 The saying goes that you can fool some of the people some of the time, but Mercer got your wallet at the street corner when he asked you the time.
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Written by Scott Meadow
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Monday, 05 February 2007 (read 3417 times) |
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 "Boston, MA -- Firearms are used to kill two out of every three homicide victims in America. In the first nationally representative study to examine the relationship between survey measures of household firearm ownership and state level rates of homicide, researchers at the Harvard Injury Control Research Center found that homicide rates among children, and among women and men of all ages, are higher in states where more households have guns. The study appears in the February 2007 issue of Social Science and Medicine." (more)
Also in the March 2007 issue of the Journal of the Completely Obvious, a subsidiary of Duh Publishing. The scientists next are going to study the suspected correlation between blindness and staring directly at the sun. |
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Written by Scott Meadow
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Tuesday, 16 January 2007 (read 3764 times) |
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 It turns out, $600 billion is a very popular number and often makes news. Let's find out why.
$600 billion is the: 1. Approximate cost to put a human on Mars.
2. Approximate proceeds from the worldwide sale of illegal drugs per year.
3. Widely believed cost of the "Y2K bug" to the world economy.
4. Approximate annual sales of all counterfeit products worldwide.
5. Approximate cost of the Vietnam war in 2007 dollars.
6. Approximate amount the U.S. stock market shrunk during 2006.
7. Approximate value of the trade surpluses of oil-producing nations thanks to rising oil prices.
 8. Approximate amount Americans spend on legal gambling.
9. Approximate size of the U.S. travel industry.
10. Approximate cost of the War on Terror for U.S. citizens. |
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Written by Scott Meadow
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Tuesday, 26 December 2006 (read 3905 times) |
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 The NRA has apparently produced a graphic novel that (among other things) attempts to alert readers that "freedom is in peril" presumably because members can't buy an Uzi at Wal-Mart.
The list of bad guys is a standard, uninspired attack of everyone left of Mussolini, but the caricatures are hilarious. 
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Written by Scott Meadow
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Tuesday, 19 December 2006 (read 3666 times) |
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So far people have spent 469 hours "walking" in space around the International Space Station, including the most recent one last week when astronaunts rewired the station. 
Hey, rocket scientists! Stick the fusebox INSIDE the station! |
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