Author: mike

I’ve written before about how the “official” US unemployment rate is massaged to create an artificially low level, especially when compared with posted EU figures. Here’s the latest (March 2004) figures for the US:...

Here’s a roundup of press reaction to the frustrated voters in Spain finally getting a chance to rebuke their former Government’s unpopular and unqualified support for last year’s US invasion of Iraq. If I...

It’s tough to keep up with trends in designer entheogens and hallucinogens. I blame pacman. Apparently, the latest trend is for 2C-I, 2-CT-7, 4-HO-DiPT, and 5-Meo-DMT, strong-as-fuck psychedelics too new to have been been...

I have been studying like the clappers for weeks for the GRE and finally got it done today – not as good as the practice tests though, 690/690. I was thinking, if I could...

This has been on a few sites, but here is one local woman’s photographic account of what the radioactive dead zona around Chernobyl looks like today. SO far, over 100,000 dead and rising. Forecasts...

I’ve discovered a new diversion even more trivially simple and rewarding than baiting geeks – baiting Christians…

As a favor to utility and coal industries, America’s largest mercury dischargers, the EPA sat for nine months on a report exposing the catastrophic impact on children’s health of mercury, finally releasing it in...

Taste like crab, talk like people… Millions of giant Pacific crabs, whose ancestors were brought to Europe by Joseph Stalin in the 1930s, are marching south along Norway’s coast, devouring everything in their path....

I still keep coming back to this simple problem. If a prion disease like CWD (in deer) can spread as if borne by mobile ve ctors or proximity-based contagion, then how can the prion-based...

So prompted by the fuss over Mel Gibson’s gruesome snuff movie (which itself features the usual anachronistically inaccurate White Jesus, and this during Black History Month!), I checked out some stills on IMDB. All...