June 18, 2008
Extra, Extra
Nothing calms down an escaped inmate like Long Island iced teas. [Trib]
Argonne National Laboratory's supercomputer is the third fastest in the world. A new machine at Los Alamos took top honors because it can perform "more than 1,000 trillion calculations per second," none of which happen to be telling Crain's that's called a quadrillion, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's supercomputer came in second. We still love you, "Blue Gene." [Crain's]
Bacon floss! Gross, yet intriguing. Thanks, Jasmine!
Phase two of the CPD's crosswalk sting has nabbed 78 drivers for failure to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk. [S-T]
Some University of Chicago professors object to the name of the school's planned Milton Friedman Institute because they say it will "reinforce among the public a perception that the university's faculty lacks intellectual and ideological diversity." [Trib]
"Search for girls who touched mink continues." [Lake County News-Sun]
Don't mail someone 16 pounds of marijuana. [WBBM]
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They use the notation "1,000 trillion" because quadrillion isn't a pretty number.
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I'm telling you, Margaret, bacon floss is the future! And it will look nice in my medicine cabinet next to my bacon bandages.
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Early in the war, Bush was getting briefed by Rumsfeld. "Yesterday, Mr. President, three Brazilian soldiers were killed."
The President dropped his head, mortified, and even wept.
Rumsfeld was puzzled. "Mr. President, I've never seen you so moved."
"Of course I'm moved," said the President. "But tell me. Just how much is a brazillion?"
(Anyway, that 1,000 trillion quote made me think of that joke...and I am a Republican, by the way)
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"reinforce among the public a perception that the university's faculty lacks intellectual and ideological diversity"
Of course, the faculty doesn't state what intellectual and ideological diversity they are looking for; something tells me they believe 'diversity' means 'people who share my ideas'.
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The Crosswalk Sting is my favorite new thing in the land. I've almost died 3 times in the past 24 hours.
It's also my new band name.
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They say that the Milton Friedman Institute will "....reinforce among the public a perception that the university's faculty lacks intellectual and ideological diversity..."
Those professors are being unintentionally hilarious with that statement.
Here you have an ocean of liberals. In the middle, you have an island of study named after Milton Friedman, a pioneer of sensible and well-proven economic thought. The liberals don't want the island. They want it to be all ocean. That's their idea of "..diversity."
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"well-proven economic thought"
Ward your first joke was pretty good but I don't think you realize that you made two.
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liberals cannot accept a free exchange of ideas just agree with us, navin I like the new pic.
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Yes, Friedman, whose disciples gave us as much, if not more, debt that those New Deal and Great Society libs.