more criticism and parsing of the Expelled argument here:

http://www.expelledexposed.com/

It's pretty cool, in the "find the references" puzzle illustration sort of way.

However the big question is - #3 and #16 - you have to ask spousal permission to buy a $20 print?

"Does anyone know if these methods work for killing other complex devices?"

I think hitting any complex device with a large enough hammer should work.

Raingear?

That's one hell of an espresso maker.

Ironic, since she eviscerated Discover Magazine in a post a month or so ago for errors in their '20 Things You Didn't Know About Science Fiction" list.

Oh well, nothing like trufans (tm) to take the fun out of something.

You're missing the point here - we should be celebrating this, since it is increasingly rare for parents and children to find common ground and interests....

Scottish love doll?

I use these for work and photo logging - various formats - lined, graph, transit - and water resistant:

http://www.riteintherain.com/

When hair stylists are outlawed, only outlaws will have hair stylists.

"Maybe inspired by those John Varley novels set on Saturn's artificial moon?"

I think they are based on the fuxes from Medea, by Harlan Ellison, Larry Niven, et al.

http://www.islets.net/collections/medea.html

...And I would have gotten away with it, if it hadn't been for these meddling kids and their dog...

Where's the Landmaster?

Investigators are waiting for the other shoe to drop.

I thought there'd be more monkeys.

Still not as cool as a black light poster of a unicorn riding a snowmobile.

http://www.hrwiki.org/images/f/fc/Trailer_pony.PNG

PRADA's Labyrinth?

Apparently, there's an Army version, too, since these guys have brought their own asses...

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d104/NWKlr650/ed6d0b2e.jpg

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d104/NWKlr650/26a34356.jpg

"Wiener Poopie Ransom Notes for Jesus" - great band name.

My guess is that's the only fast thing about him.

COBRAAAAA!!!!

Zombie Lurches - all fun and games until someone initiates their Zombie Plan...

WANT!!!

But my Blue Yabbie and black shark would still manage to find and harass one another.

I find old maps fascinating, because they show the state and limitations of human understanding about the world around them at that time (see: "Here be dragons" and blank white spaces in the center of Africa)...

For instance, I have a reproduction of an 1864 Army map of the U.S Southwest on my office wall - the Grand Canyon is not labeled or delineated, and the Colorado River only an indistinct dotted line through the region. And that map is "only" 144 years old.

And old maps are beautiful - many are hand-drawn one-offs or copies on the durable media of the time, using garish pigments and flourishes.

Heh, we had that vacuum too. My mom now has an upright and bitches about how superior the old Electrolux was.

Don't forget that you both have to talk the whole day using Monster Truck Announcer Voice (tm).

"SUNDAYSUNDAYSUNDAY!!!"

Pepe Moreno's "Rebel," originally published in Heavy Metal in 1986, showed a partially-demolished tower after a civil war. The heroes of the story took down the remaining tower (used as a headquarters for the neo-fascist state and their cronies) by blowing up an explosives-laden van in the subway tunnels under the remaining tower, ala the 1993 WTC bombing:

http://desourcesure.com/uploadv3/bdtour11septembre.jpg

http://desourcesure.com/uploadv3/photopremonition11septembre2.jpg

I, for one, welcome our new space-roach overlords.

Squids!

Heh.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4337419a11.html

Per a friend on the ice, "the dude that got hit was an ass... "

Bacon: Chocolate for men.

It's whatever is inside of the briefcase in 'Pulp Fiction" or the car trunk in 'Repo Man."

"...We got a zillion little gadgets to keep your mind off the fact that its getting too big too fast. Why there's even the Auto Suck which is designed to take care of your anxiety over it getting too big too fast. You know, the Auto Suck, the little gadget you plug into your car lighter and stick on your dick so that while you're racing from one doodad to another you can shoot your cookies over all the pretty girls you don't have time to stop and fuck. And believe me, gizmo broadcasting knows how obsessed you are with sex, because they've shot a lot of hot neon pussy through your tubes, trying to get you to buy every doodad under the sun...so they have created the Auto Suck especially for you...but I digress..."

-Harold in Patrick Meyers' 'K2', 1980.

...and for the ladies, the VibeRider:

http://viberider.com/vibe_rider.asp

I am so finding these for my girlfriend (research microbiologist).

Yeah, but can I get them in 180/55 ZR17?

Transmetropolitan called. He wants his cat back.

Wearable Faraday cage?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcalasGr_uk

and in other news, someone found a pig.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8SOFBPO0&show_article=1&lst=1

Ha - terrifying inch-long monsters of the deep...

note from the g/f, who studied squids in a previous lifetime:

"I think that's an illusion. Squid have sharp beaks, and i think that the 'teeth' are really soft tissue (like suckers or something) that are striped and make it look like a nice smile."

"If you feel dirty, insignificant and unloved then rats are a good role model. They exist without permission, they have no respect for the hierarchy of society and they have sex fifty times a day. "

- Banksy

@AdventureBum - true - rereading the OP reveals that the point is not so much some particular industry/lifestyle/activity group, but what constitutes a Real American (tm) ... to be pandered to be politicos or quizzed by lazy journalists...

Anyway, I recall reading somewhere that Oregon was the most 'average' state in that it matched average US demographics, or income, or something (I can't find the reference and could be mistaken).

If so, what we're looking for is a WoW-playing Oregon farmer to interview.

"Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!"

You're missing the point of the OP - Why does the guvmint pander to a bloc of a 'few' farmers vs. another random group?

Because the value of the US' ag products is over $200 billion, contributes about $100 billion to the economy, and food is one of the few products we still export.

I doubt the WoW players do that.

Just imagining the National Pubic Lice Preserve.

eegh.

I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.

Treepour, et al,

The Ellison essay you are thinking of is "Valerie, A True Memoir" (1972) - Yup. 1st thing I thought of when I read this, too.

Or you can just claim that you are Famine, and you are looking for other three horsemen of the Apocalypse...

"For Sale: country home, nice prairie views, tall ceilings..."

There is an old Atlas silo near where I grew up that's been converted to a home...

http://edition.cnn.com/2003/US/Central/08/02/silo.sweet.silo/

Here's a video tour of that site.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoDcnbevOy8

Cue Damnation Alley theme.....

You mean this isn't The Onion?

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/students_first_in_line_program_to

Just because she may be smart doesn't necessarily mean that she has any common sense.