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Rick Perry talks earth-sizing

At a press conference yesterday, Secretary of Energy Rick Perry raised some eyebrows when he shared his doubts about the earth being round, saying this:  "I've just gotta get this out there. I'm getting sick and tired of scientists and experts and people who know what they're talking about telling me that it's for certain the earth is round. They call us skeptics, round skeptics or whatever. They act like this is fact, but is it? Is it really? How would we know unless we drove from one end of the earth to the other? Who's done that? Nobody! So how do we know? Who has the time to do that anyway, you know? When you fly on a plane, does the stuff below you look round or flat? I've never been in space, but if I was, I'm told I'd see a flat earth in a circular shape. What about televisions? What's the latest thing? Roundscreens? No, it's flatscreens. Look, I'm not trying to be a conspiracy person, but I think we need to put to the side all...

Yahoo's Eric Adelson was just waiting for the Philadelphia Eagles offense to fail

Whenever something new gets brought about in any field, it seems that the skeptics are just waiting for that moment it fails. It doesn't matter if the idea, strategy, or product had been successful fourteen consecutive times prior to that very moment, if it fails on attempt #15, the skeptics will shout in unison, "Ah-ha! See? I told you so!" This seems to be the case with Yahoo sports-writer Eric Adelson, who, in light of the Philadelphia Eagles losing to the Dallas Cowboys 17-3 yesterday, wrote an article, titled, "Chip Kelly's warp speed attack doesn't look so revolutionary anymore in the NFL." He starts his article with: "So about that Chip Kelly revolution..." After bashing the Eagles, Adelson then lightens up and says this: "Kelly deserves to bring in more talent and make his way work, but this isn't Oregon anymore." Okay, he didn't lighten up a great deal. The skepticism is still well in tact. Toward the end of ...