Wow. An 18 pound lobster was delivered to Coney Island for use as an exhibition piece after the lucky guy escaped death by boiling and garlic butter because no pot could be found within which to cook him. Now he will be a part of Coney Island’s menagerie, which is a somewhat more desirable fate […]
Read MoreYoshihiko Noda will be the 6th Prime Minister of Japan elected in the past five years. He comes as Naoto Kan’s replacement, fulfilling Kan’s promise to step down as soon as the tsunami and its attendant crises had been sufficiently allayed. Like Kan, Yoshihiko Noda is from the Democratic Party of Japan, the first political […]
Read MoreIMF Chief Christine LaGarde, replacement for Dominique Strauss Kahn (who seemed to be busier chasing tail than focusing on his job), has advocated for a capital injection into European banks and states that ‘decoupling’ EU states from the monetary union is a myth. She has argued for capital injections into European banks, solutions to the […]
Read MoreOh this guy probably thought he was so cute when he began advocating redistribution of GPA averages from higher grade earners to lower grade earners in order to test leftist students’ dedication to wealth redistribution. He was shocked to learn that, even though students earned their grades, they were apparently loathe to redistribute grade points […]
Read MoreAndrew Erickson, a professor at Providence’s Naval War College and a specialist in the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, has a new book coming out entitled Chinese Aerospace Power: Evolving Maritime Roles in which he explores and explicates the Chinese PLA’s goals, particularly with regard to its navy, and how this will effect Sino-US relations in the future. […]
Read MoreAs discussed in previous blog posts, the problem with the Euro and the current debt crises wracking EU states like Greece and Spain stems largely from the EU member-states unrestrained ability to borrow money in the form of sovereign debt. While the Euro binds the EU together in monetary union, each member state is still […]
Read MoreOh, would be anarchists and revolutionaries, aka the children who caused the London riots and the other riots which gripped England for a while, are now locked away in jail and are finding life there to be quite difficult. Of course, prisons around the world have their own justice system, and English juvenile detention facilities […]
Read MoreFound near a pulsar star PSR J1719-1438, a planet comprised entirely of carbon about the size of our sun. In other words, there is a gigantic diamond floating around a small star in space. I’ll bet it is beautiful to behold. Having arisen from the ashes of a supernova in a binary star system, the pulsar […]
Read MoreOkonomiyaki is an art form in the cities of Osaka and Hiroshima, with the two cities each labeling it their ‘meibutsu’ or regional culinary speciality. This article will focus on the Osaka variation of this awesome recipe. Okonomiyaki is considered junk food and is not on the same level as more complicated Japanese cuisine but […]
Read MoreHonestly this is kind of beyond the pale, not for Pat Robertson, but for any sort of rational thinking. Do these idiots even consider what they are saying when they claim that God, in his FURY, decided to crack the Washington Monument during the recent DC Earth-shake? This is the same God who did the […]
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