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1. 3 days ago on Frog Applause

   Counterpoint: Perry Bible Fellowship was an add not so long ago, and it is vastly weirder than Frog Applause, and isn’t even always original.

   For my money, Frog Applause deserves to stick around at least until PBF goes away.

2. 7 months ago on Frazz

   What’s fascinating to me about Einstein, as a physicist, is that Einstein is famous among physicists for his lack of imagination about the nature of quantum mechanics, despite the fact that his Nobel Prize was awarded for work that functionally kicked off the quantum mechanical revolution (a description of the photoelectric effect, which requires accepting some very fundamentally quantum mechanical features of reality, which are things that were not universally accepted when he proposed them).

3. almost 8 years ago on Frog Applause

   It’s radiating! So cool….

4. over 12 years ago on Lisa Benson

   What the Tea Party faithful appear to believe about Lisa Benson’s opinion….

   http://www.teapartynation.com/forum/topic/show?id=3355873%3ATopic%3A1799865&xgs=1&xg_source=msg_share_topic

5. almost 15 years ago on Lisa Benson

   “Mix a snifter of Bill Mauldin, a dash of Jeff McNelly and a very large dollop of common sense, and you begin to get an idea of Lisa Benson’s considerable talent.”

   If Ms. Benson has any common sense, I’ve yet to see it displayed in her work. Her ignorance of science and economics, however, is profound, even as her ability to illustrate RNC talking points impresses.

   The pity is that Benson and her fellow travelers won’t live long enough to fully appreciate the consequences to humanity of failing to act. Understand: we are not “destroying the planet.” We are destroying our habitat on this planet. We are destroying the planet’s ability to support us.

   We risk the end of technological society, and the extinction of more than 50% of the species which currently exist because we are destroying their habitat. And all so we don’t have to suffer a little economic pain in the short term.

6. about 16 years ago on Ted Rall

   I Love Ted Rall’s work. But the simple fact is that Nature has conducted this experiment repeatedly every day in virtually every segment of the universe since its inception (the notion that the conditions “last existed” a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang is just a touch misleading– it’s more accurate to say that the conditions that will be created in the LHC last predominated in the universe a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang, which is completely different).

   We’re still here, the Moon’s still there, as is Mars, etc.

   We’re not going to die. At least not from rogue miniature black holes that don’t obey Hawking radiation nor from strangelets.

   Really.