The Internet has a term for it: Godwin’s Law. The law reads, “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.” Because the Internet is an extension of the real world (e.g., celebrities’ buzz cuts and nipple slips), the go-to comparison of anything to Hitler is based on its frequent occurrence in every debate since 1941. So a new question arises: is everything today related in some way to Adolf Hitler and, as Walter Sobchak put it, the tenets of National Socialism?
Continue reading Take it from Snee: Will the real Hitler please stand up?
The world is going to hell in one of those cute little baskets on the front of girls’ tricycles–everyone knows that. In times like these, sometimes the only respite we have can be found at the bottom of a bottle. But on beaches across the country (OK, maybe just the coastal areas) local governments are working to ban booze from our nation’s shores.
Once again, our uneasy relationship with scientists is firmed up just a little bit more, as a new study comes out and says something that we agree with for a change. Finally, there is some evidence that a comet didn’t kill the dinosaurs. While this blog believes it was humans, in one of the earliest battles of the War on Animals, the study says it may have been one animal allies that betrayed the thunder lizards: insects.