I’ve discovered a new site. Bear with me as I overwhelm you with links from there in coming days.
Overall, not a bad list, even though there’s a bit too much of the Grindhouse flicks involved (not that I would ever vote against Rosario Dawson).
There’s also a Top 50 sexy sci-fi costume list. Apparently I now need to watch AI.
A damned cool list. Check it out and argue amongst yourselves.
Another great geography post. This one tackles how population dispersion – or the lack of it – may be a more realistic look at how we view some nations.
I love maps. No one knows how to read the things anymore but my dad taught me and I plan on teaching Gabriel.
Here is a quick primer on borders and how they are created. Hopefully more stuff like this gets published so I can build up a nice collection of knowledge I can share with everyone.
This sucks.
Reading Rainbow is getting cancelled. We have a country addicted to TV and internet, watching reality bullcrap or chatting online in text-speak with little ability to think or write coherently, and the powers that be at PBS – using Bush Administration “logic” no less – decides to cancel the show.
Granted, I was a bit old of a kid already when the show came on the scene, but that didn’t mean it wasn’t interesting, useful, and – more importantly – fun to it’s target audience.
And now it’s gone. I can’t even share it with my kid in a few years.
Thanks for nothing.
I remember linking a few map links and figured now was the time to lay down a post about them.
First off, from Wired, American Vice: Mapping the 7 Deadly Sins. What is most interesting to me in this is how the “Bible Belt” is chock full of Envy, Wrath, Lust, and Pride.
Wrath: Number of violent crimes (murder, assault, and rape) per capita.
Here is a writeup in the Catholic Globe, plus more maps reprinted in the Las Vegas Sun, including Nevada state breakdowns.
Worried about climate change? If you are a citizen of the Plains/MidWest you’d better be. Not only are Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa in the crosshairs of major change, they are also represented by Republican global warming deniers that won’t be doing a damn thing to help out the Americans that will be hardest hit.
At the same time, resistance to climate change legislation by Republicans is costing their supporters jobs. Don’t believe me? Check out the following map:
Meanwhile, politically, a map that gives hope that we may eventually silence the Talibangelicals and Rethugs and at least get the GOP back to “just” racists and trickle-down theory idiots again. I mean, if THIS is what the Angry White Right for Jebus has to offer, the Republicans will find another way. Won’t they?
I haven’t read the book yet, but I’m looking forward to it.
I have, however, heard this Fresh Air interview, as well as an interview with The Word and the subject seems done with much open-mindedness and real perspective.
In addition, read “5 Myths About Health Care Around the World” by the same author in the The Washington Post.
Talking Points Memo has found some videos of Kennedy is his own words. First of, his Sitka Speech after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Also, some of his work on the floor of the Senate in 2007 during the minimum rate increase debate:
Just in case you were still curious, yet another tenant of “Intelligent Design” has been utterly refuted by using…actual science.
Whodathunkit?
I’m totally gonna find some way to visit the Genghis Khan tourist trap at some point in my life.