John McCain wants to have a contest that will award $300 million to the person/company that develops a better car battery. Yes, it would be great thing if someone would develop a better battery, but it seems to me that spending massive amounts of money in a contest is a…
Garrison Keillor often writes with a sharp pen. Here's what he recently wrote (at Salon.com) about McCain's attempts to brand Obama an elitist: And it's an amazing country where an Arizona multimillionaire can attack a Chicago South Sider as an elitist and hope to make it stick. The Chicagoan was…
Check out this WaPo story: The bundle of $2,300 and $4,600 checks that poured into Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign on March 12 came from an unlikely group of California donors: a mechanic from D&D Auto Repair in Whittier, the manager of Rite Aid Pharmacy No. 5727, the 30-something owners…
Batteries (at least some batteries) are made out of other batteries. [Before going any further, beware - this is a spoof video I fell for. Thanks to the commentors below.] 6 Volt Battery Hack! You'll Be Amazed! - video powered by Metacafe
I stumbled onto this unusual and visually disturbing site. Yes, I gawked. But it made me wonder what the God-is-omnipotent-and-omniscient crowd think of these sorts of occurrences. Are they evidence of God's majesty and ability to intelligently design his creatures? Or do they lead believers to think that human are…