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Too Much Coffee Man hasn't been all that good in a while (though in retrospect it's entirely possible I was never really into it all that much outside of the objective appreciation for it that I still have) but Shannon Wheeler's photo-laden journal entries continue to amuse me. I love this straightforward account of his time hanging out at a singles auction full of rich drunk people acting poorly.

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The president is injecting anti-scientific commissars into NASA with the goal of promoting Intelligent Design by denying, in NASA publications, the factuality of the Big Bang.

Going to Mars... my ass. His guys probably think we haven't gotten beyond the Moon yet because the crystal spheres have gotten in the way.

Also the commissar in question, one Mr. George Deutsch, has been busily denying NASA scientists the opportunity to speak about global warming. I just heard Dr. Jim Hansen on WBUR's On-Point talking about both climate change and the fact that he was willingly putting his job in danger by ignoring this request from his administrative superiors by consenting to an interview anyway.