Jon Stewart for President in ’08.
Rifftrax
Michael J. Nelson rules. Keeping with what made him famous, he’s come up with Rifftrax. From the site: Do you feel that some of the movies coming out of Hollywood are just, well, missing something? At RiffTrax, you can download Mike’s running commentaries and listen to them along with your favorite, and not so favorite [...]
Intelligent Falling
The Onion reports that evangelical physicists refute gravity in favor of an “intelligent falling” theory. From the article: “Things fall not because they are acted upon by some gravitational force, but because a higher intelligence, ‘God’ if you will, is pushing them down,” said Gabriel Burdett, who holds degrees in education, applied Scripture, and physics [...]
The Lord of the Ph.D.
Dave Pritchard suggests that the Lord of the Rings is an allegory for the quest for a Ph.D. Funny. The end strikes a chord: “While his friends return to settling down and finding jobs and starting families, Frodo remains in limbo; finally, along with Gandalf, Elrond and many others, he joins the brain drain across [...]