Somewhere West of Reason
I don’t know why, but I always resist watching these comedy shorts. I believe I’ve viewed so many awful ones, I don’t want to sit through another.
I’m glad I sat through this one. LOVE the character who says the last line (I won’t spoil it). Just brilliant comedic writing there.
This is absolutely hilarious.
Secondly, why is it when we get ourselves in a hole, we continue to dig? Now the answer is to drill in ANWR, you know, the nice place where, according to the official website, includes a “rich pageant of wildlife includes 36 fish species, 36 land mammals, nine marine mammals, and more than 160 migratory and resident bird species.” Drilling there will destroy these things. This is not something we want to begin doing–taking honored, beautiful, protected places, and creating profit centers from them.
You do not fix a heroin addict by giving him more heroin.
Sean Tevis is a guy running for State Representative for Kansas. He created a kick ass xkcd-esque comic documenting the process and the struggle.
I loved it so much, and thought of it much like “if I were running for office, I’d really appreciate someone donating to me,” so I shipped him $10. I’m so glad he reached his 3,000 (now 4,100+) donor mark. More power to him. We need smart people running things.
Man, I’m so proud of Dennis Kucinich. I’m so glad someone is standing up for us. Let’s hope impeachment proceedings occur quickly, and soon.
Watch the his quick and impassioned speech from today:
I love good pop music, and Robyn, from the UK, is making some of the best right now. Check out this awesome song, ‘Konichiwa Bitches’ (even the title is awesome!)
You’ll need to skip to about 1 minute in past the bs intro to get to the good stuff.
Here’s the other awesome song off her self-titled new record, ‘Cobrastyle’ (this isn’t a professional video, just the song with some still images):
I do love me some good pop.
Congressional Approval Hits Record-Low 14%
This is both telling and pathetic. I’m honestly shocked, day after day, at how Congress can not only flush our freedoms away (goodbye 4th Amendment, thanks FISA!) but then Pelosi still gives the bullshit line, “Impeachment is off the table.” (Though now she’s somewhat wafing on it, not that it matters much at this point)
It’s heartbreaking and sad. Has the country ever been this bad off? Financial institutions have gone apeshit thanks to lack of regulation and the mortgage crisis caused from it, Fannie Mae and Mac are getting bailed out to keep us out of a depression, meaning our tax dollars are basically paying for their mistakes. Instead of our president inspiring the nation (hah, I know) to work on fossil fuel alternatives, he lifts the executive ban on off shore drilling. That’s smart, right? Sigh. Worse, he’s convinced that the “pyschology” of such a move is the reason to do so. Not that it would help regular people in the next fucking decade (see how badly they screwed up our government in just 7.5yrs), but hey, it’s all about the ‘pyschology‘, right? Pfft.
I guess when the 14%ers support the 28% approved administration, they’re getting twice the value out of their lapdog behavior, yah?
Four years ago we blamed the Republicans, and voted in Democrats. Now we have to vote in “real progressives” to fix the mess that the ‘centrists’ won’t stop.
Don’t even get me started on Joe Lieberman. How can Democrats, majority or not, sit idle while he peddles his McCain bullshit? I mean, honestly?
Just incredible.
This 5-year old girl can play any tune right after she hears it (Absolute Pitch) and she can sing and play as well. Ridiculous.
This comic pretty well demonstrates how I feel every time I see one of those ridiculous “– God” billboards (i.e. the ones that say things like “Don’t make me come down there. — God”)
After watching this, I will never, ever say anything to the police again. Wow.
One of those videos where you go “30 minutes, wtf…” then, half an hour later, you pick up your jaw off the floor.
Martian Skies - The Big Picture - Boston.com
Some really incredible and awe-inspiring images from Mars.