I've heard before about how shortwave radio buffs often stumble on strangeness, but I didn't know that it's actually illegal in some countries to listen to the many eerie random number broadcasts that occupy the nether regions of the radio spectrum. Check this out, and listen to the old Soviet "buzzer" on page 2. It's still going, 25 years and counting. Cree-pee, man. Cree-pee.

Flipping through the channels the other night, I heard some idiot celebrity whose name I forget say that Saddam had been "minding his own business". Let's grade that opinion, shall we? Foolish, naïve, and fortunately, irrelevant. Appropriately enough, the next morning, this small item was added to his resumé. Minding his own business, all right.

Condoleeza Rice would be a national hero in the minds of a vast, practically complete majority in this country...if she wasn't the appointee of a Republican. Particularly a Republican named Bush. Instead, she's a national hero only to anyone who has read her life story, her record, and her impressive talents and credentials. If you don't like Condi Rice, check yourself.

The media is often hard on those who deserve better, and easy on those who deserve much, much worse. Case in point: Britney has released a...a...(I can do this, I know I can do this)...she's releasing a..."greatest hits" album. Many things can be said about this, but I won't let the ire well up. In the voice of Obi Wan, move along...

Another Atlantis was found recently, this time in the Mediterranean. Last year, an underwater city was found off the coast of India. Three years ago, a massive underwater city was discovered off the coast of Cuba. Then of course there's Biminy, and a slew of others. It's not surprising that this one is getting more press than the others, even though they—particularly the find off of Cuba—are far more impressive archaeological sites. This one wouldn't require as much re-writing of conventional wisdom. It wouldn't discredit as many Ph.D. theses. It doesn't threaten academia as much.