Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Amazing and stupid facts for you to peruse

Amazing facts about the human body.

Explaining what happened (and didn't happen) to the Senate filibuster.

Word for the day:  Defenestration.

Asking Dick Cheney about gun control is moronic... and gun owners heckle a father of one of the dead of Sandy Hook school.   Everyone should have a gun... especially these people.  And GPS makes kids end up getting shot in a man's driveway.  Booman addresses the gun violence problem.

And speaking of moronic, an Alabama GOP Congressman Proposes Amendment That Would Effectively Kill The United States Government and Arkansas introduces a “heartbeat bill” that would jail doctors for performing abortions after 6 weeks and (Fox News link, sorry) Mississippi bill would nullify federal laws

Homemade 'death ray'.

Corporations are so slow in taking toxic chemicals out of our food....

4 comments:

Steve Bates said...

I wonder if Mozart wrote a "'Defenestration of Prague' Symphony" ...

ellroon said...

You know you're making me google this..

Steve Bates said...

It's easy, ellroon.

The "defenestration of Prague" was either of two events (in 1419 or 1618), the second of which, the throwing of diplomats out a window to their deaths, precipitated the 30 Years' War. (wiki.)

Mozart's "Prague" symphony was usually counted as his #38; he wrote only forty-odd by any count, so the Prague Symphony is a late and great one. It was premiered in 1786 in... you guessed it...

ellroon said...

Thanks. Mozart did a lot of things in Prague..:P