When doing jumping jacks, its best not to have your shoes tied together.

The Iranian parliament passed a frightening new law. The law requires "the country's Jews and Christians to wear coloured badges to identify them and other religious minorities as non-Muslims."

Ouchies. Sounds like the Nazi's are rising again.

The law has yet to be approved by the "Supreme Guide" Ali Khamenehi, but if he signs it, the law could take effect as early as next year.

Don't die.

**UPDATE** Looks like the press who first released this story (a Canadian newsource, of course) didn't check up on all its facts. Looks like the story is false and we don't have to worry about Iran going Nazi on us just yet.

I smash robots into little pieces when they look at me wrong.

The claim by Dennis Hastert (Republican, of course): "Well, folks, if you earn $40,000 a year and have a family of two children, you don’t pay any taxes. So you probably, if you don’t pay any taxes, you are not going to get a very big tax cut."

He's right on one count. A family bringing in only 40,000 dollars doesn't pay any federal taxes, but, as Think Progress points out, the family does pay payroll taxes, gas taxes, sales taxes, etc. Payroll taxes alone amount 7.65 percent of their yearly income.

Here's to hoping the Democrats take advantage of this mistake.

Don't die.

I have traveled beyond the speed of light... and come away quite dizzy, so next time, I'll just tell the alien 'No, thanks.'

David Plotz, an editor for Slate, has given himself a goal: "to find out what happens when an ignorant person actually reads the book on which his religion is based."

So, he's reading the Torah. He is reading the Etz Hayim translation (given to him by his wife for the project), although most of his links refer to the Bartelby King James translation (which is probably because this version is free, and features full-text searchability and a quick verse finder).

Although I myself am not particularly religious, I do find religion fascinating and many of the stories somewhat entertaining. So, here's one man's journey through the "Greatest Story Ever Told."

Don't die.

At age two, every child should be expected to hold a job.

I am blown away by people's inability to see the problems of mass-survellience by government officials.

I've read blog comments by people claiming their right to life, trumps my right to privacy. There are people who tell me I have a pre-9/11 mentality. There are even those who argue that a national database of phone calls (tracking who and how long) is not an invasion of privacy because there is no personal identifiable information in a phone number (despite the fact that there is a bill heading through Congress outlawing the sale of phone records due to abuse by corporations, private detectives, and criminals).

Mitch Ratcliffe writes, "Turning the American population into a suspect class is the least efficient and most error-prone approach to protecting civil society."

Don't die.

Launchpad McQuack is the greatest pilot to ever crash the skies.

Frankly, marketers are dumb. Expecially Nielsen, who is going to begin to text message theater goers to get instant feedback on the products seen pre-movie.

Yeah. If you text message me spam, I get upset. If you text me spam during the middle of a movie, the only reply you should ever expect is multiple explicatives.

Don't die.