Bonnie Erbe is a moron. I don’t toss around ad hominims like that often. Three incidents and counting. In the last few weeks. So fucking myopic. If yesterday’s Holocaust Museum slaying of security guard and national hero Stephen Tyrone Johns is not a clarion call for banning hate speech, I don’t know what is. Playwright [...]

Male pond skaters forced to ‘sing’ for sex “This is exactly the kind of thing you might expect to evolve in a system where females are vulnerable to forced matings,” comments Tim Birkhead of the University of Sheffield, UK, who in 2007 published evidence that female mallard ducks have intricate vaginas allowing them to send [...]

Fact or Fiction: Dogs Can Talk Nothing in the last century has really changed that scientific opinion. (No one has ever questioned whether dogs communicate with each other, but calling it “talking” is something else.) So what are Maya and her cousins doing? It’s more appropriate to call it imitating than talking, says Gary Lucas, [...]

I’m taking a basic macroeconomics course over the summer (gotta raise that GPA, eh) and I’ve become more and more amazed about how pro-free trade it is. There has not been one positive statement regarding tariffs, quotas, embargoes or taxes. In fact, taxes and trade restrictions have been the primary target for criticism. Which makes [...]

Swatara Township restaurant owner feeds the unemployed The United States welcomed John Pham in 1979 when he was a child and had moved from Vietnam to make a new life. Now Pham, owner of Ninh Kieu restaurant in Swatara Township, wants to return the favor. “This country has been good to me,” said Pham, 40. [...]

Christ, this might be the best meme ever.

From Time Magazine. (thanks to the new shelton wet/dry.) For some reason, I suspect this is the result of some very clever – and very amusing – trolls.

H/T to Progressive Buddhism. I’m definitely checking this out ASAP.