Bag of Randomness

  • I think it’s very classy of George W. Bush for having his book released after the midterm elections.  He’s often said that the new president deserves his silence, and he has certainly held true to that statement.
  • WifeGeeding sleeps most comfortably on the recliner in our living room, and our dogs like to guard her at night.  For the heck of it, I snuck in took a picture when it was all dark.  I used a flash, which is why the picture appears to be taken with lighting, but I crack up at how OtherDogGeeding is sleeping on my new bean bag chair and how I caught DogGeeding in the middle of a yawn.
  • Interesting fact about Chernobyl:
  • Crayola thanks the Tea Partiers
  • I’m so disappointed with how Apple is reacting over that list iPhone prototype and Jason Chen.
  • There was a crazy murder in the city that we live in.  A postman found a body of a mother of six laying on the road with her decapitated head.  Word on the street teh murder weapon was a chainsaw.  Article
  • How to cheat on a test using a bottle of Coke
  • Indiana University student nation’s only magic major
  • Squirrel Fights off Crows – Protects Dead Friend’s Body
  • Spin Magazine – Achtung Baby the best/most influential album of the past 25 years
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Liberty University selects Glenn Beck as graduation speaker

Fox News host Glenn Beck, the outspoken and confrontational media darling of working-class conservatism, will give the commencement speech at Liberty University on May 15, Chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr. said.

The 12,000-student Lynchburg school in previous years has booked graduation speakers in line with its Christian values, and Falwell said Beck held true to university tradition.

“Beck is one of the few courageous voices in the national media standing up for the principles upon which this nation was founded,” Falwell said in a news release.

Beck has accused President Obama of pushing the country toward communism, and left-leaning personalities have in turn attacked Beck’s fiery brand of angry, weepy and moralizing commentary. But most Liberty students responded with enthusiasm to the news that their commencement speaker would be the man whose 2009 Fox News debut drew more than 2.4 million viewers.

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I’m a little surprised that the evangelical Liberty University will allow a Mormon to speak at a graduation ceremony, as evangelicals don’t believe that Mormons are Christians.  But then again, they did have Ben Stein speak there last year, and he’s Jewish.

There is a bit of a local tie with this story:

The Rev. Paige Patterson, the eighth president of the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, will also speak at the commencement and a service the day before, the news release said.

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Tracking Chinese Foreign Investments

Since 2005 Chinese firms and arms of the Chinese government have invested hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign companies and raw materials. Each dot on this map tracks one of those investments, with larger dots representing larger investments. Explore the map by rolling over and clicking on the dots and timeline.

Forbes.com Interactive

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