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Messing With Reality In Real Time

June 23, 2011

Katrina’s Secrets. It’s a new book by Ray Nagin, the ex-former-gone-but-comes-back-like-exzcema mayor of New Orleans. Self-published. Mmmm hmmm. Barely ridiculed on The Daily Show. The title reminiscent of a discount lingerie store where, as I said on the twubes, there is always a “50% off sale on purple-green-gold thongs, misspelled tourist tees & adult diapers [...]

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Official VatulBlog Response To WeinerGate

June 6, 2011

Because my opinion matters somehow. Well, it did to the LA Times blog, where I am quoted only three tweets down from Steve Martin Yes That Steve Martin. Here it is: Get over it, you frustrated, misprioritizing tensionball of a nation just waiting to burst. I really don’t care if former South Carolina governor Mark [...]

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Stuff Of Interest Today

May 6, 2011

Neil Gaiman is a renowned British author. He is also an American creator, who writes great books, sells them, makes money, and most importantly, knows exactly what his time is worth. So, clutching our political aprons over Gaiman’s $45,000 fee to address a group of people at a Minnesota public library, while saying “Tally ho, [...]

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Of Interest On January 26th, 2011

January 26, 2011

Scientific American | Obama spotlights science in his State of the Union address For innovation, Obama noted how, when Sputnik was launched in 1957, the U.S. did not have the science to beat the Soviet Union to the moon. The space race triggered a series of innovations that created new industries and millions of new [...]

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But If Obama Had Made Jobs We Could Employ People To Install Sidewalks

January 20, 2011

Athenae points us to today’s searing death ray of political brilliance: Michelle Obama’s ‘Get Moving’ Program Linked to Pedestrian Deaths. Ignore my jaw on this keyboard and keep reading. The Governors Highway Safety Association says pedestrian deaths increased in the first half of 2010 and the First Lady’s program to get Americans to be more [...]

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Arizona Shootings

January 10, 2011

Fight, Gabby, fight hard. Lots of energy coming your way, dear lady. Not much to add, other than: 1) As a geologist, let me assure you I’ve never had to “take a stand” or “reload” when using a theodolite. 2) I would never have even thought of Sarah Palin in relation to this shooting had [...]

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Dumb As A Box Of Rocks

December 3, 2010

“A is for Arsenic someone thought fun To include on the icing on top of a bun.” – “ABC” by The Tiger Lilies & Kronos Quartet When an undergraduate and folks asked me why I went into geology, I’d reply, “Because you can talk to rocks and they don’t talk back.” Unlike with humans, entities [...]

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And … Scene!

November 4, 2010

Live Science | Republican Fiscal Plan Could Slash Science Budgets … Those agencies include the National Science Foundation, which funds about 20 percent of all federally supported basic research in America, and which would lose 18.8 percent of its budget, or $1 billion. The Department of Energy‘s Office of Science would be set back $835 [...]

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The Plan

November 3, 2010

Nothing is going to significantly change in America in the next two years, ok? I’m a football fan, remember? The gridiron gridlock. I can already feel it. This is why I don’t care what happened last night as long as funding cuts to education are not carried out and science classrooms remain sacrosanct and supported [...]

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Rally To Just Kinda Be Ourselves For One Day, Part II

November 2, 2010

The costumes. This is why you have to go vote today. So I stop inflicting these nerdy, quadruple-entendre getups on you. The sad part is D’s costume didn’t take all that much effort and HE got high fives and “Duuuuude” all day long, while people came up to me and said, “What are you?” (or [...]

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