Well this is depressing

From cracked.com, 6 socially conscious practices that might do more harm than good.

Another reason to hate the TSA

Read this story about a woman fired by the TSA for her religious beliefs. Carole Smith was terminated at the end of a long chain of events set off by coworker Mary Bagnoli's report that "she was afraid of Smith because she was a witch who practiced witchcraft. She accused Smith of following her on the highway one snowy evening after work and casting a spell on the heater of her car, causing it not to work"

Which employee would you sack?

My favorite quotation, from the Wiccan (former) security agent herself: "We don't cast spells. That's not witchcraft. That's Black Magic or Voodoo or something else. to put a spell on the heater of a car, if I had that kind of power, I wouldn't be working for TSA. I would go buy lottery tickets and put a spell on the balls".

Is it just me...

...or is this article criminally idiotic? Please read it and decide for yourself, and if I've made a mistake here, let me know. The pervasive error seems to be a confusion between the proportion of funds allocated to a particular cause with the absolute amount of funding made available. Maybe our hearts would do better to bleed in underdeveloped nations plagued by preventable hunger and curable disease, but how can Salmon claim that donated money does more harm than good?

Salmon also states that "Japan is a wealthy country which is responding to the disaster, among other things, by printing hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of new money. Money is not the bottleneck here: if money is needed, Japan can raise it."


Again, despite my heritage, I'm no expert in economics, but wouldn't an influx of money form outside the country be more helpful than the government printing more? Hasn't the Japanese government's decision to print more money (called "quantitative easing" when that money is then put into foreign bonds and the like, I just learned) in the last few weeks contributed, along with a beleaguered Nikkei, to the steadily falling Yen? Like I said before, someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

Countries not on the metric system

Catch-22

Fox News - It would be funny if people didn't actually take this seriously

This is the actual headline. Ready?

Child's Nightmares and Memories Prove Reincarnation

Religious fanaticism in the US Congress

Here's the article

If you don't believe it, watch this

For more fun and games, watch this

I'd like to stress that this man would like to be the next chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee

How to strut yo stuff

This article will tell you all you need to know about attracting a mate. Congratulations. Also, the videos are beyond hilarious.

Seriously Mark?

Thank you, Facebook, for institutionalizing everything I love