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Saturday, November 21, 2009

News The Morning News: Health Care in the Senate, Capitol Hill Shooting, and Another Reason The Tunnel Will Destroy Us All

Posted by Garrett McCulloch on Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 9:25 AM

The Battle Continues: The Senate votes on whether to begin debate on health care reform today. Democrats were close to reaching the 60 vote threshhold last night. Every fucking Republican still pledged to vote against it.

Shooting on Capitol Hill: A man was shot in the chest last night, and was in critical condition at Harborview. Few details at this point.

The Tunnel—Still a Crappy Idea: The Sightline Institute looks at the Brightwater sewage treatment tunnel's problems, and says the viaduct replacement tunnel could be just as much of a clusterfuck!

Kids These Days: State school superintendent Randy Dorn wants a delay for math and science testing requirements. 'Cause, you know, the tests aren't working.

There are Always Test Prep Classes: Now available when you're five years old, apparently.

At Least Some People Aren't Dicks: People have donated over $100,000 worth of food to the Rainier Valley food bank that was robbed last week.

Berkeley Protesters: Dozens of the people occupying a campus building at UC-Berkeley were arrested last night.

Today in Smashing Particles Into Each Other: The gigantic particle accelerator in Switzerland is almost ready to resume experiments to create Big Bang-like conditions.

It's the History Eraser Button, you fool!

History Eraser Button (Ren and Stimpy) - The most amazing bloopers are here

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Garret, please have a sense of decorum. Don't use profane adjectives in your lead ins. There we be plenty of sloggers who will do that in the comments.

Posted by raindrop on November 21, 2009 at 9:58 AM

Oh, raindrop, you're just mad because he said "fucking Republicans." Well, they are, aren't they?

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty

on November 21, 2009 at 10:21 AM

I have a primal instinct of fear every time I hear about the collider being put to use. I'm not a religious person but sometimes things should just be left unfigured out. How will will benefit from existence being wiped out?

Posted by Annag on November 21, 2009 at 10:53 AM

@2 He also said "clusterfuck", which my Mozilla spellchecker doesn't seem to like.

@3 Are you afraid they will tap into some unkown or misunderstood atomic force? Maybe that's how OUR Big Bang happened. A science experiment gone wrong. Intelligent design my ass!

Posted by Mahtli69 on November 21, 2009 at 11:11 AM

Ah, yes, "clusterfuck." It's a good word. I'd have a hard time coming up with a synonym that says it quite so well.

Have you ever noticed that all the good words for things being screwed up beyond belief originated with the military? Clusterfuck, FUBAR, SNAFU. Well, I guess they should know.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty

on November 21, 2009 at 11:36 AM

@5:

I've always figured that was simply a by-product of the sheer enormity of WW-II era military operations; when something went decidedly south and 100,000 soldiers were involved someone was bound to invent these sorts of terms to describe a debacle of such proportions.

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