La savoire-faire du Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa:



(There's a way to ogle, and then there's . . . well, anyway, as witness. Gad, Obama looks as if he's about to climb right in there with her!)

http://www.gnn.com/article/daredevil-biker-backflips-over-london/569097?icid=main|htmlws-main|dl4|link7|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gnn.com%2Farticle%2Fdaredevil-biker-backflips-over-london%2F569097

But his head didn't turn into a burning skull! ;-(

We laugh because it's so true it hurts.

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/07/13/saudia.arabia.genie.suit/index.html

Wonder if Disney will do a movie about this?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/14/science/space/14hoax.html?_r=1

The tin-beanie people strike again. Or keep striking. Or something. -- Is it discrimination if you just can't stand tin-beanie people?

Breaking News - Ledger-Enquirer.com

http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/breaking_news/story/776335.html

This one isn't as easy to sort out, but I'll say this: If your superiors say you're deployed, you're deployed until further notice. (And Phil Plait, who is not a politician nor an historian nor anything else relevant to this case, should be ashamed of himself for making pronouncements about it.)

Just came inside from the porch. There is a thick brown-grey-red haze over the Cascades due east of where I live, the sort of haze that only comes from wildfire smoke. There must be the hell of a fire back up there. I'd better check www.seattletimes.com to see if they have something on it.

Element 2323 has finally been discovered. Named "frigidinfernium," it's the major constituent of snowballs in hell, and has a half-life of about 0.0000000000000000000000023 seconds -- or even less, in areas such as Phoenix, AZ and Death Valley, California.