Fatal Flaw

-- This is obviously not a real pirate ship -- real pirate ships are not bought; they are stolen.

-- I usually don't care to link Michelle Malkin, who's a little too ready to fight when it comes to political matters and sometimes thus careless with the facts. But so far she's the only place I can find the information that the company that won a key billion-dollar high-speed rail company is partly managed by the husband of California senator Dianne Feinstein. You can find which company won the contract, and you can find who runs it, but so far you can't find both pieces of information on the same site.

-- If you were in a car and driving, what's the longest sunset you could experience? About 95 minutes, according to the xkcd What If? blog, and it's not where you'd think.

-- Edward R. Murrow would never have done this.