State the Obvious.

Ok, I feel a teeny bit guilty for posting Cruel Wife’s tipoff on the Fukushima Squid, but really I thought the title of the website would be a big clue: Lightly Braised Turnip.

That is way up there for a name of anything. It is almost as good as “Goat Cheese Pizza” for a band name. Or lyrics like “camel holocaust”.

I even provided a second major hint, the article that said that Republicans would stop courting Latinos (which will never happen because they are a bunch of simps). ALSO from the LBT.

But mostly I feel bad that MyFoxLA had to tell people that “More and More Online Stories are a Hoax”. Really?
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This sort of thing leaves geeks mentally… Erect. Cruel Wife calls it mental masturbation.

Me, I think mental gymnastics about a Cubical Planet are fascinating.

Imagine a planet of cuboid shape, rotating about a plane through two vertices, and what a space-shot trajectory would look like. Never mind stability and reality of such a body, just have fun.

I have seen this sort of “what if” question peeve people off, but I see an inverse relationship between intelligence and vehemence more often than not as well. But, if you are intelligent and vehement (an outlier) just go away, ok?

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This is the best news in years, if you are a parasite/pathogen or Pepto Bismol.

We’ve had nukable burritos in vending machines for decades – what was wrong with GutBombs(tm)?

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