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The Judge Alito hearings have been interesting, I daresay. He may not be as slick as Ch. Justice Roberts, but he has various responses (or non-substantive responses, but they’re far more interesting than his opening statement). Dahlia Lithwick in Slate continues to be quite amusing, I daresay, regarding the Alito hearings. (from [...]

On the return of Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report” from winter vacation, the first word on its daily feature “The WØRD” was celebrated as the American Dialect Society’s 2005 Word of the Year: truthiness - “the quality of preferring concepts or facts one wishes to be true, rather than concepts or facts known to be [...]

So, in the news…
The North Star has a companion star.
Apparently, even though black holes are incredibly powerful, a one-way trip into a black hole still takes 200,000 years. Boy, does that make me feel relieved to know it’s not that easy to get sucked into a black hole. (well, my understanding [...]