Quick Hitts

Those of us who are fond of reality make the mistake of using logic and reason to deal with religious nutters in an attempt to show them their conclusions are flawed.  (We use the term “flawed” because it’s impolite to use the more accurate term: “fucking stupid.”)  We can be persuaded by logic and reason, [...]

Hat Tip: Hayden Black of the very funny Goodnight Burbank.

Bobby McFarrin demonstrates that the pentatonic scale is a universal constant.

Here’s a commercial you’ll never see on American TV.

This video is getting sent all over the place.  It’s already more popular than Sex With Ducks.

This guy isn’t a one hit wonder; he’s done quite a few very funny, well done parodies.
You won’t fully appreciate the next one unless you’ve heard the original.  Not only is Carrie Underwood’s “Jesus Take The Wheel”  filled with [...]

Minnesota is really going overboard with their smoking restrictions.

H/T to the always entertaining Fail Blog.

It’s difficult for the human brain to comprehend the extreme distances in astronomy.  Can you really envision a light year?  How about the difference between a hundred light years and fifty parsecs?
This video, by George Hrab, should help clarify things, and make it easier for you to understand astronomical distances.

Sometimes it takes forever for someone to get the joke.
Update: The site is down.  You can find the same thing here.

“Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel”  – Mark Twain (maybe)
With the advent of the internet we all have barrels full of bits that are nearly free.  Any person annoyed with any company can easily air their grievances to thousands of people.  This should inspire companies to do whatever they [...]

Math Tests Through the Decades, Copied verbatim from Chicken Hammer:

1950s — A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price. What is his profit ?

1960s — A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price, or [...]

What does a rabbit or an egg have to do with Jesus?  I’d learned that they were hangovers from pagan fertility rites that were incorporated into Christianity to help make it easier for those filthy heathens to convert.  But recently I discovered the real story behind these Easter icons.

Happy Easter!

Up until a few minutes ago my favorite headline of all time was the NY Posts “Headless Body In Topless Bar.”  But while catching up on blog posts in The Agitator, one of the comments on this post pointed out the best headline ever. 

These musicians have found the cure for drummers who can’t keep time.  Rather than replace them with a soulless drum machine, they get their rhythm from something with more personality: an old tractor, set to idle. 
Strangely enough, once the novelty wears off, it actually sounds good.  I’d listen to this as a stand alone [...]

I stopped by Hulu for another dose of Babylon 5, and found this on their front page:
I never knew MLK once sported a huge, fluffy afro.  But it works for him.

Action on Smoking and Health is one the most vile anti-smoker organization out there.  They sell kits to help nannies get smokers kicked out of their homes and make custody battles more contentious. They do this with a site almost as ugly as their black, shriveled souls.
Last week they made the rookie [...]

This just in from Defective Yeti:
“The Federal Reserve today cut a key interest rate to zero, allowing borrowers to get money for nothing. In a related move, the Fed also set the short-term lending rate of chicks to free.”
Get the rest of the story here.

This article, How to Commit Armed Robbery in Six Easy Steps, is only moderately amusing.  Now, if someone were stupid enough to take it seriously, that would be funny. 
You can tell from their pictures that these three women are not exactly rocket surgeons.  They followed the article’s advice: “On a side note, you [...]

There’s an e-mail floating around warning people to vote on the correct day. Since a huge turnout is expected, it says, Republican’s should vote on Tuesday and Democrats and Independents should vote on Wednesday.
I’m guessing there are fuming lefties who see this as part of a vast conspiracy to screw people out of their [...]

Never underestimate the creativity of Americans.  Give us a problem and one of us will come up with a creative solution.  Big problems, little problems, we’ll take on all of them. We can even find solutions to problems that might seem intractable, like naked squirrels.

I like to buy from sites that feature lots of customer reviews.  It’s one of the reasons I buy most of my electronic stuff from NewEgg.  (The other reasons: their selection is great, their pricing is excellent and their shipping is amazing.  Hint: pick the very cheapest shipping, and it still usually arrives the next [...]