Saturday, December 04, 2010

float like a butterfly sting like a glass onion

Harry Benson (b. Dec. 2, 1929): The Beatles and Cassius Clay, 1964

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dang, now i'm gonna have to learn finnish

don't know if it's in there or NOT, but my favorite is italian and it's

gatsu piedi

(you figure it out)

Glorious, elaborate, profane insults of the world
Cory Doctorow

An open Reddit thread entitled "What are your favorite culturally untranslateable phrases?" rapidly degenerated into a collection of rollicking, profane, grotesque insults, each more alarming and delightful than the last. Read the whole thing, of course, but here are some of the less profane examples:..........

(Image: Okay, so it's funny., a Creative Commons Attribution (2.0) image from andrewbain's photostream)

a whole series of videos on

the wild plants of japan (time lapse) and pretty damn cool

a series of photographs

paris, 1977

if it's them or theirs, i'm sure they'll make an exception

for you and yours? R I P babies, rip

all up in arms about abortions and birth control (not babies mind you but little wiggly thaings. NOT actual human beings, but eggs and sperm) BUT if you're a LIVE, LIVING PERSON, EFF YOU. THEY DON'T GIVE A FLYING YOO HOO. how do you justify that? how do you sentence an innocent to death?

i guess 'they' have NO fucking problems doing JUST THAT

Arizona Cuts Financing for Transplant Patients

By MARC LACEY

PHOENIX — Even physicians with decades of experience telling patients that their lives are nearing an end are having difficulty discussing a potentially fatal condition that has arisen in Arizona: Death by budget cut.

Effective at the beginning of October, Arizona stopped financing certain transplant operations under the state’s version of Medicaid. Many doctors say the decision amounts to a death sentence for some low-income patients, who have little chance of survival without transplants and lack the hundreds of thousands of dollars needed to pay for them..............

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Joshua Lott for The New York Times

Randy Shepherd, a patient, and his daughter Krista.

this is EXACTLY how i feel this morning

thanks lemmy!!!

Friday, December 03, 2010

this cat is to stairs

what maru is to boxes

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coolness

Wiley Vs. Rhodes from ApachePictures on Vimeo.

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what is life?

NASA-Funded Research Discovers Life Built With Toxic Chemical
NASA-funded astrobiology research has changed the fundamental knowledge about what comprises all known life on Earth.

Researchers conducting tests in the harsh environment of Mono Lake in California have discovered the first known microorganism on Earth able to thrive and reproduce using the toxic chemical arsenic. The microorganism substitutes arsenic for phosphorus in its cell components.

"The definition of life has just expanded," said Ed Weiler, NASA's associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at the agency's Headquarters in Washington. "As we pursue our efforts to seek signs of life in the solar system, we have to think more broadly, more diversely and consider life as we do not know it."

This finding of an alternative biochemistry makeup will alter biology textbooks and expand the scope of the search for life beyond Earth. The research is published in this week's edition of Science Express.
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pic from the nasa story linked above - Image of Mono Lake Research area

HERE YA GO!

Sarah Palin Defends Willow's Use Of Anti-Gay Slurs

By On Top Magazine Staff

read it!

here's but a paragraph

An affront to the eyes of God

By Roger Ebert

.......................In doing some research for my review of "Made in Deganham," the movie about the women strikers against Ford UK, I wanted to find out when equal pay for equal work first became the law in the United States. I didn't discover what I expected. Only two weeks ago, a Republican filibuster in the U. S. Senate prevented passage of the Paycheck Fairness Act, which would have added teeth to measures for equal pay. The Republicans presumably feel they have some support from women on this subject, especially those following religions which preach that a woman must submit to the will of her husband: Either her actual husband, or her legislatorial surrogate.........

and hey father, there is NO FUCKING FEMINIST 'PROBLEM' and hey father, THERE IS NOT A HOMOSEXUAL SCANDAL WHERE THE CHURCH HAD TO PAY OUT BILLIONS. IT WAS A FUCKING PEDOPHILE SCANDAL (IT'S DIFFERENT YOU STUPID STEAMIN' PILE)

whoa, this dude run off and unfinished thoughts are ummmmm, well see for yourself

the foreign press have it right

and our press corps don't? well, i think most of them do, they're JUST TOO FUCKING SCARED TO SAY IT

(well in all truth i don't know if i'd use the word traitor. stupid. yes. vicious. yes. self-absorbed. wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy yes. dangerous. yes (only because she has FANS. which by the way, i just cannot understand).
Foreign Press Says What America’s Won’t: Sarah Palin is a Traitor
by Sarah Jones

The GOP's Tabloid Patriot is an International Embarrassment

Sarah Palin has made it to the big time; she’s now being called out by international media. Yesterday, the Russian newspaper Pravda (this same paper has been quoted in numerous Right Wing publications when it criticized President Obama, and was considered a paper of merit at such time) eviscerated Sarah Palin for her unrelenting attacks upon the democratically elected President, at a time when America needs to stand together, united. When members of the International Press call Sarah Palin out for her lack of American patriotism, it’s time for the American Press to pay attention. It’s about time someone did.

Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey writes in Pravda:

“By attacking the democratically elected President of the United States of America at a sensitive time in her country’s history, she shows the tact of a boorish drunkard bawling obscenities at a funeral…....................

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Thursday, December 02, 2010

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Burlesque Dancer Zorita 1950’s

beam me up scotty!

starship meaterprise

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saw this and wanted to post about it

i happen to be one of the fans of tweezerman products. they're EXPENSIVE but VERY well made. there's also a lifetime guarantee on sharpening (if whatever you have needs sharpening that is). on top of everything, the company has a soul

Dal LaMagna: A Serial Entrepreneur Parlays Tweezerman Business Success into Social Activism

The following is an excerpt from Dal LaMagna's new book, "Raising Eyebrows: A Failed Entrepreneur Finally Gets It Right," (Wiley, 2010).

When I started Tweezerman, I had not imagined the company it would eventually become. At the time, I had no grand vision for a grooming implement empire; all I was hoping for was a modest business that could support me.

That hadn’t always been the case.

After 16 years of failing at dozens of businesses, I was simply trying to be realistic, to scale back my schemes, and to take one small step at a time.

It was that sense of caution and focus that put me on the right track. Even today, I’m not sure what would have become of me or Tweezerman had I not experienced those early failures.......

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huh???????????

i'm praying (no pun intended) there is something we're missing here. i'm praying (no pun intended) a judge based a custody decision on whether a parent had a religion or not. this CANNOT be. it just can't

Dad: Court took my kids because I’m agnostic

By Daniel Tencer

A divorced Indiana father says he lost custody of his kids because he's agnostic.

Craig Scarberry had joint 50-50 custody of his three children with his ex-wife for four years, until a judge ruled last month that he was to be limited to four hours' visitation time per week and custody once every second weekend.

Scarberry says the only thing he can find in the ruling to justify the change is a superior court commissioner's comment that "the father did not participate in the same religious training as the mother ... father was agnostic." The ruling also stated that "when the father considered himself a Christian, the parties were able to communicate relatively effectively."..........

Shocking: Agnostic Dad Loses Custody of Kids

An Indiana judge pointed to a man's agnosticism when divesting him of joint custody.-Cenk Uygur

Editor's note: The following is a transcript of an MSNBC segment in which Cenk Uygu, host of Young Turks, interviews a father who claims he lost custody of his kids because he's agnostic.

Religion is, apparently, not "in" anymore, at least not the way it used to be, according to a new poll. Results show that in a single generation the Christian Church drop-rate has increased five-fold. That's a huge number. Goes on to show that "80% of people raised in a church will disengage before they are 30." On the other hand, there are some people who take religious devotion so seriously that they punish others for not sharing the same beliefs. That's exactly what seems to have happened in an Indiana courtroom recently......................

fuck them. really, FUCK THEM

because THEIR kids have enough to eat, they don't give a flying fuck about YOUR kids. the sooner you realize it and STOP VOTING FOR THEM, the better off the ENTIRE COSMOS will be

KIDS. we're talking CHILDREN here. it's TOO COSTLY TO FEED OUR NATION'S HUNGRY CHILDREN

FUCK YOU REPUG-LICK-ENS

FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU

(it's ap, so you have to click the link)

Republicans Block Child Nutrition Bill

and as JM Ashby said on bob cesca's awesome blog
"$4.5 billion for healthier school lunches and more free lunches for poor children is too costly, yet $700 billion for tax cuts for the rich is just what the doctor ordered in this economy."