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Historic Blockbuster Store Offers Glimpse Of How Movies Were Rented In The Past

I get NASA press releases in my email. I like to see the latest NASA news before the wire services have done their copy-paste and fed the stories out to their consumers. But sometimes the headlines that the publicity people come up with make me want to scream. Case in point is the latest from JPL: Scientists Hold Seance for Supernova

According to Dictionary.com, a séance is:

1. a meeting in which a spiritualist attempts to communicate with the spirits of the dead.
2. a session or sitting, as of a class or organization.

Definition 1 can safely be translated as “deluded bullshit,” which I’m reasonably sure the author meant. That’s not even close to the painstaking research going on. Note to the JPL publicists: save your wordplay for your creative writing classes and keep the headlines informative, not stupid.

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Blogging will resume shortly.  I spent the week entertaining the parents and just dropped them off at the airport.

Nation’s Slicked-Back-Hair Men Rally Against Negative Hollywood Portrayal

LOS ANGELES—Even though men with this hairstyle comprise just 3 percent of the US populace, activists argue, they make up 80 percent of TV villains and assholes.

Boy band creator sentenced to 25 years in prison

Lou Pearlman, the man who created the Backstreet Boys and ‘N Sync, was sentenced Wednesday to 25 years in federal prison

Surprisingly, it wasn’t because he created the Backstreet Boys and ‘N Sync. I’d have sent him to prison for those crimes against humanity.