Eric Dezenhall Doesn’t Want You to Learn

Meet the guy who wants to END public access to scholarly publications.

Mike and Freddy at Stripgenerator.com

I just found the Strip Generator … no it’s not as dirty as it sounds … Maybe, for fun, I’ll post more eventually on my “art” blog: Alterside.

We Live in the Future: Rocket Powered Prosthetic

Ok, now this is just seriously cool!

Tucker Carlson: Closet Gay?

It has widely been posited that those who are the most fervently anti-gay, are the most likely to be closet gays themselves.   And nothing says anti-gay like committing an act of violence against a gay person.
Tucker Carlson, that beloved bow-tie-wearing pundit for the right wing, admitted to doing just that. 
On the August 28 edition of [...]

Get Wonked and Track Your Favorite Candidates

A new Blog called Wonkosphere tracks how much “Buzz” each candidate is getting in the Blogosphere.  (BTW, my spell checker seems to know the word Wonkosphere, but NOT Bloggosphere, with neither 1 nor 2 “g’s”)

Why is Football Called Football?

NPR’s Frank DeFord rails against the name of American Football and the extra point:
If football must have the point-after, I say it should be done this way: Have each team that scores a touchdown celebrate in the end zone, and then have people like those awful judges from American Idol determine if the celebration merits [...]