I pledge allegence to the flag of the....

I was watching "NatGeo" last night, and they had this incredible piece on Secret CIA experiments (clip above). Usually I get some crazy conspiracy theorist telling me all these things that the CIA did, and how the government caused 911 or assassinated the Kennedys. Now I understand what fuels these peoples madness. If conservatives want to understand why Liberals come across as being unpatriotic they need to watch this show. The most interesting documented CIA experiment was definitely the mind control exploration, and particularly the use of LCD in their studies. This was the height of the cold war, and the CIA was trying to use acid to get covert enemy operatives to spill the beans on national secrets. The scientists tried the drug out on homeless people and African American heroin addicted prisoners.... My country tis of thee sweet land of liberty... They kept the prisoners on increasing doses of acid for up to 72 days rewarding their intake of the drug with a dose of heroin....Im proud to be an American were atleast I know Im free... If that is a controlled experiment yielding peer reviewed results then I'm not going to trust any government study. The government had 44 Universities involved and hundreds of other private hospitals and organizations. The agents and scientists involved in the program eventually got distrustful of each other. So what did they do? Well, they dosed those they were suspicious of, unknowingly of course, then tried to interrogate them to find out if they had revealed any secrets. This of course caused the dosed agents to go insane culminating with agent Frank Olsen's suicide by jumping out of a seventeen story building. (Many, rightfully, believed Olsen was knocked out then pushed out to the window for questioning the ethical implications of the CIA's study). Eventually the program was shut down due to its lack of usefulness in the 1970's. Frank Olsen's family was paid 750,00 dollars and all was good. Right? Come on what else do you want them to do. It WAS in the name of national security and all. If you want to know more about this there is a book called The CIA Doctors. Read It.

File this under... and I was worried about that paper I put off writing.

Every once in a while I hear about things that remind why nerds are cool. Especially astrophysicists nerds. Scientists have coined certain black holes in the Universe the "Death Star's" because they shoots deadly gamma rays billions of light years into the Universe destroying everything in its path. For years the military tried to build a death ray based on xrays or gamma rays for high grade weaponry purposes. Well, I guess NASA beat them to it. See the nerds eventually beat the jocks in the real world. Well, apparently we have a possible death star in our own Milky Way Galaxy, and there is a possibility if this death star comes to fruition, its deadly gamma rays are headed right toward earth...awesome! Scientists have found a rotating binary star system in the Sagittarius constellation. A rotating binary star system for all you idiots out there are two stars revolving around each other...duh. One of the stars, Wolf-Rayet, is a highly unstable star thought to be the in the final stage of stellar evolution that precedes a cataclysmic supernova explosion.  If this occurs the rays could strip away the ozone layer causing mass extinction on earth. The star is a mere 8,000 light years away. Scientists believe that gamma rays from 6,500 light years away caused a 60% earth extinction and massive climate change 443 million years ago. So we're pretty much fucked if this star explodes. If you have a birth day between November 23 and December 21 your out of luck. Just think what you will have to go through if you are a Sagittarius and this happens in your lifetime. Your in for it. I could just imagine the horoscopes in the weeks leading up to the explosion.  Your astrological sign is pretty much the barrel of a gun pointed at earth, and you may be responsible for mass extinction. ouch.

Below is a picture of the death star:

The return of the Human Giant

Pitchfork has a pretty good interview with the Human Giant crew. I am eagerly anticipating their return tomorrow night on MTV. There is also some pretty funny stuff over on the Human Giant production blog. With the addition of Will Arnett, Human Giant should be a reason to check MTV on the weekend for marathons. Although, the Hills is coming back, so I may have to travel through  a minefield of America's Next Top Model, The Hills, and Thats Amore to catch an episode of Human Giant. Heres the Will Arnett sex tape bit:

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Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails headlining Lallapalooza- Rollingstone

This was kind of funny (Project Runway Spoof) - SNL NBC

Ashton stole Pop Fiction from Ann Nicole Smith.. wait is this a prank from the show?PerezHilton

Heath Ledger forgot to leave his wife and children anything...woops! Defamer

Finally MSNBC cancels Tucker Carlson's show.  HuffingtonPost

Bush sings a song...awwwww! Gawker

Gays worst than terrorists according to Oklahomo (ha ha) lawmaker. CNN

Super rare White Killer Whale spotted in Alaskan waters... AP

Poor Eliot Spitzer... You know Wall Street wouldn't let you go free.

Surprise, Surprise a politician went and saw a prostitute. The shock is too much. Why aren't there grief counselors available. Eliot Spitzer the governor of New York and the "Sheriff of Wallstreet," was caught on a government wiretap ordering a whore. This is a guy who devoted his life to fighting white collar corruption. He did what politicians are supposed to do, yet his legacy may be being caught with a prostitute. I find it all strange personally. Fox News reported this first, and Wall Street has a reason to get back at Spitzer. I smell set up!!! Fox News is acting like this is such a big deal. Why with conservatives, is an affair or cheating tantamount to defrauding investors out of millions or smoking crack (yes fox made the comparison). Someone cheated on their wife. WOW, maybe its  a story if he is a family values guy, but he wasn't. He was big on ethics,  so "Client number 9" will forever be known as a Hypocrite. Hopefully this will blow over so it stops trashing up news websites. This is a shame. Why Eliot Why? You were the one to make us less cynical. You showed such promise. 

Ashton shows us how the media works...I don't get it.

Ashton Kutcher's new brain child  "Pop Fiction" debuted last night on E! (watch it here) You know, the one I talked about earlier.  Defamer has the scoop as well. It was as stupid as I thought it would be. I am not going to go into why this show makes absolutely no sense, but I will say these celebrities just don't get it. We don't care if the rumors are true or not. We really don't care. You are just entertainment. Your professional lifes and personal lifes are the jokes. Your lives are just something to do. We read the media when we are bored at work. It doesn't concern us how easy it is to make up a lie. All that concerns us is whether our favorite blog will be updated at 2:30 P.M. when work is really wearing thin. Regardless, I turned it off after Avril reared her ugly head and switched to the Revenge of The Nerds on HBO. I turned it on just in time to catch the best part of the movie. I can't post the movie clip, but you can watch the scene at the link. I'll give you a hint. We've Got Bush!!!

You mean we can't call her fat Lisa Marie?

Lisa Marie took to her blog to answer stories like this. She ripped apart the press saying they were acting like vultures when they insinuated that she was heading toward the same inevitable fate as her father. Newspapers were implying that this was the beginning of an unavoidable slow downward spiral written years before she was born. To the disappointment of all, Lisa Marie is not suffering from depression and drugs, rather she is pregnant. BOOOOOOOO!! Presley said that she was forced "by gun" to reveal her pregnancy because the press were saying such degrading things. I can't help but crack up at the press. You know they jumped the shark on this one. They knew Presley was pregnant, but the comparison to her father was too good to pass up. Deep down they were hoping so bad that Lisa Marie was turning out just like her father, that they ran with the story before any confirmation of the pregnancy could destroy the negative angle. I think this sucks!! Lisa Marie is so boring. She is a Scientologist and isn't even as interesting as her botoxed old lady mom (who, by the way, gave the performance of her life in The Naked Gun movies). She can't make a good album, and she had to marry Michael Jackson and Nicholas Cage just to get some press.  This was her chance. She should have rolled with it. I was so looking forward to hearing about Lisa Marie being found naked, passed out on the toilet, with a plate of half eaten peanut butter and banana sandwiches in her lap.