Flares into Darkness

Why the recession is lasting so long . Communicating through touch . Revolution in China? Fairness is hard-wired into the brain. ...

Real lives in North Korea . Quark soup at 4 trillion degrees Celsius. Japan's Mengele experiments . The mathematical formula for ...

Retort Thou art a fool," said my head to my heart, "Indeed, the greatest of fools thou art, To be led a...

The oil export crisis has already arrived. Iran will punch Western powers. China starts to dump . Is the Sahara blooming ? Spray...

Adriano Celentano, an Italian singer and comedian, sings his song Prisencolinensinainciusol. The lyrics are gibberish, but are meant to sou...

Ah, the grand future we were promised...   These pictures of our glorious future, and more that follow after the jump, are from Black and WT...

Life among the Taliban . 20 reasons why the US economy is dying and will not recover . Four crashes , inflation adjusted. Vegetative...

Red is spending, blue is income. Total US debt as percent of GDP. H/T Henry Blodget .

Yeah, I know these things are getting old, but it's the scene that keeps on giving. It's the thousand year rant.

Peak oil? No, but expensive oil , yes. What the Google fiasco tells us about China. Not a single oil company trusts Chavez. Who woulda...

Oooops. I guess that coronation campaign didn't go according to plan. My advice to Martha Coakley is that she just needs to look at t...

Ok, so I've gotten into the habit of reading the news again and finding stuff that I'm moved to share with the world. I'll start...

The blog Mental Floss has a post, A $100,000 Bill? The Story Behind Large-Denomination Currency , that discusses large denomination America...

Two young fellows came up with a clever way of disposing of their old Christmas tree and they dispense some philosophy along the way. Alas,...

[HT: Calafia Beach Pundit ]

That is how I refer to Avatar , James Cameron’s new epic to encourage self-loathing for human beings. Many have commented about the anti mil...

I'm not sure where I picked this up, so I apologize for the intellectual theft, but here's the gist of it: If someone asks you whe...