconceivable that he would be lying. After all, he was under oath and wouldn’t dare commit perjury. Or we thought until a package arrived at reporter Ken Ward’s office, mailed anonymous with no return address, within it an internal memo written by a respected […]

  • Obama's First Kidnapping

    Unlike terrorism suspects who were secretly snatched by the CIA and harshly interrogated and imprisoned overseas during the George W. Bush administration, Raymond Azar was flown to this Washington suburb for a case involving inflated invoices. Azar, 45, pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy to commit bribery, the only charge against him. He faces a maximum […]

  • Young Second Wives Taxing Brazil's Pension System

    The widespread tendency in Brazil for men to remarry women several decades younger — called the “Viagra effect” — is undermining the country’s pension system, researchers warned Tuesday. The report, by Brazil’s National Social Security Institute (INSS), showed that a trend of men in their 60s marrying women half their age was leaving a big […]

  • CIA Used Power Drill in Mock Execution

    [S]uspected USS Cole bomber Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, was threatened with a gun and a power drill during the course of CIA interrogation. According to the sources, who like others quoted in this article asked not to be named while discussing sensitive information, Nashiri’s interrogators brandished the gun in an effort to convince him that he […]

  • Ann Coulter vs Jeremy Paxman

    Ann Coulter on UK BBC Newsnight interview with Jeremy Paxman

  • Women in Michael Bay Films

    Michael Bay is surprisingly conservative when it comes to the ladies…. Yet Bad Boys II also has a scene where Smith and Lawrence admire a dead woman’s fake breasts. It’s a perfect distillation of Bay’s basic perspective on gender relations: Women are either objects you want to think about fucking, or they’re the girlfriends/wives who […]

  • Dublin's Collapse

    You think that’s psychotic? The Irish economy is in the toilet. The country is almost bankrupt. Unemployment will hit 20% within 6 months. But you still can’t buy a basic 3 bedroom home in Dublin for less that half a million Euro (€ not $). The recession is a year old, but people still can’t […]