A Must-See poetry slam
I can’t stand poetry slams. But this is required watching:
Why “fair and balanced” is neither
From 1903 through 1908, two young bicycle mechanics from Ohio repeatedly claimed to have built a flying machine. They demonstrated it over and over again to hundreds of people, obtained affidavits from prominent citizens who witnessed their efforts, and even produced photographs of their invention at work.
Nevertheless, Orville and Wilbur Wright were dismissed as frauds and hoaxers in the Scientific American, the New York Herald and by the U.S. Army and many American scientists.
But as Richard Milton points out in his entertaining book, “Alternative Science,” the real shocker is that even local newspapers in the Wrights’ home town of Dayton ignored the story in their backyard for five years.
Lawyer’s Price For Missing Pants: $65 Million
Lawyer’s Price For Missing Pants: $65 Million
When the neighborhood dry cleaner misplaced Roy Pearson’s pants, he took action. He complained. He demanded compensation. And then he sued. Man, did he sue.
Two years, thousands of pages of legal documents and many hundreds of hours of investigative work later, Pearson is seeking to make Custom Cleaners [...]
The pussification of the American male.
We have become a nation of women.
It wasn’t always this way, of course. There was a time when men put their signatures to a document, knowing full well that this single act would result in their execution if captured, and in the forfeiture of their property to the State. Their wives and children would be turned out by the soldiers, and their farms and businesses most probably given to someone who didn’t sign the document.
There was a time when men went to their certain death, with expressions like “You all can go to hell. I’m going to Texas.” (Davy Crockett, to the House of Representatives, before going to the Alamo.)
There was a time when men went to war, sometimes against their own families, so that other men could be free. And there was a time when men went to war because we recognized evil when we saw it, and knew that it had to be stamped out.
There was even a time when a President of the United States threatened to punch a man in the face and kick him in the balls, because the man had the temerity to say bad things about the President’s daughter’s singing.
We’re not like that anymore.
Two tough questions
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Our modern world
Here’s a Mursi tribeswoman holding an AK-47 in one hand and her IPod in the other.
How ’bout those Nobel prizes, folks?
Stats about the Nobel winners:
The following are true facts and verified statistics about some Nobel Prize Winners:
The Global Islamic population is approximately 1,200,000,000, or 20% of the world population. They’ve received the following Nobel Prizes:
Literature:
1988 - Najib Mahfooz
Peace:
1978 - Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat
1994 - Yaser Arafat
Physics:
1990 - Elias James Corey
1999 - Ahmed Zewail
Medicine:
1960 - Peter Brian [...]
Utterly brilliant, as usual
Bill Whittle, master of putting things into words which I haven’t even thought yet, has another great must-read about critical thinking. Do yourself a favor, wontcha?