Michael Flynn's Blog, page 95

What Aliens Are Watching Tonight

Where Are the Shows of Yesteryear?

If aliens are out there monitoring our television or radio, this is what their getting....

Having it Your Way

Suppose

You made a map showing the location of every McDonald's franchise in the US of A.  It would look like this:



Where is the farthest point from any McD?  The answer, per Stephen von Worley, is
There, in a patch of rolling grassland, loosely hemmed in by Bismarck, Dickinson, Pierre, and the greater Rapid City-Spearfish-Sturgis metropolitan area, we find our answer.

Between the tiny Dakotan hamlets of Meadow and Glad Valley lies the McFarthest Spot: 107 miles distant from the nearest...

What is Truth, Asked Mocking Pilate?

After all, we condition them from birth, starting with Sesame Street, to a lack of patience...  Oh, look!  A bird!

Headlines, We Got Headlines

This is Why They Call it Climate Change!

"Georgia Drought of 'Historical Proportions': Climate Change Hits the Backyard; Global Warming 'Worst-Case Scenario' Drought Unfolding in Dixie?"--headline and subheadline, TheDailyGreen.com, Sept. 29, 2007"Georgia's 'Historic' Rain Kills 7 as Emergency Issued"--headline, Bloomberg, Sept. 22, 2009"North Pole May Be Ice-Free for First Time This Summer"--headline, National Geographic Web site, June 20, 2008"Arctic Ice to Last Decades Longer Than...

Thought for the Day

In the Neverending Quest for Rights....

Why would anyone demand a "right" to kill himself, as though ropes, sleeping pills, pistols, bridges, razor blades, and large bodies of water with riptides do not exist.-- Mark Shea (slightly paraphrased)

Coming soon to an underground bunker near you....

Just When You Think That There Are No Weirder Conspiracy Theories Out There

Forget Van Jones and the Truther conspiracy that Bush brought down the World Trade Center.  Forget the Birthers and the gigantic cover-up of Obama's true birthplace.  Forget Area 51 and Roswell.  Forget even Dan Brown and the albino assassin monk from an order that has no monks, or the long twilight struggle between the Freemasons and the Vatican. 

The truth has now come out about Denver International Airport!  Read an...

Philosophical Insights of the Day

Why Philosophy and Engineering Do Not Mix




Why Philosophy and Football Do Not Mix

Now that Eid Has Come and Gone

A Gross Insult to British Muslims

…The UK Home Office staff were warned officially... www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1214691/Dont-eat-near-Ramadan-fasters-Home-Office-staff-told.html

[The UK:] Home Office staff were officially warned not to eat in front of their fasting Muslim colleagues during Ramadan – in case it made them feel hungry.

The advice came in a taxpayer-funded internal document listing do’s and don’ts during the Muslim holy month, which ends this weekend.
…
The Home Office...

How Star Wars Would Happen Today

Great Moments in Filmdom

Don't Just Do Something, Stand There!

Source of Swine Flu Discovered!!!



BTW, how many times do we have to go through this cycle of overblown predictions, hysterical overreactions, and ordinary outcomes before we learn to discount the fact that Those Who Would Be Our Saviors have a deep need to Find Things from which to Save Us?