"No Dubyasan, I didn't say 'Do the robot.' I said 'do your fly up'."
(via emptyhanded)
This figure does not talk, but comes dressed in an Army jacket nearly identical to the one he wore on that historic day.
Subject. Verb. Object. Yeah, that's a sentence all right:
China is clearly treating human hair sauce as a problem.
It's "welter and waste," people. And Jacob didn't have a ladder; he used a ramp.
Perhaps now Oklahoma, Texas, and Georgia will require their public schools to place stickers on their King James bibles as well: the Old Testament is a horrifically dumbed down version of a vast work of obscure Hebrew poetry, and should not be considered as history or as template for any sort of material reality.
The average heart rate for a [five year old] child is 100. "[...]because of what we'd seen at WonderLab, I decided to take his pulse." When she did, it was 224 beats per minute. Later that day she called the boy's pediatrician who made adjustments in Harrison's medication for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
WonderLab has since installed new signs on their exhibits:
YOU MUST BE THIS TALL TO RIDE.
IF YOU ARE SMALLER YOU SHOULD MAYBE NOT DO SO MUCH SPEED.
Neckface sure seems to get around. He's at the the New Image gallery in NYC, and on parking meters and stop signs all over Berkeley (this one across the street from People's Park, on Bowditch at Haste).
I can't decide which element of this snapshot of Big Dick Cheney disturbs me most.
There's the obvious, of course, but one wonders what might inspire such a grotesque, er, display. Is it the little girl? the bald guy? the milkshake proffered by said bald guy?
I'm going to say it's the milkshake.
And then I'm going to scrub my eyes.
Neckface sure seems to get around/a>. He's at the the New Image gallery in NYC, and on parking meters and stop signs all over Berkeley (this set is across the street from People's Park).
Principal Steve Unfreid, who said he was inspired in his choice of disciplinary tactics by the actions of Jesus, asked teacher Joe Brost to whip him in front of two male students in the school's basement last month after the boys were caught kissing girls in the locker room for the second time in a week. "It hurts Jesus when you kiss teenage girls," the principal said. "But it hurts so, so good. Now watch closely, son, because oh! Hallelujah! Jesus says 'whip me harder!'"
Bob Jones 3rd, president of the fundamentalist college that bears his name, wrote a letter to Bush saying the President should use his win to appoint conservative judges and approve legislation "defined by biblical norm."
Does your lifestyle choice conform to "biblical norms"?
Take one of Landover Baptist Church's a host of fun quizzes to find out!
Comments are back open.
They weren't turned off on purpose. Just experiencing an MT snafu.
Well, that was fast.
Scott Peterson will not be golfing with OJ.
James Wolcott on Andrew Sullivan's Real Time meltdown:
Since every war criminal in the current Bush administration will be able to command huge honoraria on the lecture circuit and lucrative positions on corporate boards once they leave the bloodshed behind, working up ire over a professor's speaking fees seems a bit much.
It was an incredible tantrum. I put it all down to 'roid rage.
The strangest thing in the broadcast happened when the show was over. The panelists stood, Sullivan's back to the camera, and as the credits rolled, he began squeezing, massaging his own buttocks with his hands. I thought he might be trying to dislodge a thong strap that had run up rather deep, but no, he seemed to be feeling up his own butt.
OK, maybe it was a 'rrhoid rage.
In Madison, Wis., a pharmacist faces possible disciplinary action by the state pharmacy board for refusing to transfer a woman's prescription for birth-control pills to another druggist or to give the slip back to her. He would not refill it because of his religious views.
I wonder his god rewarded him by letting him instead take on himself the unwanted, ectopic pregnancies, hyperandrogenism, leiomyomata uteri, ovarian cysts, migraine, clinical depression, and other conditions the drug had been used to treat. 'Cause that'd be neat.
Homophobes ♥ Bush's, um, salami
[...] the most successful tactics
[pushed] up from below and initially met resistance
from White House aides, Christian leaders said.
A graphic representation of the effectiveness of exit polling,
or the manipulation of digitally cast ballots.
via Cardhouse
Plus,election results cartograms for the social geography geek in your life.
If you need an escape from the woes of the day week next four years, go see The Incredibles.
At the Grand Lake, if you can.
Happiness is... having someone think of you when she sees a Dead Animal Collection.
Computer Loses 4,500 Votes
Scattered other problems may change results in races around the state.
Franklin County's (Ohio) unofficial results gave Bush 4,258 votes to Democratic challenger John Kerry's 260 votes in Precinct 1B, which votes at New Life Church on Stygler Road. Records show only 638 voters cast ballots in that precinct.
(both via the Cardhouse Robot)
"Ach," says Oliver James, the clinical psychologist. "I was too depressed to even speak this morning. I thought of my late mother, who read Mein Kampf when it came out in the 1930s and thought, 'Why doesn't anyone see where this is leading?'"
(thanks, green )
What's with the Jehovah's Witnesses swarming over Berkeley right now? This is not a neighborhood of the weak willed and easily swayed, and they're not going to infiltrate it by dressing in black (though today, at least, that does help them fit right in). A few of them came canvassing over the weekend, and came back today to offer "help" if I was upset or, you know, elated over how the election had gone. Which results they might have foretold, had we allowed them to minister to us then.
Their smirking asses might be bruised for a couple of days.
At least now my boots are clean.
“Most people are motivated to work hard and well only by the expectation of reward, whether it’s a pay cheque or a word of praise,” said Richmond. “In these experiments we found we could remove that link and create a situation where repetitive, hard work would continue without any reward.”
It's that magical time, boys and girls.
Get out there and vote like you mean it!
I'm still clearing up the wreckage of last night's sangria and candy orgy, but will stop long enough to give the annual Trick or Treater Tally. We filled a total of 74 pails, bags, and little costumed hands. Costume details after the legendary jump.