I think this story, which maybe five people have heard about, is far more interesting than this story, which has been beaten into our brains for weeks. It meets all the criteria for Broadcast Overkill Candidate. Thus, a story that probably belongs in the "local interest" category of the news is covered ad nauseum throughout all media, day in...day out. We should all feel like a cluster of seals, being clubbed mercilessly by blubber-hungry Inuits.

Orp! Orp! Orp!

But getting back to that first item, I like any headline that ends with "...perplexes scientists." It could be anything. "Butter Smudge on Window of Rural Diner Perplexes Scientists", or "Little Yellow Fuzzy Thing Stuck in Buick Radiator Perplexes Scientists. Doesn't matter. When scientists announce their befuddlement, I'm all ears.

Just in case you need yet another reminder of how idiotic political correctness has become, here's another example. Tiger Woods criticized for calling himself a "spaz" on the greens at Augusta. ATTENTION EVERYONE WHO IS OFFENDED BY THIS: DON'T BE SUCH A SPAZ.

Y'know, I wouldn't be surprised if a law is eventually passed that prohibits the hurting of one's feelings.

Thanks to the Onion for following up on Tom Delay's latest endeavors.

If life can thrive in a place like this, it really makes ya wonder...

Leave it to France to cave in to this. Is it any wonder that France can't compete?

Oops! There goes the impressive theory without a theory brought to us by the ever-brilliant Charlie Sheen! Poof! Just like that...Well, at least Charlie might shut the fuck up now, which is nice.

Looks like the devil has been spreading more of his fossil temptations around the globe...burying them eon-deep just to make sure that our faith is really tested. Oh, that crazy Lucifer!

I was watching Nova the other night. The one about the Huygens-Cassini mission, how they solved a bazillion daunting problems, and how they were able to take some pretty amazing pictures of Saturn's rings and the surface of Titan. By the end of the show, I felt like I haven't accomplished anything in my life.

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