Lie: After Sarah Palin was nominated as McCain’s running mate, aides stated that she had traveled to Ireland, Germany, Kuwait and Iraq to meet with members of her state’s National Guard. She said on ABC that she had visited Canada and Mexico
Truth: Her trip to Ireland consisted of a refueling stop. She never set foot in Iraq and was only in the Kuwait region for two days. She went to Mexico on vacation and has been to Canada once. 
Of course, for someone who claims to have foreign policy insight into the …

Barack Obama released an ad yesterday (video) that uses John McCain’s self-professed lack of knowledge regarding computers as (one of the many) signs that McCain isn’t a messenger of change. As attack ads go, its fairly tame. Especially when you consider that the McCain’s campaign released ads this week that implied that Obama is a pedophile (video) , cast him as the big bad wolf  (video) that’s going to gobble up Sarah Palin and stopped just short of calling him “uppity”(video). 
But the Republicans are losing it today over the ad, hilariously giving it …

While the first beam of protons made their way around the Large Hadron Collider on Wednesday, a team of Greek hackers set out to prove a point: 

Now it has emerged that, as the first particles were circulating in the machine near Geneva, a Greek group had hacked into the facility and displayed a page with the headline “GST: Greek Security Team.”
The people responsible signed off: “We are 2600 – dont mess with us. (sic)”
The website – cmsmon.cern.ch – can no longer be accessed by the public as a result of …