Top Ten Advantages to LHD Coming Online
Posted by Hazel Stone | Filed under Ephemera
Tomorrow, the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest particle accelerator, comes online. Some believe this heralds the end of life as we know it, the utter destruction of the Earth, and/or a rise in fuel prices. We here at Casa de Ligne know better, and here are the Top Ten reasons not to fear: Resulting [...]
Tags: creating news where there is none, international, science-y
Getting Away With It
Posted by Hazel Stone | Filed under Over The Seas
Wow, those IOC officials are just the most thorough investigators I’ve ever seen. And integrity? Boatloads of integrity. Where “thorough” means “half-arsed,” and “integrity” of course means “hey, cross my palm, comrade, and I’ll verify whatever the hell you want me to verify.” **Links via This + That, a nifty (apparently) new site that bite-sizes [...]
Tags: international, olympic games
Machine-Men
Posted by Hazel Stone | Filed under Ephemera
Yes, I’m going to post about the Olympics again. I would like to know in which bio-engineering lab Michael Phelps was assembled. And can’t we ALL go in for some much-needed upgrades? I could use a new right knee. Ted could use a new spinal column. I’d like to do some after-market mods on the [...]
Tags: international, olympic games
The Lalympics
Posted by Hazel Stone | Filed under Ephemera
I think one of the kids called it that when they were younger. We have many words that have become stuck in our vocabulary that date from the kids’ infancy…noonles, bapple, sponsitility. People often must think we’re retarded when these slip into conversation. Aaaanyway… I don’t care what you think of his politics, his presidency, [...]
Tags: international, olympic games
The Case for Colombia
Posted by Ted Bronson | Filed under Capitalism
Free trade with our best ally in South America is, in caps, A GOOD THING. I can think of at least three reasons for that statement. 1) Free trade with Colombia opens up new and currently growing markets for American goods and services. This country has about 45 million or so people living within its [...]
Tags: international, too damn vivid
There’s a Good Boy!
Posted by Hazel Stone | Filed under Buttinskis, Over The Seas
This one gives me a headache: France’s cabinet is to hear a proposal to make breathalysers mandatory at late-night clubs and cafes from this summer when it meets on Monday. … The move comes after a weekend of road accidents, some alcohol-related. On the one hand, no way, no HOW, should your government be wiping [...]
Tags: international, use your head
