Hey fellow members, here is the latest bitingly satirical piece by AntiChrist (I'm going to have to add a gallery to The Planet to hang all these masterpieces!), created in response to The House's vote against women's right to...
Putting the day's frustration behind me, I am kicking off a Friday night trivia game thread which I hope you'll all feel free to join in and give both questions and answers. Here's the rule I've come up with...
One of the scientific discoveries that change our perception of reality the most in the twentieth century was quantum mechanics. Einstein's theory of special relativity was the first theory of science that was not intuitive but it was...
Today, we went out to eat at our favourite Mexican restaurant and watch a few innings of the Yankees winning the World Series. For a little while there was at the bar a rather loud person, someone who...
Today's another Election Day in America and when I woke up, I realized I didn't know what to think about it . So I rushed to the TV, turned it on and flipped to one of the cable news...
Personally, I was delighted to see the White House fighting back against the network that bills itself as a "News" network, and is most clearly not even close.
In Frank Rich's column today, he addressed the ongoing "feud":
Only in the...
Being that it is Halloween, I thought it might be fun if we all shared scary tales about things that go bump in the night.
I have two such tales, and they are true as far as I can attest,...
It's HuffNo Friday and time to let down at The Planet after a long week. There's KQ's thread for laughs and music an Afghanistan thread for discussions of substance and this thread to unload about, satirize and skewer The...
HuffNo FRIDAY!!!
I know it's early to start the party but I'm just too psyched about HuffNo so I can't wait to get things going. Now someone else can start a serious thread for HuffNo Friday if they want but...
The Huffington Post has sparked a national blatherfest with a series of posts by self-help guru Marcus Buckingham, which Arianna, in her trademark breathless fashion, blurbs as “the sad, shocking truth about how women are feeling.”
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