Akademik Shokalskiy Flat Landers Cause Environmental Disaster

Hapless Akademik Shokalskiy flat landers cause environmental disaster, from New Zealand Herald:

The hapless Australasian Antarctic Expedition is finally homeward bound – and thousands of trees will have to be planted to offset the carbon footprint from the prolonged

Is sex rape, or are some particular forms of sex always rape?    Radical Wind  says yes:

Just to recall a basic fact: intercourse/PIA is always rape, plain and simple.

This is a developed recap from what I’ve been saying in

A Ship of Fools, From the BBC:

The Chinese ice-breaker that helped rescue passengers stranded on the Akademik Shokalskiy vessel in Antarctica may now itself be stuck.

An Australian ice-breaker carrying the rescued passengers has been placed on standby

The United States Marine Corps is not what it used to be, by Pauline Jelinek:

WASHINGTON (AP) – More than half of female Marines in boot camp can’t do three pullups, the minimum standard that was supposed to

Hanna Rosen writing at Time snarks:

Are men literally obsolete? Of course not, and if we had to prove that we could never win. For one thing, we haven’t figured out a way to harvest sperm without them being, you

The nun-sense that emanates from Washington,  a smart person knows the limits of his knowledge.    Kathleen Sebelius is not a smart person, for she recognizes no limits to her presumed expertise.   A smart person would realize that a nun requires

The New York Slimes tried to analogize Barack Obama’s man made disaster of Obama Care to Dubys’a response to the natural disaster that was Katrina. For her part, Professor Ann Althouse was having none of it, the Snark of the

The Snark of the Day, from Glenn  Reynolds:

ACTUALLY, AS WE LEARNED WITH SARAH PALIN’S FAMILY, IT’S ONLY THE CHILDREN OF DEMOCRATS WHOM DECENCY PLACES OFF-LIMITS: “Quite aside from racial politics, I thought children were off limits. Here you

About the only thing wrong with this story is that Algore is not on board, from Paul Tilsey, Fox News:

The leader of a scientific expedition whose ship remains stranded in Antarctic ice says the team, which set out

A slush fund is money which a politician can use with no strings attached, and with no supervision. Governor Andrew “JMario, Jr.” Coumo has set up such a fund, from Green Biz:

New York’s first bank dedicated to boosting

View Jesus as a savior or just a victim of Roman justice, nobody, to my knowledge, has ever called Jesus a mugger.   Yet some demented wack job replaced a depiction of Jesus in the manger, with the late mugger Trayvon

The Reverend Jesse Jackson wanted to tell A&E where to put Phil and Duck Danasty, from Legal Insurrection:

According to ABC, Jackson is urging A&E to uphold Robertson’s suspension and requests an urgent meeting with A&E and Cracker Barrel

Phil Robertson quotes Scripture, and the Reverend Jesse Jackson gets offended.   Jackson as attributed by ABC News:

“These statements uttered by Robertson are more offensive than the bus driver in Montgomery, Alabama, more than 59 years ago.”

I find

Mikhail Kalashnikov, the inventor of the AK-47, has died, from the BBC:

The inventor of the Kalashnikov assault rifle, Mikhail Kalashnikov, has died aged 94, Russian officials say.

The automatic rifle he designed became one of the world’s most

Parents is it safe to send your son to Occidental? From the L.A. Slimes:

Occidental College has been barraged with bogus allegations of sexual assault in recent days after two groups, one claiming to represent “men’s rights,” set out