The Smug Baldy Speaks

I posted a while ago about some of the shenanigans involving the expanding role of radical Islam within the Texas State Board of Education (here and here). It turns out that, while the good people of Texas were sleeping, self-appointed imams have inserted a curriculum requirement to provide an elective course to teach about the [...]

Wired and a couple other sites have picked up on insurance.com’s list of the 10 most dangerous foods to eat while driving. 1. Coffee. It’s hot. It can spill. That’s bad. That said, we’re guilty of this. So are you. Admit it. 2. Hot soup. It’s hot. It can spill. That’s bad. 3. Tacos. Very [...]

This appeared in our local paper this morning: This image from a surveillance video at an adult video store on Airport Boulevard shows a burglar holding an inflatable sex doll after he broke into the business. Let me count the ways this wingnut fails: First – he’s on video, so he will likely be caught, [...]

The other day I was thinking how awesome it would be if everything revolved around me. Seriously, if I were the center of the universe, then all problems – worldly and otherworldly – would take a back seat to my own. When I moved, I would move the universe. When I shake, I would shake [...]

The Guardian reported the interesting story of self-proclaimed psychic, Patricia Putt, and her attempt to take home 1 million dollars from the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF). While many “psychics” have tried to take home the top prize, which would be a scientific stamp of approval to their claims of esp or other super powers, [...]

Back during the 2008 election, these t-shirts came out, and lots of people were put in a weird spot. After all, it’s generally inappropriate to make fun of unwed pregnant teens, and in political campaigns a candidate’s children are usually off limits. But time passed, and the strange set of social contradictions that surrounded Sarah [...]

The final presidential “debate” is past, and both Barak Obama and John McCain are taking their largely negative campaigns into the home stretch. Interestingly, lots of people are critical of negative campaigning, despite the fact that it tends to work. One of the things I find even more interesting is that while both campaigns are [...]

So said late Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, reminding us that public policy created openly, in the light of day, tended to be better than policy created behind closed doors. We’ve seen disaster after disaster brought on by the Bush administration and it’s penchant for deception, half-truths, and closed-door antics. But now, as the winds [...]

I saw this over at SEB, where the title was simply: It’s funny because it’s sooo true: Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Disastrous Presidency Thanks to Les

President Bush takes some direct questions after his announcement of a $50 Billion supplemental to battle zombies. Bush vs. Zombies isn’t just a Homeland Security priority, I think it’s an instant classic: “How about their overall creepiness?” HT To Matt