April 2011
“Correction: February 6, 2011
An article on Jan. 16 about drilling for oil off...”
– Off Coast of Angola, the Will to Drill for Oil - NYTimes.com
Today in sumo history →
On evolution
Several thousand years ago, a small tribe of ignorant near-savages wrote various collections of myths, wild tales, lies, and gibberish. Over the centuries, these stories were embroidered, garbled, mutilated, and torn into small pieces that were then repeatedly shuffled. Finally, this material was badly translated into several languages successively. The resultant text, creationists feel, is the...
Sinister picture emerges of boy's waterhole death →
“The eight-year-old boy was found in the waterhole near Borroloola with rocks in his shorts and head wounds two days after being reported missing to police.
Police initially declared the death an accident …”
The Battle of Chernobyl →
“The most dangerous element that came out of the Chernobyl reactor wasn’t cesium or plutonium, but lies.”
