You've Got to Be Kidding?

Asteroid Headed Toward Earth a Day Before the November Elections:   In case you haven’t had enough excitement this year, NASA just announced that an asteroid is headed towards Earth, and is expected to arrive one day before the U.S. elections take place in November, though it’s believed the probability of it actually hitting Earth is relatively small.   In fact, even less than the Post Office delivering your mail-in ballot on time. Really?  Now, just what in the hell are we supposed to do about an asteroid heading our way?  Hey, I got an idea!  Wonder if the President could talk Putin into poisoning it?  Either that, or have Trump break out one of his famous sharpies - and simply change the asteroid’s trajectory.  Anyway, not to be negative about 2020 or anything, but now humanity is gonna be forced to figure out how to rid ourselves of one big asteroid and one big asshole - and all in just 24 hours!  And, while I’m certainly no expert on th...

New Study Finds Asteroid Impact and Not Volcanoes Wiped Out Dinosaurs:   USA Today reports that a new study confirms that it was definitively an asteroid impact, and not volcanic eruptions - that killed off most of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. OK, but come on!  That was over 66 million years ago.  Doesn’t USA Today have any news to report that’s a little more recent than that?  Not surprisingly, the White House has reached a rather different conclusion on the issue than the scientists, and are blaming it all on the Obama Administration.    Frankly, I’m not so sure dinosaurs even existed in the first place.  I mean, if they did, why aren’t there any statues of them around, like there are with all the dead confederates?  The way I look at it, the dinosaurs could be just as much the vicious, ugly, and ignorant predators that the folks who support the confederacy were, so it only makes sense they deserve a few statues themselves. ...