The Voices in my Head

Make them go away.

It’s election time again, and Virginia has a gubernatorial election, so I get to go elect a guber. The mudslinging TV ads have been rampant (I hope the irony of a campaign spot accusing the other candidate of negative-campaigning was not lost on too many in my viewing area), but it also mean incessant phone calls from autodialers and recorded messages. I’ll only have to make it through a few more hours this afternoon/evening until the polls close and they will all STFU until the next big election.

Drilling for Whisky

Ernest Shackleton’s whisky aged, well chilled in Antarctica

A bid will be made to drill through Antarctica’s ice to reach a lost cache of Scotch whisky that has been on rocks for a century – since it was delivered to polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton.

Drillers will try to reach two crates of Mackinlay and Co. whisky that were shipped to the Antarctic by Shackleton as part of his unsuccessful 1907-1909 expedition.

Would a successful expedition have had more or less whisky?

In That Case, It's All Good

Notorious ‘man-eating’ lions of Tsavo likely ate about 35 people — not 135, scientists say

Sounds like they should have gotten off with a warning. For the first fifty, file it under “cats will be cats.”

I love the wording here:

Two world renowned man-eating Tsavo lions are seen stuffed and on display at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History Monday

Stuffed? Not even room for a wafer-thin mint?