Joss Whedon - Vote Prez for Zombie Apocalypse

Lies!

Your right. Jayboh wasn't funny. The link however was hilarious.

POPCORN!


On topic, I'll vote on Tuesday because it's my civic duty. I'll walk out of the voting booth more disgusted with this country than when I walked in to it but it's been that way for the majority of the last 20 years for me.

Me, but I don't get to vote. If I could it would be against the Zombie Apocalypse.

Not everyone cares about every fact on everything. So yes, some facts are for kids. Just so happens that 95% of the mess in this thread is all opinion. and that's mine

...which was, in fact, part of the OP.

Fox News has Red Eye. Not exactly the same, but it's frequently funny. Is it as entertaining as the Daily Show or Colbert? No, but it's been on the air for 5 years, so it's working for somebody.

Personally I agree with you but if TLH wants to nitpick I'm happy to rub his/her nose in the funny.

People watch Fox News?

Apparently so, given that they're pulling in enough advertising dollars to keep the station running.

/shrug

Yes

That article is talking about viewers. Viewers are not necessarily people. You can train a chimp to watch Fox News.

I wouldn't be surprised to learn there's a scientist somewhere conducting an experiment to see if watching Fox News causes brain tumors in chimps.

Whose talking about confirmation bias. I'm just facetiously poking fun at the types of some incredibly stupid studies that are being done.

For example the US gov has spent

$492,000 to determine whether or not tweets can be trusted

$168,766 to study monkeys as they throw poop at each other

$700,000 to study cow burps for methane emissions

$216,000 to study why politicians make vague statements

$442,340 studying male prostitutes in Vietnam

$3 million to study World of Warcraft

$175,587 to determine if cocaine makes Japanese quail engage in sexually risky behavior

$500 million on a program that will, among other things, seek to solve the problem of 5-year-old children that "can't sit still" in a kindergarten classroom

$30 million on a program that was designed to help Pakistani farmers produce more mangos

$239,100 to study how Americans use the Internet to find love

$400,000 to find out why gay men in Argentina engage in risky sexual behavior when they are drunk

$800,000 in "stimulus funds" to study the impact of a "genital-washing program" on men in South Africa

And these are just some wierd studies funded by the government. Who knows what wierd things are going on in the public sector.

What are republicans if not trained chimps?

Pure science is never a wasted investment. You never know what might turn out from something seemingly frivolous.

When I was in college, Senator Proxmire ridiculed everything scientific, including NASA. One study he mocked was that of screwfly mating habits. Turns out that study has saved the US cattle industry more than $20 billion (with a B) to date. A much-derided study on dog urine led directly to treatments for diabetes, something that no one predicted at the time.

So mock all you like, the people who fund these things are smarter than that and they know the payoffs for such tiny investments could be gargantuan. Sure, they don't all pan out, but that's science, brother! You have to seek in order to find!

Also Washington state.

Plus, dudes can get hitched now, too.

Nah.

We'll see how long that lasts against the Great American Moral Crusade(TM). They've already overturned decisions to legalize stuff conservatives don't like in several states.