The latest local reports say 12 people died and at least 54 were injured when a lone gunman opened fire in a crowded Aurora, Colorado, theater last night. The sellout crowd was attending the premier of the third Batman movie, “The Dark Knight Rises.” This was the news that greeted me when I got up … Continue reading 12 dead, 54 injured in Colorado theater shooting
As heated and highly partisan as the presidential campaign is, it’s difficult to imagine someone still being on the fence about which candidate to support. It’s not like there are two moderates circling each other somewhere in the muddled middle ground. Mitt Romney and the Republicans are at opposite ends of the spectrum from Barack … Continue reading More liberal than Obama, yet as conservative as Romney
Surprise. Women’s bras are not a “modern” contraption from the late 1800s. Archeologists from the University of Innsbruck have discovered, in an Austrian castle, four linen bras that date back to the Middle Ages. Previously it was thought corsets preceded bras in the evolution of women’s clothing, and that it was not until about a … Continue reading Fashion discovery: Bras date back to Middle Ages
The cheery economic news just keeps on coming. Now there’s a report that for the first time in recent history, Canadians are richer than Americans — to the tune of $40,000 per household. Furthermore, the Canadian unemployment rate is lower than ours, 7.2 percent vs. our 8.2 percent. Their currency is virtually equivalent to ours … Continue reading O Canada
Rush Limbaugh has a great new conspiracy theory. The villain in the new Batman movie, “The Dark Knight Rises,” is named Bane, and was first introduced in Batman comics in 1993. But no, says Limbaugh, it’s obviously a conspiracy against Mitt Romney, with his now-controversial private equity firm, Bain Capital. Kind of like the conspiracy … Continue reading The Bane Conspiracy
NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day today is particularly interesting — a hole in the surface of Mars. We’ve seen craters, plains, the tracings of flowing water, etc. But this hole appears to be an opening into a subsurface cavern of some kind, much like an earthly sinkhole over an old mineshaft. The hole was … Continue reading Curiosity and a Martian sinkhole
