No, Your Spaghetti Doesn’t Have to Be al Dente: 5 Pasta Myths, Debunked In my earlier article, I cooked eight batches of spaghetti at varying salt levels, ranging from none to Pacific Ocean to Mediterranean Sea (3 to 4 percent, or about half a cup of salt per gallon.) It ... 04/19/2024 - 10:01 pm | View Link
Multiple Moon Myths! Another full moon is upon us this week, whitewashing the Butler night sky and making it challenging for stargazers. We’re also getting into the time of year when the full moon makes a higher arc ... 04/19/2024 - 5:24 pm | View Link
WATCH: Columbine Author on Myths, Lessons, and Warning Signs of Violence Dave Cullen is a journalist and author who has been covering school shootings in America for two decades, starting with the mass shooting at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., in 1999, and ... 04/19/2024 - 7:51 am | View Link
Let's talk about these popular headphone myths Tech myths are extremely pervasive. Half of the things we believe in are stuff we’ve seen people around us believe in. Confirmation bias leads to us blindly following without ever questioning. This ... 04/19/2024 - 4:57 am | View Link
Myths and facts: Debunking right-wing lies and misinformation about Trump’s Manhattan criminal trial On April 15, former President Donald Trump walked into a Manhattan courtroom for the first day of his trial for charges of falsifying business records in order to conceal hush money payments to adult ... 04/19/2024 - 3:37 am | View Link
Mythology Myths tell the stories of ancestors and the origin of humans and the world, the gods, supernatural beings (satyrs, nymphs, mermaids) and heroes with super-human, usually god-given, powers (as in the case of the Greek myth of Heracles or Perseus). 04/18/2024 - 9:29 pm | View Website
Greek Mythology: Gods, Goddesses & Legends | HISTORY Getty Images. Ancient Greek mythology is a vast group of legends about gods and goddesses, heroes and monsters, warriors and fools, that were an important part of everyday life in the ancient... 04/18/2024 - 9:22 pm | View Website
Mythopedia – Encyclopedia of Mythology Mythopedia is the ultimate online resource for exploring ancient mythology; from the Greeks and Romans, to Celtic, Norse, Egyptian and more. 04/18/2024 - 8:00 am | View Website
Myth Myth is a genre of folklore or theology consisting primarily of narratives that play a fundamental role in a society, such as foundational tales or origin myths. For folklorists, historians, philosophers or theologians this is very different from the use of "myth" simply indicating that something is not true. 04/18/2024 - 6:20 am | View Website
Myth Myth - Origin, Ritual, Belief | Britannica. Contents. Home Philosophy & Religion Ancient Religions & Mythology. Functions of myth and mythology. Explanation. The most obvious function of myths is the explanation of facts, whether natural or cultural. 04/18/2024 - 3:06 am | View Website
Thursday was a HUGE day in court for Donald Trump. TWO courts, actually. The Supreme Court in DC heard Donald Trumps "TOTAL IMMUNITY FOR LIFE" case and the New York Election Interference (Hush Money/Stormy Daniels) case continued with David Pecker on the stand for day 3.
First, the Supreme Court.
Some observations:
I can say with reasonable confidence that if you’re arguing a case in the Supreme Court of the United States and Justices Alito and Sotomayor are tag-teaming you, you are going to lose.
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) April 25, 2024
These are some of the most extreme, authoritarian arguments presented to the Supreme Court in the modern era.
Lousiana's Governor with what I would also call a self-own here, by defending the Republican bill with a colorful comparison. "I’ll give you a great example, when you go to a restaurant, do you go over there and watch the cook make everything he serves you? No, you just walk into a restaurant, those restaurants you that you think serve a great meal and you order that great meal.
Meet Mike Davis of The Article III Project, a right-wing outfit that backs Mr. Trump’s judicial nominees. Brett Kavanaugh described Davis as a "warrior" on his behalf. Yeah.
Now Davis has nothing to do but go on Bannon and make mouth noises regarding fantasies about prosecuting Barack Obama for murder.
Video and transcript via Media Matters:
MIKE DAVIS (ARTICLE III PROJECT): If the Supreme Court does not rule the right way and protects the presidency and therefore our country, that means the Trump 47 Justice Department can indict President Obama for capital murder, along with now-Judge David Barron on the First Circuit Court of Appeals, who was his legal advisor at the time, for their drone strike — extrajudicial drone strike — on two American citizens, including a minor.
During Thursday's Supreme Court hearing, Trump lawyer John Sauer was made to look foolish trying to defend his claim that the president would get immunity even if he assassinates his political rival.
Justice Sotomayor was not amused.
Sotomayor: Your answer below, I'm going to give you a chance to say if you stay by it – if the president decides that his rival is a corrupt person and he orders the military or orders someone to assassinate him, is that within his official acts for which he can get immunity?
Sauer: It would depend on the hypothetical, but we can see that could well be an official act.
Sotomayor: It could.
The University of Southern California canceled its main stage graduation ceremony Thursday under new safety measures being taken as the campus is roiled by protests stemming from the Israel-Hamas war.
The university announced the move Thursday, the day after more than 90 protesters were arrested on campus. Colleges around the country have called in police to break up demonstrations, resulting in ugly scuffles and dozens of arrests.
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The USC ceremony was scheduled for May 10.