Daily Blend: Tuesday, April 13, 2010

I’m seriously about to have an Internet-connection-failure-induced nervous breakdown. If only smashing my router against the wall would accomplish anything to help it. But then, I’d happily do it even if it didn’t help, of course.

• If life aviation were this easy, you wouldn’t need MasterCard years of intense training.

• Worth reading: Phil Plait (Bad Astronomy) bemoans the stalemate into which NASA has fallen, past glory, and whatever hope there is for the future. Also, fuck the politicization of science.

• Spanking: good for the bedroom, bad for child-rearing. (But then, you already knew that.)

• Dinner with the greats. Much better than that other bunch of useless codgers.
  (via Friendly Atheist)

• Vatican: “Coming clean about our massive systematic covering-up of clerical child sex abuse cases? Bad idea. Forgiving an old rock band for a random, trivial passing comment – a group from whom we should be asking for forgiveness for the shit we put them through over such a trivial issue? Okay, let’s go with that instead.” Nice to know they’ve got their priorities straight.

As always, if you have any story suggestions, feel free to send them in.