Thursday, June 16, 2011
Dorothy: “How can you talk if you haven’t got a brain?”
The Scarecrow: “I wouldn’t know. But then, some people without brains do an awful lot of talking.”
— The Wizard of OzMGM, 1939
Combing the Internet for inane things Michele Bachmann has said – and there is certainly no dearth of them – I came across what I believe may be the most truthful statement ever to issue forth from her lips:
“I am not a scientist, not trained to be a scientist. I’m not a deep thinker on all of this. I wish I was. I wish I was more knowledgeable, but I’m not a scientist.”
Bachmann – who has already demonstrated her lack of …
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Thursday, May 19, 2011
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
— Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy
“We are living in a time of history like no other.” So begins a YouTube video posted back in 2009 by Gunther Von Harringa, Sr., one of Harold Camping’s deluded disciples babbling that the second coming is going to take place this Saturday. That opening sentence is about the only kernel of truth to be found in …
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Friday, May 13, 2011
Okay, all of this “end of the world” nonsense has officially stopped being a joke. I came across this news report aired by KTLA television in Los Angeles a couple of months ago.
A woman slit her daughters’ throats before slitting her own early Friday evening, claiming that "the Tribulation" was going to occur and she wanted to prevent them from suffering through it, officials said.
Lyn Benedetto, 47, reportedly told her daughters to lie on a bed and proceeded to take a knife to their throats.
The suspect then took the knife to her own throat before driving the victims to an unoccupied friend’s house to die.
“The Tribulation” is an old christian superstition that after …
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