I’m geeky enough to read any news related to a Da Vinci design coming to live. The cool part about this one is that the darn thing works!
Poll: Miss. Republicans think inter-racial marriage should be illegal
Yeah, I know, this shouldn’t be that big of a surprise. The South is racist, Mississippi even more so.
And Republicans? Yeah, they’re cornering the market on bigots lately, even after Hillary Clinton’s PUMAs in the mix.
But 46 percent of those angry bigots openly stating they want to make my marriage and other “race mixing” couples illegal? That’s some bold honesty in this day and age.
Why are bananas radioactive?
Bananas are actually radioactive. I remember learning this is school but it’s a fun article to read in these days where we in the US are more scared of radioactivity than the Japanese who a) HAVE been nuke bombed, and b) HAVE a nuke plant in trouble.
Are they freaking out? Well, maybe a little, but since their culture runs on stoic adult behavior and science instead of reality show hysterics and “intelligent design” they actually have a handle on things.
Incidentally, don’t tell Republicans about this thing about bananas. Between their end times hysteria and their hatred of all things brown people grow (and eat, and make, and reproduce) they’ll ban the fruit in mere moments.
Tabasco island: Some like it Avery hot | The Economist
A nice overview of McIlhenny Co, the folks who bring us Tabasco sauce.
I knew most of this story from a tour I took there during a server build in Louisiana a few years back but nice to see their operation getting some well-deserved press.
How to Start Your Own Country: A Primer | Mother Jones
Ever wanted to get away from it all, throw up a border and keep the riff-raff out? Yeah, me too. Here are some folks who have actually done it.
The Workshop of Model Maker Adam Savage
If I were ever to have the time and money to build a proper workshop, it would look something like this.
Be warned. It now lives behind a paywall.
Other Countries Pay Their Teachers More. And We Want To Start Paying Ours Less? | The New Republic
Compared to the civilized world – which we are moving away from in alarming ways – we don’t pay our teaches enough. Nor do we give them the proper respect. Nor do we try to recruit the best people for the job.
And now we’ve got Republicans trying to punish those who do the job despite the low level of respect for the work they do? I may be unemployed but I’m kind of glad I got out of the field.
BBC News – What’s inside a Japanese quake grab bag?
Here is what the Japanese consider part of a proper disaster pack.
I’m not judging. I’m taking notes for when I build mine for next year. You know, when all the psycho sadistic “religious” types start blowing stuff up because they think it’s the end of the world.
Death By a Single GOP Cut? | Mother Jones
Republicans are so convinced that spending our tax dollars on anything but bombs to drop on brown people and bonuses for rich people is socialist evil that they are now planning to cut funding for vaccinations.
That’s right, the GOP is going to succeed where Jenny McCarthy did not quite persevere. Our children are gonna catch whooping cough and die. But not before spreading the disease to anyone outside of a gated community.
Cops, firefighters turn on GOP in labor fight
Some police and firefighter unions are slowly realizing that Republicans are not their friends.
Gee, really? Welcome to the party you idiots. Better late than never I guess.