Archive of entries posted on 7th November 2011

Nuke the News: Science Hard, No Free Food, and Bearmaggedon

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* So what did Herman Cain do to sexually harass a woman? The accuser won’t tell us. She wants us to know it’s bad, but won’t tell us what exactly it was. Some are calling this a high-tech lynching, but it’s kind like a lynching where no one behind it knows how to tie a knot.

* Study shows we’re falling behind in science and engineering because getting those degrees is hard. Well, as someone who successfully got an engineering degree from one of the toughest schools out there — Carnegie Mellon University — I have this to say: Ha! The more of you who drop the degree, the less engineers there are in the workforce, and the more I get paid. So I have trouble seeing this as a problem. If anything, I want engineering to be harder to get into. Same thing for blogging and being a columnist.

* New Occupy Wall Street: Free food from McDonald’s. When someone had the gall to ask an Occupier to pay for his food, he threw a huge fit and started breaking things. Hey, that give me an idea for a great new mascot for OWS.

* John Hawkins has started a new website: Not Mitt Romney. I have no idea what it’s about.

* The Obama administration has denied that it has any knowledge of extraterrestrial life. Kind of weird they just suddenly came out and said that. Especially as an unknown object hurtles towards earth. And who was that guy standing behind Obama smoking a cigarette while the announcement was made?

Oh, it was just Mark Block.

* Here’s yet another accusation against Herman Cain for sexual harassment. This time it’s from Sunny and she does have details:

* Wisdom of the Day: “Several women now claim Herman Cain exposed himself, raped them and had oral sex with an intern … oh, sorry, that’s Bill Clinton.” –Ann Coulter

* There’s a new web comic out from the artist behind Axe Cop: Bearmaggedon. This time, Ethan Nicole is writing it himself instead of farming out that job to a five-year-old. From the title image, it looks like it’s still going to be full of awesomeness. It’s already posed a great question: Who would win in a fight between a gorilla and a grizzly bear? I tried that on SarahK, and it’s quite a stumper. I kind of want to give the edge to the bear since it has sharp claws, though.

Also, I wish someone would actually make the game that appears on this page. Man, it would relieve so much stress to be able to beat up all of nature.

Anyway, new page comes out every Wednesday and Friday. Check it out and support the arts.

Random Thoughts

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I still don’t get the big certainty Cain has no chance considering his leading in the polls. When are his numbers supposed to collapse? Cain still leads in the polls but has a 5.5% at Intrade, so everyone is super sure he’s going to collapse. But do they have a timeline?

Well, let’s just hope it’s not after the primary.

I wonder if the National Restaurant Association has the problem of heavily armed people showing up who went to the wrong meeting.

I forget: Do we all generally believe Bill Clinton is a rapist or not?

Are we really going to vote for Herman Cain who allegedly did an unwanted unknown thing to an unknown person?

It’s hard when Buttercup is sick because she’s not old enough to understand the phrase “Suck it up!”

If I cared who won the LSU/Alabama game… it would still be pretty boring.

There was so much kicking in that LSU/Alabama game it was easy to mistake it for European football.