Irrelevance Glorified

Recently, both The Colbert Report and The Daily Show featured consumers who successfully took legal action against big banks when they were threatened with foreclosure. In one case, the couple didn’t have a loan with the bank in question, and they owned their house outright! I found it interesting that both shows found different people to interview, and took such different approaches to the subject. As one might expect, Stephen Colbert’s approach is a bit more absurd.

Well, it’s been quite a while since an update for this webpage, and I know that everyone has been waiting excitedly for the next installment of my Nano-man series (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3). I don’t really have anything new to mention on this one. It’s not really any worse than the last one. We’ve moved on to classical, Mendelian genetics. This episode will be much less educational, I’m afraid, since we were absolved of the duty of defining the vocab words within the text. Reading over this, there sure are a lot of “money sentences” where I just throw out a bunch of keywords. Oh well.

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Nano-man, Microboy, and Frank Quentin were exhausted. After battling Nano-man’s clone, his creator Erich Von Martin, and hordes of henchmen, they had slept for sixteen hours. Then the hate mail started to pour in. You see, Frank Quentin had accidentally destroyed the cloning machine and erased all files pertaining to it in its computer. That knowledge could have rocketed the science of biology forward fifty years. The scientific community was upset.
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