It's like watching an oversized 5-year-old.

I wonder what motivation the cops have to do this. Do they actually take direct orders from politicians (who I could see having some motivation)?

Wow, her English is good. And she also speaks perfect Italian and French. Kind of a hot chick...

>> ^MrDerrick:

Where are the drums coming from?


My first question was how did that small man with his guitar get inside this glowing thing on my desk...

That's a weird kind of sarcasm or whatever in the description. I suppose you actually mean "Apparently yes!"

Upvote for the domain name! Wee!

I can't believe somebody found a new angle (for me at least) into this matter. Doesn't surprise it was David Mitchell, though.

You got that, Mims?

"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve." -Bilbo

You misspelled it in the title and tags...

I like how he said defense in quotations. I've often heard seemingly intelligent Americans speaking of the troops in Iraq/Afghanistan say that they're "fighting for our freedom."

It's clearly not the military's job to keep American citizens safe today. The best defense against terrorist attacks at the moment seems to be the airport security. The military is just an alternative to diplomacy in foreign affairs.

>> ^mxxcon:

>> ^rgroom1:
is there a time frame for how long that solar event took?

i think that's realtime, not timelapse


No way that's real time. Just think about the scale of that eruption...

There are some videos of similar events on YouTube with timers.

This one lasts around 10 hours: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSM7wtfSWXk

( More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_prominence )

>> ^alizarin:

The part that seems unbelievable is the subtle gradients... ball point pens are on or off, they don't do fade from light to dark and they don't explain the trick. I think it's faked or at least helped along like maybe he's smudging wet ink or something else not shown.


Check arvana's link.

Some priest should molest Justin Bieber? Bill sure knows how to combine the unclassy and the unfunny.

I agree with him on many issues but he should really hire some better writing staff. A lot of the material feels forced and most of the time he just looks at the audience waiting for the laughs and then shrugs as if the audience didn't get the joke when in fact it just wasn't that funny.

>> ^chilaxe:
Maddow must be similarly outraged that liberal scientists like those in this video refuse to release their raw data, lest it give ammunition to their opponents.

I think there's more raw data available from climate research than one person can go through in a year. The "controversy" was about them making the different kinds of data fit their model, which can be a bit complex when different methods can be unreliable for some periods of time etc.

Although I'm pretty sure this won't change your opinion one bit. Goddamn republicans...