This afternoon, eleven months to the day after I got my first iPhone, I broke it: D’OH!!! #PANIC!!! I was listening to a tornado coverage on an Oklahoma radio station, KRMG, via TuneIn Radio, when my earbuds’ cord got caught on something and, when I made a sudden movement, the iPhone went flying out of my hand and landed 2… Read more »
Now that the Generic Republican is officially running, I’m thinking he needs a slogan that truly reflects his exciting identity. Here are some of the ideas I’ve come up with: • Pawlenty 2012: Adequate for America • Pawlenty 2012: Less Frightening Than The Various Alternatives • Pawlenty 2012: We Are The Ones We Have Been Vaguely Waiting For, Sort Of… Read more »
Harold Camping, the nutjob blasphemer fundamentalist evangelical preacher and radio host whose prediction of a May 21 Rapture launched a thousand snarky tweets, isn’t backing down in the face of the…uh…evident lack of a Rapture over the weekend. Instead, he’s doubling down! Camping says the world will still end on October 21, as he’s predicted all along. Originally, he said… Read more »
While we were all joking about the Rapture, a real-life calamity of apocalyptic proportions (on a local scale, anyway) struck Joplin, Missouri, which was devastated yesterday by a huge, powerful tornado that is already being blamed for 89 deaths. The photos of the utter destruction are stunning, reminiscent of last month’s Alabama tornadoes. It seems almost certain that the ultimate… Read more »
BREAKING: Sources say #Rapture cancelled after an air-traffic controller in Heaven fell asleep on the job.Sun May 22 00:04:00 via EchofonBrendan Loybrendanloy Where were you on the day the world didn’t end? The above picture was taken out my window at precisely 6:00 PM Saturday, when the Rapture was scheduled to hit the Mountain Time Zone, airlifting the Saved to… Read more »
If you haven’t heard, the Rapture is coming on Saturday. Reminder: TSA will be conducting random pre-#Rapture “enhanced pat downs” to ensure air travelers’ safety during flights to Heaven tomorrow.Fri May 20 15:04:48 via webBrendan Loybrendanloy Specifically, the Rapture is coming at 6:00 PM local time on Saturday. (Apparently, God respects time zones!) So it’ll start in Kiribati and sweep… Read more »
The biggest reason to either scrap or overhaul the BCS is to prevent the nearly annual ritual (only exceptions in the last decade: 2002 and 2005) of some team having a very legitimate claim that it should have had a title shot. But the second-biggest reason is to stop incentivizing scheduling fiascos like this. ESPN has ranked the “toughest” non-conference… Read more »
Much ink is being spilled today over Stephen Hawking’s comment in an interview with The Guardian that “I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.” So… is he right? As a fairly… Read more »
Gloria Borger quotes an unnamed “irritated ally” of Newt Gingrich as saying: “He uses inflammatory language no matter what he is talking about. Why can’t he express a thought in a calm, rational way?” Heh. P.S. And now… Rick Perry for President? Nate Silver thinks he might be the favorite if he were to run.
Yesterday, the federal government hit the debt limit, and the Treasury Department started instituting “extraordinary measures” — which waste taxpayers’ money — to buy a few more months for Congress to dither, grandstand and demagogue, instead of authorizing the issuance of debt that is mathematically necessary in order to spend the money that Congress has already ordered the Treasury Department… Read more »