On the Nature of Things | Forum

Enki wrote:I thought that was the whole Belgian army.

I thought so at first, but the group is too large and doesn't have enough men in drag. No wooden shoes, either, so that rules out the Dutch.

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte -- Georges Seurat, 1884

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres -- La Grande Odalisque

He will be missed, especially now that his former rival Václav Klaus is the Czech President.

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/.a/6a0133f2dd8001970b01543889f7c0970c-pi Diferent numbers in Iowa There's an anybody-but-Romney contingent, but they still haven't gotten their acts together. There's probably also an anybody-but-Paul contingent, due to his defense and foreign policy views, which ...

Captain Euro http://s12.postimage.org/s2k0z5ct9/group.gif Gaaaaay. Totally. It looks like Captain Euro's foes are a gay pirate, a Russian prostitute, Colonel Sanders's gay nephew, a tin man from space, a leprechaun and a black pimp. He's going to need a lot more help than a Swedish stewardess and a...

Obama stays in, President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen is out, Green Bay plays the Patriots in the Super Bowl.

By end of 2012, Prime Minister of Egypt will be from party with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. Amr Moussa will be President.

Isn't it true that, on average, the 1980s were hotter than the 1970s, the 1990s were hotter than the 1980s and the 2000s were hotter than the 1990s? There may be year by year (el Niño , etc.) or even multi-year fluctuations (Mt. Pinatubo, etc.), but decade by decade on the Earth as a whole, there's ...

hat tip Colonel Sun/Typhoon