Still heroes

These guys just get rocketed into space at thousands of miles an hour strapped to a giant fuel tank. Not brave at all...nah, all in a days work for the US Astronauts. Godspeed.

WWJD

Apparently the Southern Baptists are now saying He would save the environment because they're now saying their followers have a duty to stop global climate change. Have you noticed the name for "global climate change" has changed over the years. It used to be called "global warming" remember? Well, then we realized we were all freezing our butts off for the past few winters and so it became "climate change". Man is definitely polluting the Earth, are we causing it to warm or cool in any substantial way? No. And NO ONE has incontrovertible evidence to either side. But I say while we're doing all of this research on it, let's scare the crap out of everyone and cause the world to spend more money and time on trying to solve a problem that probably doesn't exist instead of maybe, I don't know, curing cancer or establishing science in the pursuit of a cheap and sustainable energy source. That would make too much sense though.

Surviors' stairway

I didn't even know this thing existed, but it seems like a great piece of the history of what happened on September 11.

They're in a pickle

These two states are having some difficulties because they didn't follow the DNC's rules. Now there's a fight going on to see what delegates get seated, if any. A good editorial.

Feeling depressed?

Just take a drink of tap water. It's been talked about for a while, but federal researchers have now shown that different types of pharmaceuticals (anti-depressants, anti-convulsives, ibuprofen, naproxen and even cattle antibiotics) are all in our drinking water. Or at least in the water in and around D.C. has that stuff in it. I'm betting there's junk in your water too. Scientists say the amounts ingested are not enough to affect you in the short time, but they don't know the long term effects. Great...now I have to worry about the hormone infused meat I eat, the processed cheese...and the water I drink. There's a possibility my generation might turn out to be a bunch of mutated weirdos when we're older.