If, in a a pinch, you find yourself snowed in without either a snow shovel or the on-hand scratch to pay the two thirteen-year-old neighbor kids to do the heavy lifting for you (aside to “Billy” and “Zach”:  if you’re going to start a business in today’s market, you really need to accept major credit cards), a conspiratorial look followed by the whispered offer of a stick of vanilla incense,

A day earlier than usual, but here it is anyway. “I think he’s going to mention the you know whats…”

Danny Rolling was executed last night. Most of us living in Florida will remember his murderous spree 16 years ago. He sang a song as his last statement so I thought I would sing one just for him. to the tune of rawhide. Rolling, rolling, rolling keep the poison flowing hell is where you’re going, Danny Harold Rolling has died! Posted by sherlock from bakerstreet.

Let this be a lesson to you: Gluttonous stars trapped inside star clusters Stars fattened by stealing matter from their neighbours get trapped in the centre of the star clusters they dwell in, Hubble Space Telescope images reveal. A new study of the images also suggests that any black holes contained in these clusters must be relatively small. Massive groupings of stars called globular clusters behave like cosmic sorting machines.

Having read the Podhoretz piece on the Borat film, soon to be released, I made the mistake of expressing my enthusiasm to see the movie, and a commenter set me right: Borat’s been around for several years.  Now every American-Idol watching idiot in sticksville is going to have a Borat t-shirt and what was once funny will be lame. Posted by Pfc. Leftard | permalink on 10/25 at 07:37 PM