This is ridiculous. Black Jack, Missouri has a city ordinance that prohibits more than three people from living together in the same house if they are unrelated by blood, marriage or adoption. Wait… did I read that right? I did. WTF??? From Reuters: Olivia Shelltrack and Fondray Loving and their children moved from Minnesota to [click to continue reading...]
This is very cool. Scientists are using x-rays of fossils to piece together full images of what prehistoric organisms looked like and how they developed! Paleontologists have been using acid to dissolve the embryo fossils out of rocks for about a decade, focusing on specimens from the time about 500 million years ago when multicellular [click to continue reading...]

Playing with Google Earth today – “flying” from place to place that I’ve placemarked (home, dog run, where T is right now, work, my folks house, my sis, etc.) – reminded me of A Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan. Rereading it just now, it seemed so on point regarding so many discussions going on [click to continue reading...]
I’m sorry, but I just can’t get enough of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Back in July I read an AP article about teachers being forced to teach creationism in the public schools as an alternative to evolution and I sent my sister an email that said: I’ve decided to start a movement to make public schools teach that the earth is carried through the sky on the back [click to continue reading...]