Much gnashing of teeth in the blogosphere over Micheal Steele's slip, and the reaction to the slip, and the reaction to the reaction ... Except this wasn't a slip! A slip is saying nice butt when I meant to say nice dress, or asking a lady when she's due who isn't pregnant. What Steele did was an intentional lie taken straight from the 2010 GOP playbook of blaming every cluster-fuck inherited from the Bush WH on Obama. Republicans do it all day long behind closed doors and in front of cameras, on the economy, on the oil spill, on unemployment extensions, on everything they can think of and the media mostly goes right along. Had Rush said it instead of Steele, they'd all pretend this lie makes sense too.
- What's taller than a skyscraper and colder than Mitch McConnell's dark heart? The IceCube neutrino telescope.
- Want to live past 100? Eat low cal, exercise, yada-yada ... or have these 150 unique genetic markers.
- Biggest single blossom in the plant kingdom blooms in Berkeley. But trust us, you do not want to ever send this rare giant flower to anyone you like!
- PZ finds this mangled explanation in a Republican-Jesus approved science text on the mystery of electricity. The gist being don't bother trying to understand it because its animated by divine magic far beyond the grasp of mere mortals:
I can also do the zombie shuffle across the carpet to build up an excess of charged particles and touch the cat to allow them to flow, creating electricity myself, like unto a God. I do not have to create particles to make electricity, I just have to make them move.
- Congrats to Dr. Micheal Mann who's research on climate change was vindicated in yet another comprehensive investigation. We fondly recall how quickly that episode changed Hannity's view on cybertheft: