Category Archives: Aliens
Mailbag Triple Play
Lots of email has arrived. Better start getting through it. First up today, Mark Spahn, Lord Ruler of West Seneca, New York, has been discussing our site with others—as you are surely doing, if you know what is good for … Continue reading →
If the Aliens Come
Urgent communique flashed in using Morse code from a weather balloon results in this followup. However, because Island Dweller flashed the Morse code in equally-timed one-second pulses to rub our face in it, the message took a while to decode. … Continue reading →
Why AP Might Have A Great Idea
Some people have been kvetching about the Associated Press’ decision to change their descriptions of individuals present in our country illegally. Sure, a lot of the initial criticism ran, use some euphemism that sanitizes what they’re doing! Nice job, AP. … Continue reading →
My Little Action Figures…Geekdom is Magic
FoG Borepatch linked to this My Little Cthulhu action figure over at Deviant Art created someone by the moniker spippo: Your Gormogons, as fans of Lovecraft truly appreciate the craftsmanship of this pony. Dr. J. thought he’d share a few … Continue reading →
Hispanic Voters: Not What You Think
Interestingly, political junkies on both the Left and the Right each seem to have a major misconception about the Hispanic voters in the country. Fair is fair, and let us explain them both. Owners of these small businesses want lower … Continue reading →
You Only Fool Yourselves
Elizabeth Warren’s people believed that the coyote represented the Trickster spirit in legend. Turns out, the real thing works pretty much the same way. One of the ways President Obama won his 2008 election—and all his previous ones—was by his … Continue reading →
He Seemed Fine
So what happened to Herman Cain? For this, we turn to Cain spokeswoman Ellen Ripley: The Czar of MuscovyБожію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar was born in the steppes of Russia in … Continue reading →
Brilliant!
GorT has written about taxes, Keynesian economics, and the current economic situation before but I’m always impressed when I read pieces that add a new dimension to it. This is the case with the brilliant piece by Victor Hanson here. … Continue reading →
SETI Message Received: And It’s Goodbye
You all know that the Gormogons love science dearly—although to be fair, ‘Puter dislikes the mathy-kind of science and likes the coloring-book-kind so much more. Once, he watched a high definition animation of an asteroid crashing into Earth and wiping … Continue reading →
Welcome Your New Alien Overlords
A NASA astrobiologist claims that he has found fossilized evidence of alien life on a microbe. So why hasn’t the press been busting into your regularly scheduled viewing? Perhaps it is because the scientist, Richard Hoover, has done this before, … Continue reading →
How To Get Kidnapped By Aliens
It’s all the rage, kids, isn’t it? Once a side-feature of tabloids, even mainstream, real-news-only publications (such as The New York Post) are discussing the subject of alien abduction. According to some polls, more than 100% of all Americans have … Continue reading →