I pulled this image off of NPR’s website about half-an-hour before the South Carolina polls close. I have no idea why it amuses me so much, but when I saw it I just started to laugh.

A few minutes ago a tweet from Al Jazeera popped up in my Twitter feed asking the question: My first thought was: That’s a dumb question; it answers itself. Canada sells asbestos to India because of the domestic ban.  Were there no bans on the stuff, Canadian companies would probably sell it all to Canada [...]

Reddit’s going down in six hours, and Wikipedia is already down. WordPress, where this blog is hosted, isn’t going down, but they have significantly creepified up their main page. Frankly, I think that WordPress’s choice to leave their main page structured normally–just with all the featured blogs essentially redacted–is more interesting than shutting their site [...]

I’d really like to know what happened in the four hours between Jon Huntsman being endorsed by the largest newspaper in South Carolina and him dropping out of the GOP primary race. I’m guessing that with Romney as the frontrunner, Santorum getting the nod from evangelicals, and now Huntsman getting big name endorsements, the field [...]