Author: mike

Scientific American reports on a recent European study indicating that while the EU is still behind the US in terms of basic science metrics, the EU’s growth rate has risen while the US’s rate...

It’s always been a bit awkward that most of the funding for Al Qeada came from Saudi sources, most of the 9/11 kamakazi hijackers were Saudis, and thatthe country refused to let the incredibly...

Dudley got to snog Bo Derek. Milton got to snog many Zeigfield Follies. He was also the wonderfully henpecked Russell in Mad Mad Mad Mad World. On the whole I’d rather have been Milton...

Angela says this blog is like mine, only skewed the other way. I disagree… I haven’t seen any evidence yet that he has stories like this special doozy. Oh yeah, that last link, it’s...

So the $25m reward for Bin Laden didn’t work so now the Pentagon is offering more familiar rewards: flocks of sheep and roads that don’t turn to mud when it rains.

That Israeli wiretapping spy story is heating up again. Details here, or here, or here. And this is the leaked DEA report about attempted subversion. Earlier here.

Ah, more Nixon tapes. What a charming man he was not.

This is cool. A little utility that generates random NYT logins, so you can read their stuff without registering.

So instead of the image of hordes of bloodthirsty Muslim jihad warriors that CNN et all wanted to push a few weeks ago, it now turns out that the figures as reported were seriously...

So thanks to this article, I now know that the first ever US legal case concerning transsexualism was Anonymous v Weiner.