Archive for October 24th, 2006

Tuesday, October 24th, 2006

Troubadork – Weird Al – Still keepin’ it real after all of these years

Weird Al has been making me chuckle since as long as I can remember.  Sam Anderson has written a good article about Al’s history and influence on Slate.  You can find it here.

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Tuesday, October 24th, 2006

Darfur

“60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley traveled to the Darfur region in Sudan to track down a boy whose village was destroyed by the Janjaweed Arab militia. Millions of people have been displaced.  I have of course heard and read about the crisis in the Sudan, but nothing up until this report prepared me for the [...]

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Tuesday, October 24th, 2006

9/11, The Lunar Landing, and JFK Assassination

What do these three items have in common?  Batshit crazy lunatics who have conspiracy theories to disprove what facts and history supposedly don’t support.  Penn and Teller do an excellent job debunking them all here. Thanks to Glenn for pointing this out.

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