Dead Cant Rant

On Tuesday

It’s cute! It’s cuddly! It’s the Ebola plush doll from GIANTmicrobes!

The Black Death has crippled civilization several times — and Ebola haunts our imaginations. Sleeping Sickness seems like it’s everywhere these days. And while the modern word may have the upper-hand on big game, mother nature wants you to know that she can still eat [...]

Ever wonder what “Professor” Ward “little Eichmanns” Churchill’s fans look like?
Wonder no more…

Several additional members of the Cult of Roosting Chickens donned their sacred caps. They cheered enthusiastically throughout the speech (as did most of the other 300+ audience members).
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At one point, Churchill discussed the circumstances of his original hiring at the University of Colorado, [...]

This is your Mr. Olympia body 30 years after using steroids:

Schwarzenegger’s hint of a spare tyre where lean muscles used to ripple was evident when he took a dip in the Pacific off Maui, one of the Hawaiian islands, where he is on holiday with his wife Maria Shriver and their four children. Earlier, he [...]

I meant to comment on this yesterday, but didn’t have time. In the Express-News, editor Robert Rivard raves like a lunatic (soul-sucking registration required) about a pro-life rally held at UTSA. He had a problem with the large signs depicting aborted babies alongside pictures of lynchings and Holocaust victims:

Students and faculty returning from Spring Break, [...]

Suppose your beloved family pet Fido was stricken by a horrible, debilitating disease; perhaps an unusually severe form of mange that severely eroded her quality of life but was not fatal.
Tears in your eyes, you announce to the media that you have chained precious Fido to the big oak tree in your backyard — the [...]

According to a poll conducted in Germany, 47% of all East Germans questioned agreed with the statement that the West “acquired the east like a colony.”
There is no word yet on Ward Churchill’s involvement.

If you have never read Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Match Girl, you really should. It only takes a few minutes, and it will bring tears to your eyes. The story is about a young girl who is alone on the streets on New Years’ Eve, trying to sell matches for pennies to bring home [...]

In their front-page blurb for this story, CNN plumbs the depths of moral depravity:

Hours after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected pleas to intervene in the case of Terri Schiavo on Thursday, her parents again asked a federal judge in Florida to order the brain-damaged woman’s feeding tube restored. Courts have consistently ruled against her parents, [...]

South Africa has recently passed extremely restrictive gun laws that result in 60% or more of firearms applicants being refused a license. A recent amnesty program has netted 13,000 weapons, most of them non-functional firearms turned in by grandparents. No word on how many criminals have opted to surrender their weapons and give up a [...]