Should say, "Fugly glasses look like they are made out of coat hangers and old office supplies." Seriously these things are about the ugliest pieces of crap I've ever seen anyone propose that you put on your face - and I lived through the 1970s and 1980s when eyewear looked like the optometrist was trying to make you…

I think this "article" (snort) is the very definition of an ad-absurdum argument. It ignores all the positives of modern meat processing, and exaggerates every negative to such a ridiculous degree that it belongs on the same level of propoganda-based pontification as Global Warming and any political ad you've ever…

Seconded. Turn that map 100% blue and that will be enough climate change. As long as the Mythbusters move to another city then I can't think of anything anyone would miss.

Here is the internal view of the only possible space this structure has for bedrooms...

'Several bedrooms'... Where? There is barely enough room in the back past the kitchen area for one very small bedroom and one bathroom. And the shed/closet thing is butted on the OUTSIDE of the structure and is way too small to be a bedroom/bathroom. It's either some sort of storage shed, or its holding the power…

This isn't a house. This is just a long ROOM with a lot of windows. There doesn't seem to be a bedroom or a bathroom. That shed/closet thing in the back must be where the converter, inverter, and all the batteries are stored. Where does he sleep, urinate, deficate, and store all his clothes and stuff?

Seems more like it is some of you guys that have the wadded up panties. All I did was list how this was illogical and pointless. I don't hold Obama's gaffes against him any more than I held Bush's against him. Gaffes happen. That's why seeing a whole article on Gizmodo about a comparatively unfunny, simple typo…

Every time Obama screws up about a million hipster doofuses explode like fungi out of the ground and try to show how it isn't REALLY an Obama screw up, but simply that people "didn't understand him properly". Whatever. He screwed up. It wasn't sloppy. It wasn't shorthand. It was a mistake. Just swallow your…

Same reason all the Trog-Lib-Dytes are all butthurt over every Obama gaffe. Of course if a "neocon" (pht) brings up something, you "dont' see how this is relevant". However, when a neolib brings up a conservative mistake then other neolibs will go to great lengths to say how "important" it is. Double standards and…

Then you should be scared by Obama, or any other human being that comes down the pike. Obama is a gaffe machine. Biden is like the living, breathing ebodiment of the God Of All Gaffes. And yet they're running the country. If this really something that you think is an issue important enough to decide how you vote,…

1. I very much doubt that Mitt Romney personally programmed and released this app. The screw-up is the fault of some careless editor and/or programmer who had a brainfart.

No - a 42 ounce drink is not the norm when you go to any restaurant in the United States. Typically a fast food restaurant will sell what we call a 'combo' which includes a sandwish, french fries, and a drink. When you order a combo, the cashier will usually ask "What size would you like?" At that point you request…

Oh yes. I noticed. This DISinfographic violates every rule any professional analyst has ever learned about proper, unbiased graph design. This graphic isn't just 'bad'. It is deliberately and grossly deceptive, and given the nature of the article I would have to say that it was done on purpose. Shame on the CDC…

You earn the tin-foil hat by making goofy statements like "it is impossible to be healthy eating food from a grocery store". That is nonsense. Anyone can be perfectly healthy and have the proper weight while eating grocery store food. I'm 43 years old and I am 6'1" and 169 pounds. I'm healthy as a horse, have…

Because there are a lot of stupid conspiracy theorists out there that for some asinine reason think "processsed" = "bad for you". That's absolute ridiculousness, as a lot of the processed food is about a BILLION times 'better' for you than anything you eat in nature. It comes from Upton Sinclair's book "The Jungle"…

Thier portions are large because movie theatres do not make money from ticket sales - they make it from concessions, and the concessions are priced accordingly. Now - if you walked into a movie theatre and bought a "small" popcorn at a price of $4.75, exactly how much popcorn would you expect to be in it knowing that…

Well, the CDC is concerned about things like Diabetes and Cancer which are LINKED to obesity, but obesity is not a disease. It is not unusual for the CDC to make recommendations about causal factors related to diseases. IE ... I would not be surprised by the CDC making recommendations about mosquito repellants as a…

I didn't say YOU said the 50s were a magical time. That's what the CDC is saying. :) Relax. But there WERE fat people back then - and it was a LOT of them. Not as many (percentagewise) as today perhaps, but they existed. Fatties aren't something that only happened in the year 2000. They've been around a long…

Yes, the CDC implying that people are fat in 2012 because of the size of restaurant portions is ridiculous - especially when implying that the 1950s were somehow some sort of magical time in history when everyone ate healthily and no one was ever fat. Bull. People ate crap in the 50s too, and there were fatties all…

Yeah, I'm a statistician by profession and this CDC "infographic" violates about every single ethical and professional rule for TLG (tables, legends, graphs) in the book. It is visually deceptive (check out the scale of the drinks!). It doesn't cite any data whatsoever. It is clearly agenda driven. It is just a…