Month: December 2009

Bad-ass: The female wasp stings the roach first in the thoracic to disable its front legs. Then the wasp stings the roach in brain which disables its escape response causing the roach to groom itself and become sluggish. The wasp proceeds to chew off half of each of the roach’s antennae to hydrate itself and […]

A 13-year old girl sends a picture of her breasts to a male classmate who starts passing it around. The torment starts… and then ends when she kills herself: [T]here is no mention of how the school’s actions also contributed to her being in danger in the first place. The fact is that they punished […]

From Wired – here’s a few of the lessons from everybody’s favorite movie/novel: If a boy tells you to stay away from him because he is dangerous and may even kill you, he must be the love of your life. You should stay with him since he will keep you safe forever. and Men can […]

Robert Reich: But here’s the real worry. The basic assumption that jobs will eventually return when the economy recovers is probably wrong. Some jobs will come back, of course. But the reality that no one wants to talk about is a structural change in the economy that’s been going on for years but which the […]

From Reddit: One day, a lady with a pale little girl came through my line, and said apologetically, “My daughter’s not feeling so well. so I'm kind of in a hurry.” She wasn’t mean about it, she just wanted to let me know. I was pretty fast anyway, so I sped up a little bit […]

Yes. The Bible is a bunch of abortion-mandating, commie, pinko, nonsense: The project’s authors argue that contemporary scholars have inserted liberal views and ahistorical passages into the Bible, turning Jesus into little more than a well-meaning social worker with a store of watered-down platitudes. I’m surprised they didn’t say community organizer. “Professors are the most […]

From a thread on Gawker about the new Jersey Shore reality show on MTV which features the greasy over-tan over-bloated ‘guido’ culture of New Jersey: Commenter A: Language query from a Midwesterner: Is the feminine form “guidette”? Commenter B: Yes, kind of like the feminine of “Midwesterner” is “heifer” Commenter C: Yup. Or ‘whore’. via […]

A scientist in residence in the Antarctic wanders down to a historic site: Robert F. Scott was one of the early British Antarctic explorers. He led two of the most ambitious expeditions into the continent, the Discovery expedition (1901-1904) where he walked around a lot, and the infamous Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913) where he walked […]

Burned Retinas for Jesus: Dr O’Donoghue revealed he is treating five patients for serious eye injuries caused by staring at the sun at recent gatherings at Knock organised by Dublin “spiritual healers” Joe Coleman and Keith Henderson. via It’s no miracle, I could see but now I am blind