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Neo-Republicans are the angry CAT. The Obama Administration must clean the CAT BOX. The SHIT is the result of eight years of mismanagement and corruption and plain old greed. Now the CAT demonizes the scooper and bullies the cleaning methods … this makes no sense. It stinks! Neo-Republicans ar...

Thrilla in vanilla: Michael Jackson's press conference announcing some London shows he'll soon cancel was not exactly a thriller. See the video Scanner Emily shared yesterday. Dr. Sanjay Gupta has decided to turn down a job in the Obama Administration. Hero of the day: the nurse who bought a...

The "American Idol" "tragedy off"... and other things. I can barely force myself to watch AI anymore, but reading descriptions of the show is great fun. Yes, I know, maybe you had fun reading my descriptions of the show in year's past, but the problem there is that I have to watch it, and my current...

Premier Colin Barnett made a speech about funding cuts yesterday at a “business luncheon”. The full transcript is here; it was also reported in the Australian. Barnett was speaking at the CEDA-hosted 2009 “Economic and Political Overview”, billed as “Australia’s p...

    Anastasia Giddens-Merritt and lab partner Kevin Peña watched the robot they had built and programmed try to hurl a ball over a wall.     The throw, however, was a bit short.     "The robot's arm went all the way down and crashed into t...

Lip reading is a critical means of communication for many deaf people, but it has a drawback: Certain consonants (for example, p and b) can be nearly impossible to distinguish by sight alone. Tactile devices, which translate sound waves into vibrations that can be felt by the skin, can help overcome...

Growing hate groups blame Obama, economy Report: the number of hate groups grew by 54 percent since 2000 Obama’s election win fueled some to join hate groups, study found The FBI’s uniform crime report found 7,624 hate crime incidents in 2007 Obama is a “visual aid” that help...

I just had a very brief, but somewhat frightening, thought experiment. I was in the bathroom, reading a story from Wil Wheaton in a book B has, and it occurred to me that I’ve never even tried to wipe my ass with my left hand. Could I do it if I needed to? What if [...]...

My friend Katheryn at RyHigh has an interesting blog post, Hands up, where she talks about Disabled kids show host draws criticism, praise - CNN.com. Here’s a snippet from the CNN post A children’s show host who was born with one hand is facing criticism from parents over her disability....