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The decline and fall of one of the great villains in sports history continues, as Roger Clemens has now been indicted for the crime of lying while under oath before the United States Congress, on questions related to his use of performance-enhancing drugs while playing for Major League Baseball. Imagine…it’s actually a crime to lie [...]

Much like the wonders of the world beyond the Earth, the intricacies of the human body fascinate me to no end.  That a seemingly unending array of complex, specialized cells, proteins, and amino acids work together to perform the life-sustaining functions of metabolism is a miracle in and of itself, be it one of divine [...]

Arriving soon, courtesy of the municipal government of the City of New York: the “official” NYC condom, in a special limited designer edition! After assessing hundreds of possible package designs for a special limited-edition NYC Condom, a panel of judges has selected five finalists. The Health Department has received nearly 600 entries since December 15, [...]

In the interest of full disclosure, “House, MD” could be my favorite television show of all time.  The combination of pithy, sarcastic humor, witty banter, and grave seriousness match my own twisted personality nearly perfectly, and I can easily watch each episode time and again, one after another, without even remotely suffering from boredom or [...]

(Inspired in large part thanks to a similar post on The Cranky Conservative…) – It’s hard for someone as humble as me to admit it, but turns out I was way ahead of the curve in declaring President Barack Hussein Obama the Anti-Christ: a solid nine percent of the residents of the fine state of [...]

I’m a few days behind on my news, but that really shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone that has ever read this site with any regularity.  Anyway, I wanted to make a comment on a certain meme that went around Twitter and Facebook this week; a little sweet-sounding, simple, and very effective slogan promoting healthcare [...]

I don’t know about you, but if it ever comes to pass that I need to be cut wide open and have my insides poked and prodded by a trained specialist, I want to be freaking out cold when it happens and remember nothing upon awakening. In India, though, some revolutionary new techniques involve keeping [...]

After a fantastic run in the 1980s and 1990s, Nintendo suffered through tough times for the better part of a decade.  It lost the system wars two generations in a row to the Sony PlayStation juggernaut, and had unfortunately cultivated a reputation where hardcore gamers and third-party developers were taught to stay away from the [...]

I’m forever fascinated by the unending pull between science and the magical unknown. Is there a God in Heaven, or is our existence merely attributable to random, complex biochemical chance? Is the Universe finite and concrete or part of a larger 12-dimensional membrane bubble? Is there such a thing as “love,” or rather is it [...]