Thoughtless for the Day

"The Sha Na Na greaser, it turns out, has an unexpected Old World cousin: the Scottish Highlander."

- from Sha Na Na and the Invention of the Fifties

A mere seventeen years after the Dead Milkmen first postulated that Sha Na Na were driving cultural force of the later twentieth century, the rest of the world (or, in this case, most of Columbia University) has finally caught up. Somehow, this recent revelation has resulted in the Milkmen being quoted in the Nation Review Online

And in other news: A woman in a cow suit ran amok!

RATYHTL's World O' Ignorance: Bastards Out of the Carolinas Edition

World O' Ignorance would first like to salute the appropriately named Danny Funderburk, mayor of Fort Mill, South Carolina who circulated the following email:

According to the Book of Revelations [sic] the anti-christ [sic] is: The anti-christ [sic] will be a man, in his 40s, of MUSLIM descent, who will deceive the nations with persuassive [sic] language, and have a MASSIVE Christ-like appeal.... the prophecy says that people will flock to him and he will promise false hope and world peace, and when he is in power, will destory [sic] everything. Is it OBAMA??

According to Danny, "I was just curious if there was any validity to it. I was trying to get documentation if there was any scripture to back it up."

I wonder who broke the news to Danny that Islam was founded about five hundred years after the Book of Revelation (not "Revelations") was written.

World O' Ignorance would also like to recognize North Carolina's Joel Fanti: a self-described "chemical engineer" who brought ridicule upon himself and his entire community by not knowing that Creationism is not Science.

Gentlemen, World O' Ignorance congratulates you!