Jack’s Old & Busted Blog

Joe Patrick is a nice guy and rides a Royal Enfield Bullet. Check out his CD.

WBIR.COM: “A retired veteran and candidate for Oklahoma State School Superintendent says he wants to make schools safer by creating bulletproof textbooks.”

Wheat has some personal insight into the Limbaugh/Michael J. Fox debacle:

As one of my aunts died of complications from Parkinsons, I feel justified it nominating him jackass of the year. There never was a good reason to take such a hateful shill seriously. But anyone who would do so after this is simply, and quite objectively, a fool.

And, if you live in NWA, you can contact the jackass’ local affiliate KFAY 1030 here to complain.

“YETI@Home is a scientific experiment that harnesses the power of hundreds of thousands of Internet-connected computers in the search for giant ape-like creatures (YETI) . . .
. . . Coming Soon! Download Version 1.00 of YETI@Home for: Windows, BeOs, OS2, Linux, Amiga Workbench, Atari ST, Altair, TRS-80, Vectrex, Babbage’s Difference Engine, Palm Pilot, Sega Genesis and Timex Indiglo (sorry, not available for Macintosh).”

Maybe it just seems longer . . .

New York Magazine: In lab studies going back to the thirties, mice on severely limited diets have consistently lived as much as 50 percent longer than the oldest of their well-fed peers—the rodent equivalent of a human life stretched past the age of 160.

I distinctly remember being taught in the ’70s that the earth was freezing. With energy costs forcing people to turn their thermostats down in the winter, it seemed plausible.

MSNBC.com: In April, 1975, in an issue mostly taken up with stories about the collapse of the American-backed government of South Vietnam, NEWSWEEK published a small back-page article about a very different kind of disaster.

How long before teachers are enclosed in a bullet-proof glass booth or only appear on a video screen?

NWAnews.com: [The] attorney for the Arkansas School Boards Association said there are several legal and financial issues that might push administrators to tell teachers to stay out of fights.