Miscellaneous

Remind me of this, if they ever decide to name a battleship after me: San Francisco wants to turn a portion of the battleship Iowa into museum that tells the story of minorities in the military, including lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender troops. Link [http://www.qctimes.net/articles/2006/

GK Chesterton once said that some things can't be reasoned with. Instead, you simply have to stomp on them with your heel. I say a similar thing: You can't reason about some things. You just have to vomit on them. From Britain: > Transsexuals who have

You need any more proof that people lie in polls, and they're often meaningless? > What appears to be a first leading up to Super Bowl XL is that the most popular snacks millions will munch in front of television are now vegetables. > The news came from

A nice little article about the forgery of evolutionary Piltdown Man, the human stem cell forgery of Hwang Woo-suk, and why we can continue to expect scientific forgery in the coming century [http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=013006A].

I thought this was a joke, but apparently not: > American researchers claim to have discovered that passive smoking affects felines as much as it does human beings, and have expressed the hope that endangering the family pet might shame some addicts, immune to the effect they are having on

"A little old lady used to sail it to church on Sundays": > Unscrupulous dealers have been selling automobiles flooded in Hurricanes Katrina and Rita as far away as California, the state's insurance commissioner said on Thursday. > John Garamendi warned that some dealers and salvage

Don't think about it. Just quit: > Putting a lot of thought and planning into quitting smoking may not be the best route to success, a new study finds. > In fact, British researchers found that those smokers who spontaneously quit were much more likely to not resume

> If you were to dig a hole from where you are standing all the way through the center of the Earth, where would you end up? Click here to find out [http://www.digholes.com/].

I'd have to pass on the festivities: > Alongside food and fire crackers, Chinese are adding a new item to their lunar New Year shopping: Adult diapers. Sales have soared ahead of the holiday as travelers prepare for long trips home aboard trains so crowded that even the

Greenwich Village has always fascinated me. One expert on that bohemian corner of the world speculates that open gayness killed the Village [http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/01/22/RVG4OGLRPE1.DTL]: > In his lament that "the Village" is not what it used