oh wow wow wow

Original "Alice" manuscript - none compares!
Mark Frauenfelder

Amy Crehore points to the original Alice story.

What could be more beautiful than the original manuscript? This is the original version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, the pen-name of Charles Dodgson, an Oxford mathematician. It is called "Alice's Adventures Underground" and it is a treasure of the British Library. The book is in their online gallery and you can look at each hand-written, hand-drawn page (all 91 pages).

Original "Alice" Manuscript - None Compares!

british online library

i'm just saying........

Virginia pharmacy had plenty of moral convictions, few clients
By Petula Dvorak

The Divine Mercy Care Pharmacy in Chantilly proudly and purposefully limited what it would stock on its shelves. But it turns out that no birth control pills, no condoms, no porn, no tobacco and even no makeup added up to one thing:

No customers.

The self-described "pro-life" pharmacy went out of business last month, less than two years after it opened to great fanfare, with a Catholic priest sprinkling holy water on the strip-mall store tucked between an Asian supermarket and a scuba shop.

No word on whether he returned for last rites................

there's really not too much more to say

he's doing a good job of showing us how intelligent he is!

Huckabee compares gay marriage to incest, polygamy, drug use

i have a question..........

do 'folksy' people folks use bendy straws? answer me that one!

(p.s. senator yee, do you really think sarevil knows what obfuscating means? c'mon now, play fair!)

Dumped documents: Sarah Palin demanded bendable straws, Learjet for Cal State speech
By Steven Harmon
Contra Costa Times

SACRAMENTO "” From bendable straws to a Learjet, the list of Sarah Palin"s demands for her speaking engagement at Cal State Stanislaus is a striking portrait of the rock star perks and comforts a celebrity speaker can command.

But it was how some details of Palin"s contract with the Cal State Stanislaus Foundation came to light that had Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, outraged Tuesday. A pair of Cal State Stanislaus students said they recovered from a Dumpster parts of the very contract that Yee had sought in a public records request, along with bags of other shredded documents.

"When we have individuals that are deceiving people and obfuscating, we are in deep trouble "” our democracy is in trouble," said Yee, the author of a bill, SB330, that would require public university foundations to be subject to the same scrutiny as schools. "It is truly shocking and a gross violation of the public trust that such documents would be thrown away and destroyed during a pending investigation."...........

hey jim carrey

S T F U NOW

holy (so to speak) shite! if i EVER went back to church

(don't worry, it's NOT likely) i know which one it would be

Priest calls for pope's resignation

From Adam Reiss, CNN

East Longmeadow, Massachusetts (CNN) -- The phones are ringing off the hook at the parish of St. Michael's Church, where the Rev. James Scahill called in a sermon last weekend for the pope to resign over the church's sexual abuse scandal.

Pope Benedict XVI has found himself tied to the crisis after news broke last month that 30 years ago, when he was an archbishop, he approved accommodations in his diocese for a priest accused of child sex abuse so the priest could undergo therapy.

The priest, who was not identified, was let go from church service in 2008, according to church officials in Germany..............

i need one this size right about now (10 minutes and i'm off to work!!!)

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by now i think you've ALL seen standing cat

i don't believe i posted the video but it was everywhere. i HAD to post this one though. a NEW standing cat (and bud). it's wicked awesome!

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buzzfeed gives us the

10 craziest michele bachmann quotes

here are but TWO:

i don't even know what to say

and this comes RIGHT after me listening (while i was doing my makeup this morning) to the latest 'this american life' podcast. the first of four stories was about a former monk/priest who, at the age of 26 (or somewhere around there) was sent out from his monastery (all he wanted to do was STAY at the monastery mind you and pray and mediate) to be a 'fixer'. yes, it's exactly what it sounds like. his job was to cover up the MULTIPLE FUCK UPS by the catholic church. fix them and bury them where they'll never see the light of day. obviously, if he was being interviewed, he came over to the light and no longer covers up rapes and theft and the like.

so not 1/2 hour later, i see this:

Bishop 'blames Jews' for criticism of Catholic church record on abuse

Tom Kington, Rome

A furious transatlantic row has erupted over quotes that were attributed to a retired Italian bishop, which suggested that Jews were behind the current criticism of the Catholic church's record on tackling clerical sex abuse.

A website quoted Giacomo Babini, the emeritus bishop of Grosseto, as saying he believed a "Zionist attack" was behind the criticism, considering how "powerful and refined" the criticism is.

The comments, which have been denied by the bishop, follow a series of statements from Catholic churchmen alleging the existence of plots to weaken the church and Pope Benedict XVI.

Allegedly speaking to the Catholic website Pontifex, Babini, 81, was quoted as saying: "They do not want the church, they are its natural enemies. Deep down, historically speaking, the Jews are God killers."

The interview was spotted on Friday by the American Jewish Committee, which said Babini was using "slanderous stereotypes, which sadly evoke the worst Christian and Nazi propaganda prior to world war two".

On its website, the American Jewish Group Committee quoted bishop Vincenzo Paglia, an official at the Italian Bishops' Conference, as saying Babini's remarks were "entirely contrary to the official line and mainstream thought of the Catholic church"............

an absolute PRINCE of a man

is running for governor of new york.

espouses CONSERVATIVE values and all - but does indeed have a 'love child' with someone who used to work for/with him

not really thinking it's a good idea to include bestiality videos in your emails if you're running for public office either. but hey THAT'S JUST ME!

one more thing. it appears even though racist pictures and accusations and videos were spread about, PALADINO (like so many others) claims he is NOT a racist..........why some of my best friends are____________(insert your own word here)

NY Tea Party gov. candidate sent videos of bestiality, pics of Obama as pimp
By Daniel Tencer

The Tea Party-backed Republican candidate for governor of New York State sent dozens of sexually explicit and racially insensitive mass emails as a matter of course in recent years, including one featuring bestiality and another that was made popular by a neo-Nazi organization.

An online news source in western New York has uncovered dozens of emails from Carl Paladino, a Buffalo-area land developer who threw his hat into the ring for governor last week.

Among the emails Paladino forwarded to numerous people was one of a photo of President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama dressed in pimp and prostitute outfits. The email subject line read "White House Ball."

Another email featured an embedded clip of a hard-core bestiality video featuring a woman and a horse; yet another email was entitled "Miss France 2008 f**king.".............

i wish i had teachers like this (although i did have some good ones)

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from lowering the bar:

Judge Finds Hockey Player Guilty of Being a Colossal Asshole

i LOVE tattoos, especially GEEK ones!

if you want to know what this stands for (and you really SHOULD want to know, it's cute) here's the laughing squid link:

A Trip To MoCCA Art Festival 2010

by Scott Beale

pic from the laughing squid link above

cool!

click the geekologie link below to get the larger picture:

The Moon In 3-D: No Star Trek Geordi Glasses Required!

oh sarevil sarevil sarevil!

SNL brings us "The Sarah Palin Network"

By Joan Walsh

shows as he goes

Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952, photographer.

[Shows As He Goes, half-length portrait]

c1905.

1 photographic print.

Notes:
Curtis no. 276-05.
LC no. 87.
Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress).
Published in: Library of Congress prints and photographs: an illustrated guide / Library of Congress. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1995, p. 26.
Title devised by Library staff.

Subjects:
Shows As He Goes.
Indians of North America--1900-1910.

Format: Portrait photographs--1900-1910.
Photographic prints--1900-1910.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

For more information about this collection, see www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/ecur/

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g03891

this is my point EXACTLY (see previous posting)

math? WHO THE HELL NEEDS MATH????????????(or science or literature)?


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you know it WOULD be rather cool

if wilma and fred and barney and betty and pebbles and bam bam got to play fetch with dino. it would be rather cool if humankind was only 6,000 years old (not too much messy history and anthropology to study). it would be rather cool if we could rape our planet every single second of every single hour of the day with NO consequences. it would be rather cool if we could go through life without having to READ AN ACTUAL BOOK or have to learn MATH OR SCIENCE (math and science, i SPIT on them, WHO NEEDS THEM!). it would be rather cool if we all lived in the same fantasy world and were allowed to start killing each other off because our god was better than your god and our god wanted us to kill in her name. YEAH, IT WOULD ALL BE SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO COOL but unfortunately, there IS reality and all if ALL of america doesn't wake up soon and tell this bio-tch to stfu NOW, we're all doomed


Palin: America does not need ‘this snake oil science stuff’

By Stephen C. Webster

Up yours, scientists.

That's essentially the message sent by former politician Sarah Palin during a recent speech to the Southern Republican Leadership Conference, where she disparaged the work of thousands of the world's top minds to the delight of a large crowd that laughed, clapped and cheered her on the whole way.

She was addressing the increasingly urgent matter of global climate change when Palin whipped out a gem of a quote, telling the conference-goers that American does not need "this snake oil science stuff" and calling climate science "Gore-gate."..........