Comments on: Pointless Easterbrook-baiting

By: Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Fun fact

Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Fun fact — Mon, 18 May 2009 22:02:47 +0000

[...] Ezra Klein, who just began working for the Washington Post, is 55 years younger than David Broder. That means he’ll be David Broder’s current age in 2064, assuming that we aren’t destroyed in a giant interstellar war before then. [...]

By: noen

noen — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 20:27:50 +0000

“[Easterbrook] now thinks that huge sums of federal money should go towards protecting us from KILLER ASTEROIDS.”

Um… yeah, he’s right. Mainly because there is one headed towards us right now. It’s called Apophis

“Apophis is a near-Earth asteroid that caused a brief period of concern in December 2004 because initial observations indicated a significant probability (up to 2.7%) that it would strike the Earth in 2029. Additional observations provided improved predictions that eliminated the possibility of an impact on Earth or the Moon in 2029. However there remained a possibility that during the 2029 close encounter with Earth, Apophis would pass through a gravitational keyhole, a precise region in space no more than about 600 meters across, that would set up a future impact on April 13, 2036.”

So right now Apophis is headed in our direction and will arrive in 2029. The odds are low, 1 in 12.3 million, that it will strike the Earth. I don’t like those odds however. The odds of winning the powerball is 1 in 146,107,962 and someone usually manages to win that lotto.

It seems prudent to me to have some kind of defense against asteroids because: 1) We can actually detect them, and 2) It’s possible to do something once the threat is identified. We are helpless against gamma ray bursters and relativistic ice cream.

But on the whole, yeah, Easterbrook does look like a bit of a loon.

By: secondharmonic

secondharmonic — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 21:45:58 +0000

Wait, ol’ Gregg has to give us his high dudgeon on THIS BREAKING STORY:
AP Exclusive: Pentagon to recruit aliens on visas

STOP THE PRESSES!
I DO NOT WANT ALIENS TO BE IN THE MILITARY!!!

By: Dr. Comclop

Dr. Comclop — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:45:01 +0000

Here at the camp, our team of researchers has been working on designs for suits that will reclaim all of our bodies water into catchpockets connected with tubes from which we can drink. After worldwide destruction by liberal fascism, asteroids, and the cold fury of the Hussein antichrist, we’ll emerge wearing our suits, driving our gleaming alloy air cars, two lanes wide. But we need cash. We’ll put Easterbrook on our funding list.

By: Bill Arnold

Bill Arnold — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:03:47 +0000

Since when have we been broadcasting detailed instructions for making vanilla ice cream? At a minimum, one would need to send the recipe, plus detailed instructions for making (a) female cows (b) vanilla orchids (c) sugar and optionally (d) female chickens. Sucrose is easy.

By: zenster666

zenster666 — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:36:20 +0000

So gamma rays originate in old greg’s mangina? Pass the funk pleeze.

By: secondharmonic

secondharmonic — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:38:33 +0000

Well my favorite football team just got boofooed to the bone. Yup Pat and Kevin Williams may have taken an over the counter drug which may have contained a no no. Not, mind you, a steroid, nor any other enhancer. A fucking diuretic! Which actually are more efficacious than beta blockers or statins at preventing heart attacks — but what the hell; because someone somewhere in the league office saw that using said diuretic may mask the use of steroids. OK, but are there any steroid residues in their tissues anyway? C’mon, this is just good GC/MS workup, it isn’t quaternion quantum field theory!

Fuck.

And don’t tell me that scrawny little CB who weighed 210 at UNM and now weighs 260 lbs and plays middle linebacker just got there by eating right and pumping iron.
You know who I mean.

By: Uli Kunkel

Uli Kunkel — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:35:02 +0000

W likes pretzels and I like potato chips, that’s why I don’t like him.

Pretzel-loving WPE!!!

By: KILLER ASTEROID

KILLER ASTEROID — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:02:35 +0000

@40:

Search for me all you like, tiny meat specks. YOU CAN’T FUCKING STOP ME.

By: Me

Me — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:00:55 +0000

Again, this is a guy who

wrote some unflattering shit about your favorite football team, which pretty much explains why you don’t like him.