Conan Rants About "Boron Morons"

By purepedantry on February 10, 2009.

Check out this hysterical rant by Conan about Boron misreporting (below the fold).

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Why does everybody have to hate on Kant?

This Kant attack ad is awesome: 1) I love the "I'll make his picture get all blurry to make you think that his ideas are blurry" theme. It taps into the visually blurry = morally relative circuit that appears to be innate to the human species. 2) It is secondarily awesome because I get to go on a…

Whom does god hate now?

The following image (below the fold) is a little large (that is why it is below the fold). Over one half meg in size. It is a map of major flooding around the world over the last several years, not counting this year and last. If you add in the present flooding in the Midwest, it is very clear…

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