What Would Einstein Say?

Finally, What Einstein Really Thought About God

"The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish."—1954 Einstein letter made public in London on May 13, 2008.

Obama's 57 States!

As further testament to the questionable value of a Harvard Law School education, we give you Barack Obama:

Something To Think About

The Wacko Left And Wacko Mysticism

Ah, like two kindred bedfellows, radical political leftists and mindless mystical morons openly converged in a Code Pink "anti-war" protest. There they were, calling on witchcraft to help shut down an Army recruiting center. Admit it, you always suspected that the loopy left was cosmologically in league with the "UFO and Past Lives" crowd (hell, look no further than Shirley McClaine) But now we have proof! Read it and weep (or laugh).

Phoenix Stuns

UFO-Nuts around the world were red-faced again as the perpetrator of the "Phoenix Lights" hoax fessed up. Boy, is it easy to fool the gullible Dumb Belt crowd. All it took was fishing line, helium balloons and some road flares.

Alert Orson Welles! The invasion is not imminent!

In Case You Were Wondering

Half (Right) Nelson

Kudos to U.S. Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) who has proposed a sweeping overhaul of the primary and general election process for president. The senator proposes to replace the current crap primary system with a system of rotating regional elections. This plan would give no permanent "order" advantage to any one state or region--every four years, another region would go first. Brilliant. Good idea.

Unfortunately, the senator also argues for abolishing the Electoral College and going to a direct popular election of the president. This, he correctly argues, would avoid the scenario of a candidate getting more popular votes and losing the presidency—as has happened four times in our history (most recently in 2000). Not so brilliant. Bad idea. No biscuit, Senator.

Here's why. While direct popular election sounds like a good idea, it gives way too much weight to what the Founding Fathers would have lovingly called "The Mob" (no, nothing to do with Tony Soprano). The Electoral College was instituted to protect smaller states from the over-dominance of the larger states—due to their bigger populations. So, in a direct popular plan, California, by virtue of its far greater numbers would blow away Rhode Island in overall influence on the election.

The better solution is for the Electoral College to adopt the plan that works so miserably for the Democratic nomination process, but would be perfect for a national election—proportional representation. That is, if Senator Obama (who will be the Democratic Party nominee, let's face it) gets 60% of the popular vote in Maryland, he would get 60% of the state's Electoral votes (6 out of 10). McCain, conversely, would get the remaining four. This is a far better and fairer way of apportioning electoral votes than the current system, which, in this hypothetical example, would award all 10 of Maryland's votes to Obama.

So, Senator Nelson, you were half-right. Which, frankly, is better than about 99 other senators.