BubbaGump

I am an autodidact and former library denizen who migrated to the Internet 15 years ago. I am a fan of the strange and bizarre, and a collector of information and it's interconnections. I do not fear death, but dread not being around someday because I will not find out how something turns out. Hopefully I can live to a time when we have the option of jacking into a computer at the end and upoading ourselves instead of merging with the voil. You can also find me posing as Maxcactus at other sites. I was once Maxcactus here but alas lost the password and Netscape can not retrieve it for me. So here you have BubbaGump.

Member Since: December 14, 2006

Participation | Friends | Stats BubbaGump's Participation RSS feed

Show: All | Submissions | Videos | Votes | Sinks | Comments

This story has mostly positive ratings. 7 votes / No sinks

Hospital Worker With TB May Have Exposed 500 Patients

Health & Fitness – An employee at a Bronx hospital has tuberculosis and may have exposed hundreds of patients and co-workers, including more than 200 newborn babies, officials said yesterday.

View Story Discuss (0) (nytimes.com) 481 days ago by BubbaGump

Submitted and Voted for on March 16, 2007 04:43am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 9 votes / No sinks

Phony Fraud Charges

Politics – In its fumbling attempts to explain the purge of United States attorneys, the Bush administration has argued that the fired prosecutors were not aggressive enough about addressing voter fraud. It is a phony argument; there is no evidence that any of them ignored real instances of voter fraud.

View Story Discuss (0) (nytimes.com) 481 days ago by BubbaGump

Submitted and Voted for on March 16, 2007 04:38am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 16 votes / No sinks

The Fall of Modernity

Do No Evil – Has the American narrative authored its own undoing?

View Story Discuss (0) (amconmag.com) 503 days ago by BubbaGump

Submitted and Voted for on February 21, 2007 07:41am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 9 votes / No sinks

The Cautionary Tale of Malt Liquor

Do No Evil – The family of American-born beers speaks proudly about two of its children. Ask about Steam Beer or the less gifted but very popular Light Beer, and the photos come out, the stories begin. But speak aloud the name of the other sibling, and the room grows quiet. Dad won't look up from his plate and Mom goes into the kitchen and cries into her apron.

View Story Discuss (0) (home.earthlink.net) 525 days ago by BubbaGump

Submitted and Voted for on January 30, 2007 06:59pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 9 votes / No sinks

Scientists allege White House pressure

Science – U.S. scientists felt pressured to tailor their writings on global warming to fit the Bush administration's skepticism, in some cases at the behest of an ex-oil industry lobbyist, a congressional committee heard on Tuesday.

View Story Discuss (1) (news.yahoo.com) 525 days ago by BubbaGump

Submitted and Voted for on January 30, 2007 06:32pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 20 votes / 1 sink

Southwest Nearly Lets Liver Transplant Patient Die Because He Wouldn't Buy 2nd Ticket

Do No Evil – Richard Brown nearly died on Sunday, January 21st, thanks to reckless indifference by a Southwest Airlines ticket agent. A dying hep-C patient, Richard, secured an appointment at the Mayo Clinic. After getting turned down, he was referred to the University of San Francisco.

View Story Discuss (3) (consumerist.com) 531 days ago by idyll

Commented on 1 time: 1

The Poor Will Always Be Among You...' Except in Your Political Priorities?
This story has mostly positive ratings. 72 votes / 4 sinks

The Poor Will Always Be Among You...' Except in Your Political Priorities?

Religion – After President Bush's State of the Union address, Bush barely uttered the words "poverty" or "the poor." It's as though our president has taken Jesus' words in Matthew ("the poor you will always have with you") to justify making scant mention of their crushing needs in what is arguably the most important political spe

View Story Discuss (138) (beliefnet.com) 530 days ago by elzorro2162

Voted for on January 25, 2007 04:12pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 20 votes / No sinks

800,000 Missing Kids? Really?

Family – Two boys abducted in Missouri were found in a St. Louis suburb last Friday, in the home of a pizza shop employee. One had been missing for less than a week, the other for more than four years. News reports cited a statistic that 800,000 children disappear every year-or about 2,000 a day. Seriously? How reliable are these numbers?

View Story Discuss (0) (slate.com) 537 days ago by TimALoftis

Voted for on January 25, 2007 03:15pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 11 votes / No sinks

Humans caused Australia's ice age extinctions

Science – An underground trove of fossil skeletons found in Australia suggests humans, not climate change, drove the continent's large land animals to extinction 40,000 to 50,000 years ago.

View Story Discuss (1) (file22.com) 530 days ago by alessliber

Voted for on January 25, 2007 03:14pm

Caverns give up huge fossil haul from 400,000-800,000 years ago
This story has mostly positive ratings. 77 votes / 1 sink

Caverns give up huge fossil haul from 400,000-800,000 years ago

Science – An astonishing collection of fossil animals from southern Australia is reported by scientists. The creatures were found in limestone caves under Nullarbor Plain and date from about 400,000-800,000 years ago.

View Story Discuss (57) (news.bbc.co.uk) 531 days ago by pagey

Voted for on January 25, 2007 03:14pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 4 votes / No sinks

Are Black Men in Trouble

Men – It is known that black men in America are disappearing everyday. Where are they going you ask, well let’s take a look. Black men are being killed by other black men from all sorts of violent acts. Then you also have black men living in poverty with diseases that are curable but they have waited too long now they are near death. Finally yet import

View Story Discuss (0) (memphisrap.com) 688 days ago by memphisrapdotcom

Voted for on January 25, 2007 03:11pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 16 votes / No sinks

Old Yorkshire name reveals roots in Africa

Family – White men with an unusual Yorkshire surname have black African roots, according to a study that shows Britain's multiracial society dates back hundreds of years earlier than most people realise.

View Story Discuss (0) (telegraph.co.uk) 531 days ago by idyll

Voted for on January 25, 2007 03:10pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 27 votes / No sinks

Biggest threat to drinking water? Rust

Health & Fitness – From an attack by militants to a decline in snow melt caused by global warming, public fears about the water supply have heightened in the United States. So who would have thought the top worry among water experts turns out to be rusty pipes?

View Story Discuss (0) (news.yahoo.com) 531 days ago by jeremytoday

Voted for on January 25, 2007 03:09pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 13 votes / 1 sink

The Big Read Initiative

Books – The Big Read aims to provide citizens with the opportunity to read and discuss a single book within their communities.

View Story Discuss (0) (neabigread.org) 530 days ago by idyll

Voted for on January 25, 2007 03:08pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 7 votes / No sinks

Scientists discover how to activate genetic 'switch' that stops cancer

Health & Fitness – A way of ridding the body of lethal tumours has been identified by scientists who have used a genetic "switch" to turn on a key gene for suppressing cancer

View Story Discuss (0) (news.independent.co.uk) 530 days ago by BubbaGump

Submitted and Voted for on January 25, 2007 03:03pm