Doc 40

Maybe it’s just a drab Saturday, lacking in fun and short on energy and finding it hard to maintain the bloom of optimism, but ...

NRDC brought the good news that maybe those petitions we sign actually do some good. “Yesterday a federal court ruled in our ...

My pals Peromyscus and Elf Hellion both delivered the news that Vampires Stole My Lunch Money had been voted #2 Post-Elvis ...

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The following story had to come out of the UK before it gained any traction. And I’m running this report of how Latin American le...

I post this tale from The Miami Herald with the reservation that a dachshund-Chihuahua cross would seem like a piss-poor...

Vidor Frozdick took severing dependency on fossil fuels very seriously.

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You know when Paris Hilton appears to be smoking almost as much dope as Willie Nelson, the shit is no longer a countercultu...

Finn sez, “Schizophrenia isn’t all you need to worry about.” “Johns Hopkins University scientists trying to determine why peopl...

The online version of Foreign Policy has a informative piece on Chinese sci-fi. (See last Friday) But it’s gimmicked so I can’t l...

Click here for Bruce (although it’s not about squirrels)

(Image lifted from World of Wonder ) Click here for the Space Aliens Pizza franchise.

It’s just another scenario waiting to happen… “Solar Flare this August 2010 Happens Tonight, Aurora Borealis is Expected – A s...

Our pal DH draws our attention to a film called Flicker. ( Click here .) “Flicker is a film by Nick Sheehan. It’s a look at artist/writer ...

Take the poll from back in the day… THE MANHATTAN PROJECT POLL ON THE USE OF ATOMIC WEAPONS, JULY 1945. “This is the straightforward poll...

"They forgot the roll and they only kept the rock. The roll’s the whole damn thing dude, the rock is nothing, deal with it...

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I once shared a house in New York with a cat generally known as The Wombat who had an unnatural passion for Cheese Doodles. For his sake alo...

Many people across the country have come out publically to criticize Target Corp. for donating $150,000 to help Tom Emmer, ...

I love this stuff (more from our pals at Delancey Place )… "On 18 September,1837, Jack Whicher became a police con...

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Charity Frozdick firmly believed that practice made perfect.

Lifted from Boing-Boing Click here for the so totally obvious

I must confess that I don’t really get the need for Gov. Bill Richardson – who generally seems fairly well balanced for a politician – to is...

I had never heard this story until I read about it on Common Dreams . "FOX News host Glenn Beck's reportedly Germ...

Click here for the Stones (rolling) Click here for Jimi (rolling) Click here for Bob and the Stones (rolling)

I think I can handle ice cream with a shot of absinthe. "For many people, really good ice cream is akin to sex. Fo...

“Chocolate or vanilla is no longer the binary choice.”

And so do we. “Why does the Obama administration keep looking for love in all the wrong places? Why does it go out of its way to...

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If you’re the kind of person who carries hand sanitizer at all times, and wears surgical gloves to use a public doorknob, ...

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I thought Bat Boy had died right along with the Weekly World News , but seemingly he has been reincarnated a bobblehead. ...

And a young Joan Collins? Click here for Jeff Beck

Science fiction has never taken all that much notice of China. In some respects, it’s a kinda conservative genre. Now th...

My cup runneth over. Encore Westerns is now running episodes of Have Gun – Will Travel daily at 6.40pm (Pacific). It was the ...

Regular readers will be aware I have a fascination (along with Have Gun – Will Travel ) with Nazis in space. Thus, when I stumble...

And what better way to follow Space Nazis than with a link to our pal Munz’s remembrances of his days as a sideman with Kinky Fr...

It might be that, despite any visitors from the future, we’re on our way to discovering the source of all mass in the universe. Whi...

Creationists resist all efforts to drag them, even kicking and screaming, into scientific reality. “Each year, a group of biolog...

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