Found it on a list of “top ten viral videos.” Man, I wonder what the other nine were…
Rational Conservatism from the Rocky Mountains
Found it on a list of “top ten viral videos.” Man, I wonder what the other nine were…
San Diego 23, Denver 3. 11 of 28 for 126 yards, zero touchdowns and one interception. Hold on, he just completed a pass for eleven yards. So 12 of 29 for 137 yards. 3:55 left in the game. Yeah, he’s the man alright… Oops. Threw another interception… Definitely climbing up the food chain… Game over, [...]
So, the “City of Gold” scene in the “National Treasure” movie just keeps coming back to me. Along with dozens or hundreds of similar scenes in movies, books, cartoons or comics I’ve seen over the years. Treasure hunters routinely discover mountains of gold, only to have it vanish again. So I wonder, do my readers [...]
This is cool… DESERETNEWS.COM – Israelis etch the smallest Bible ever JERUSALEM — Israeli scientists have inscribed the entire Hebrew text of the Jewish Bible onto a space less than half the size of a grain of sugar. The nanotechnology experts at the Technion institute in Haifa say the book was etched on a surface [...]
Early in the season the NFC East was considered the toughest division in the NFC, if not in all of football. Over the course of the year Washington and Philadelphia went through very difficult times. But now, with one game left in the season, we have Dallas as the top seed in the NFC, the [...]
I’m starting to see more and more stories about how the “sub-prime” mortgage industry collapse is just the tip of the iceberg in the overall world capital markets. The fundamental problem seems to be a negative feedback loop where banks are unwilling to provide credit, even to good customers, because they have been so burned [...]
Here’s an amusing human interest story… DESERETNEWS.COM – Nuptials make Mrs. Christmas When people say “Merry Christmas” to this American Fork woman, they really mean it. That’s because her name is, well, Mary Christmas. About nine months ago, Mary Young, 29, married Brian Christmas, 30, thus becoming Mrs. Mary Christmas. “It’s pretty crazy. It’s definitely [...]
Hat tip to pace on this one. How would you like to purchase a nuclear reactor? Maybe your whole block could get together and purchase one to power all the houses on the block. Sound too good to be true? Well, CNET editor Peter Glaskowsky seems to think it is. A personal nuclear reactor? Not [...]
For several years now I’ve been hearing about the radical idea of completely scrapping the current income tax system and replacing it with an across the board national sales tax of something like 23% on every purchase. I’ve seen it proposed with things like energy costs and food costs being excluded, and I’ve seen it [...]
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