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Daily Archives: February 1st, 2009

Ben Stein expelled from Vermont

Sunday, February 1, 2009

There has been a bit of a storm brewing in the reality based scientific community, Darwin division, since Ben Stein was named to be the commencement speaker at the University of Vermont. Stein was the front man for a film called Expelled, which was ostensibly about the victimization of Darwin doubting scientists, but which was, […]

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Hygienic Art Show, XXX

Sunday, February 1, 2009

This is Super Bowl Sunday. Super Bowls are counted in Roman Numerals, and so are Hygienic Art Shows. For those of you not from the New London area, the Hygienic Art Show is a yearly event held in what was once a restaurant, and is now an art gallery. The rules are simple: One Piece […]

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Our funny Senator

Sunday, February 1, 2009

Lieberman jokes about waterboarding (via Think Progress): More from Senator Lieberman: ‘We had hoped Vice President Cheney would be here tonight. I hope it’s not his back injury that’s keeping him away.Apparently, he hurt it moving some things out of his office. Personally, I had no idea that waterboards were so heavy. It might be […]

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Connecticut Slipping?

Sunday, February 1, 2009

This being Sunday, Super or not, it’s an appropriate day to try to offend some religious sensibilities, but I’m sorry to say that in the process I must take my home state to task. I reported back in June that Connecticut was NUMBER THREE!, trailing only Vermont and New Hampshire, in the degree to which […]

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