Radical Islam bears precisely the same relationship to Islam as the KKK does to Christianity.

The word "evolution" appears twelve times in the English translation of "Mein Kampf," always in the sense of historical or cultural evolution, never in the biological sense. "Darwin" never occurs once. The German word is "Entwicklung," which occurs many more times but is usually translated as "development."

Everything is just a passing phase in the Universe.

Other studies have shown that lots of television viewing correlates with a fearful outlook and a tendency to view the world as more dangerous than it actually is.

No, crank as in someone whose ideas are worthless. Unfashionable as it is in some circles, some ideas are just wrong. Velikovsky was fractally wrong in that any small piece of his theories was as wrong as the whole thing.

Physically fit people (and paleo-Indians would certainly have been fit) could go to that altitude to quarry stone and return to lower elevations without much hardship. It's only 300 feet higher than Mount Whitney and 600 feet above Pikes Peak.

Highwayman — YEAH!

The kings, of course, are 100%. Except that one time I tried teaching my little sister to play chess. I checked her and said she had to move her king.

Except that the pyramids are built of individual stones, not a solid mass.

It's a popular myth that the Pyramids pointed toward the pole star at the time they were built. In reality, the pole star is any star close to the earth's rotation axis. Any pyramid feature aligned with the pole star must be aligned with the earth's axis and will always be aligned with the pole star, forever.…

You do know the web site was created by a PRIVATE contractor, right?

I saw the couch drop on another site, advertised as a redneck way to get a sofa down from the third floor. So I anticipated an amusing disaster but was astonished to see it work perfectly!

You have cats that make you feel safe from rodents? Ours were the most incompetent mousers ever. One night I heard a snap followed by growling. I went out and our cat was shaking a dead mouse that had been caught in a trap. O Mighty Hunter.

And if your kid flat out refuses to stay in his room, what's plan B? Can't lock the door, the cops will arrest you for child endangerment.

They compressed all the world's books onto a nanochip. Then someone dropped it on a carpet.

The simplest system has few moving parts, a permanently-on display, and is entirely organic. I call it the Bio-Organic Organizer of Knowledge, or B.O.O.K. for short. Clyde Crashcup lives!

He's not saying things would be hunky-dory, but that there would be some adjustment. Tacoma would replace Seattle, Oakland or San Jose would fill the niche of San Francisco, Providence would take over for Boston, and so on.

EMP strikes me as a case of them that talk don't know and them that know don't talk. The complete absence of inverse-square law effects in discussions of EMP leaves me dubious.

If you had something with treads that could climb rubble. Imagine the aftermath of 9/11, covering the full width of Manhattan and 60 blocks N-S.

#11. I read a long time ago that there was a drug that virtually shut down sperm production. Problem: it made you violently sick if you drank alcohol. That's an obvious problem for some people, but not all. Shouldn't men at least have that option available? Alas, I have not been able to relocate the reference.