Gratuitous Video Feed
From the marvelous Riverdance, here are Maria Pages and Michael Flatley in the lovely “Fire Dance.” It’s, well, fiery.
Yes, Comrade Political Officer
The president having lost the tame poodle that was the 109th congress, and facing opposition from the Democratic-led 110th, he has used an Executive Order to create a barrier between legislators and the agencies they regulate (and between policy and the career civil servants who execute it):
….Mr. Bush said that each agency must have a [...]
New Branch on the Family Tree
The discovery on Flores Island of prehistoric human skeletons—the so-called hobbits—ignited the usual raging anthropological debates. Here’s more support for the notion that the remains represented a new hominid species, and not stunted specimens of modern Homo sapiens, with whom they were contemporaneous:
In the latest salvo in a heated scientific shootout, an [...]
Gratuitous Video Feed
Outkast’s “Hey Ya” set to A Charlie Brown Christmas footage. Or vice-versa. Shake it, shake it like Lucy Van Pelt. A joyous mashup!
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“I grant him bloody,
Luxurious, avaricious, false, deceitful,
Sudden, malicious, smacking of every sin
That has a name.” –Macbeth, 4.3.57-60
