More Losses in 2010 Could Push GOP to Brink of Collapse

It's not that the GOP will disappear from politics as we know it, but certainly, it would take them a decade or more to claw their way back to the top of the electoral heap. When the GOP lost the House in 1954, it took forty years to return to the majority. A third-straight round of losses in 2010 could push the GOP into a long term minority.

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Lazy Nation Fears Obama Will Create Millions Of Jobs

He's out of control.

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Presidential Gatling Gun-Equipped Suburban

Barack Obama's getting a Cadillac-styled new Presidential Limo tomorrow. While nice, we're more interested in the Gatling gun-equipped Suburban that follows Cadillac One. Here's video of the bullet-spraying Chevy in action.

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Thousands of shopping carts stake out the parking lot [pic]

This urban sculpture was made with thousands of standard shopping carts in a Costco parking lot by following the natural curve in a lineup of the carts. What they are protecting, we're not exactly sure, but this might be the equivalent of the crop circle in an urban environment.

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How to move two presidents in six hours

It's a side of Inauguration Day that most people never see: a grueling, precisely timed workday involving scores of staffers that follows six months of careful planning.

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Cost: $2 Million. Revenue: $30

The lowest grossing film of all time, earning just $30 at the box office from exactly six patrons.

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11th hour plan to drill off California coast

The U.S. Interior Department, acting in President Bush's final days in office, proposed on Friday opening up 130 million acres off of California's coast to drilling for oil and natural gas, including areas off Humboldt and Mendocino counties and from San Luis Obispo south to San Diego.

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NASA’s History With Nuclear Dreams

NASA, the ubiquitous name in space exploration hadn’t always intended on always using regular rockets to fling space-shuttles or cargo in space. For a few decades starting at 1960, to the early years in 2000, NASA had its sights set on “poster child” mission where they would use a nuclear-powered space-shuttle.

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CandyWars, a sugar-coated DopeWars, is approved by App Store

After being rejected entry into the App Store, Catamount Software renamed its port of the cult classic DopeWars game to CandyWars (iTunes, $0.99) and it was promptly approved.

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What Happens When You Spray Hot Water At -20 Degrees?

Birdchick lives in Minnesota, where it's wicked cold right now! She shot this video of what happens when you spray hot water at -20 degrees F.

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Indie 103.1 Goes Off the Air to Keep Intregrity

The Famous Los Angeles Radio Station has suddenly stopped broadcasting!

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A Neglected Revenue Source For California - Marijuana

I don't smoke out, at ALL, but let's get smart and make this official already...

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Facebook Kills Whopper Sacrifice. We Can't Have Nice Things

Burger King, through their insanely creative advertising agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky, launches a FB app that encourages users to remove friends. Sacrifice ten of em and you got a free Whopper. 233,906 friends were removed by 82,771 people in less than a week. This is the future of advertising. Or it could have been, if Facebook hadn’t shut it..

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The most disgusting cheese ever made - Casu marzu

Yum!

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5 Classic Cartoons They Don't Want You To See | Cracked.com

funny

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Baby Barn Owls!

So cute and cuddly!!

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Crows Are Getting Smarter

The invasion is imminent...

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Was this really necessary? [WIKIPEDIA]

I hope Timothy Mark Hope-Johnstone isn't planning to become famous anytime within, say, the next 300 years, if he lives that long.

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One Religion that’s Actually Embracing Science: Buddhism

More than 30 Tibetan monks, plus a handful of nuns, will be collaborating with a team from San Francisco's Exploratorium to build exotic machines to create patterns from sunlight using cardboard, dowels, reflective sheets of mylar and electronic components. They will return to their monasteries and start spreading the joys of scientific exploration

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Eating bambi's dad makes bambi a runt.

Evolutionary biology suggests that man's impact on species he hunts may cause them to evolve physically smaller forms.

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Disney Rejection Letter From 1938 [PIC]

Women do not do any of the creative work in connection with preparing the cartoons for the screen.

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How to hallucinate using ping-pong balls and a radio

Do you ever want to change the way you see the world? Wouldn't it be fun to hallucinate on your lunch break? Although we typically associate such phenomena with powerful drugs like LSD or mescaline, it's easy to fling open the doors of perception without them: All it takes is a basic understanding of how the mind works.

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15 Reasons Mr. Rogers Was the Best Neighbor Ever

Many of us grew up with Mr. Rogers. You might suspect that he was some kind of fraud ala Smoochy. You, my friend, would be wrong.

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140 Year Old Lobster To Be Set Free

A LOBSTER thought to be about 140 years old will be returned to the ocean after briefly becoming the mascot for a New York City restaurant, an animal rights group said overnight.

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My Genome, My Self

In the coming era of consumer genetics, your DNA will have much to tell you about the biological bases of your health, your physique and even your personality. But will this knowledge really amount to self-knowledge?

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White House: Increase in terror attacks since 9/11 a success

On Friday I went back to the White House to throw one more metaphorical shoe at the president. Luckily, Deputy Press Secretary Scott Stanzel was sitting in for Dana Perino. I asked why the White House thought the war on terror was a success -- when statistics clearly show an increase in attacks since the US invasion of Iraq.

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Why'd Western Docs Promote Tobacco When Nazis Fought Cancer?

Pop quizzes are frequent for students in Robert Proctor’s history of science classes. “How old is the earth?” “How many millions in a billion?” “Are you convinced that humans share a common ancestry with apes?”

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Is a 'Katrina-Like' Space Storm Brewing?

U.S. scientists worry we aren't ready for a solar space storm that could knock out our electricity, our cell phones, even our water supply.

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NASA Renegades Pitch Obama Team New Post-Shuttle Plan

A group of engineers today proposed a plan called Jupiter Direct to Obama advisors. The proposal would replace NASA's current plans for the Ares rocket. The engineers claim that the new plan would get astronauts to the ISS in less time, and for less money.

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One can spend a long time in jail without being charged

It happened to H. Beatty Chadwick who has been behind bars for nearly 14 years without being charged. Businessman Manuel Osete spent nearly three years in an Arizona jail without ever receiving a criminal charge. And investment manager Martin Armstrong faced a similar situation when he was held for more than six years in a Manhattan jail.

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Palin: Couric, Fey profited by 'exploiting' me

Conservative documentary filmmaker John Ziegler is determined to prove that Barack Obama won the 2008 election because of media bias, and that "the media assassination of [Sarah Palin], her character and family, was one of the greatest public injustices of our time.” Ziegler has now released clips of a January 5 interview with Palin.

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