Take a close look at our constitution...

The bedrock of our legal system...without a fault.

Maybe I want a soda or some popcorn?

The occasional error of interpretation, of course...generally corrected in time.

Feel the revulsion.

thanks jdh

When it rains...it pours.

Believe me, I would love to talk more about particle physics, cosmology, and consciouness. In doing so, one learns more while explaining it; but the current temptation sprouted legs this morning when, according to Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post, Nikki Haley rid her website of Mark Sanford's photo. Something was in the air.

Sure enough, right on the heels of Senator John Ensign's (R) admission of an ongoing affair and after a loooong string of similar improprieties by various members of the GOP (that we do not need to list because it would take too much space)... South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford (R) just confessed under extreme media pressure that he'd been having an extramarital affair with a woman in South America and that's the reason he vanished without a trace for five days to Argentina:



...and he apparently has the balls to ask for forgiveness. Can you believe that! Left his four boys, fatherless on Father's Day. Party of Family Values?? I don't think so ... next thing, you know, they'll be asking forgiveness for incest and bestiality ... in all actuality, who the f#$% cares.

jeez! spare us!

Accolades and thanks to blogger and podcaster Ragan Fox, for introducing the public to the concept of hypoChristians. Maybe after the Sanford stunt, it'll take off.

Media Wars

How to sell WAR on the pages of the New York Times...



Twitter...no longer the third rail of the media. In fact, it is used by various media outlets, much to their chagrin, in efforts to co-opt or assimilate the phenomenon .

listening post

In Superposition...

and in particle heaven.

Generations of Matter

I'm going to have to carry one of these charts around on a laminated card...never know when I might need it.

particle heaven

ride the wave

you know yourself

there's no external timetable

Light Embedded

Earth's dark side
cities seem as galaxies
scattered across a scaffold
void-filled universe

What is said,

...seen
what is done
increasing luxuriance

metaphoric impressions
immeasurably comprehensive

bearing miniscule vast limits

...wrh

Linus Pauling

Linus Pauling

LHC

To those who think the Large Hadron Collider will destroy us all with a mini black hole...too late; its been done.

Fairytale

Alexander Rybak, Eurovision 2009 Winner.

Fehrenbach on Maddow

The NCNA Party

The NCNA party, a.k.a the G.O.P., a.k.a. the party of the big inclusive tent ;)  a.k.a. the party of Lincoln (140 years ago),  or just plain a.k.a. Republicans, are going through their re-branding. 

They're not the first to do so... like XE, a.k.a. Blackwater.

...and why wouldn't they want to distance themselves from themselves?

....catchy tune.

Good Time For A...

European vacations on sale - Apr. 13, 2009

One lump or two?

A party without a rudder is adrift.
Nothing new.

FOX news,

attempts to portray tax day with a teabag protest.
An attempt that is far off mark.

A lame attempt at intellectualism

equating the great Boston tea party with our current financial f#@k up.



Grass roots? HA! More like Astroturf.
If people are out in droves now

(actually, a dribble)

over the cliff they all will go

their remains donated to science
if only science will have them.

...where were all the teabaggers the past eight years?

... the FOX thinks they were all watching FOX news

and nothing else.

Fish Out Of Water

..."a documentary that explores the impassioned relationship between homosexuality and the Bible."

...comment by Matt Alber:

Closer to Dark Matter

Almost daily more is revealed about the nature of dark matter. The PAMELA satellite indicates a heavy emission of positrons in space that may be the result of colliding dark matter particles. One thing these particles could then be are winos, a specific kind of neutralino which is "the supersymmetric partner of a particle called the W boson" ...

Along with Z bosons, the W boson carries the weak force which is the player in radioactive decay.