Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Obamacare
Feel free to use this space to talk about your impressions of the Affordable Care Act's health insurance exchanges, but no spoilers.
Wednesday, September 4, 2013
Daily Weird
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Stringer Bell, delivering a pizza, with someone else's voice, in a space suit. Video at The Mary Sue.
The world is insanity.
Thursday, August 15, 2013
Everybody check your lions. They may be counterfeit.
China zoo tries to pass dog off as lion.
I could imagine this happening in Florida, but in China? You're better than that, China.
The counterfeit only came to light when "a mother visited the zoo, in a park in the city of Louhe, to show her son the sounds different animals made." So if there hadn't been someone specifically checking animal sounds, the zoo might have gotten away with it.
After the lion fraud was discovered, people subjected the other animals in the zoo to additional scrutiny by, I don't know, maybe looking at them. They found "a white fox in a leopard's den and another dog being passed off as a wolf." I predict that, after careful veterinary examination, that "white fox" will turn out to be a spray-painted dachshund.
I could imagine this happening in Florida, but in China? You're better than that, China.
The counterfeit only came to light when "a mother visited the zoo, in a park in the city of Louhe, to show her son the sounds different animals made." So if there hadn't been someone specifically checking animal sounds, the zoo might have gotten away with it.
After the lion fraud was discovered, people subjected the other animals in the zoo to additional scrutiny by, I don't know, maybe looking at them. They found "a white fox in a leopard's den and another dog being passed off as a wolf." I predict that, after careful veterinary examination, that "white fox" will turn out to be a spray-painted dachshund.
Monday, August 12, 2013
Deep Thought of the Day
Deep thought for today:
As you read this, somewhere in the world, someone you admire is probably on the toilet right now. It might be a celebrity. It might be a sports star. It might be a family member.
It may be Joss Whedon. Or Washington Mystics power forward Crystal Langhorne. Or one of your children.
Makes you think.
As you read this, somewhere in the world, someone you admire is probably on the toilet right now. It might be a celebrity. It might be a sports star. It might be a family member.
It may be Joss Whedon. Or Washington Mystics power forward Crystal Langhorne. Or one of your children.
Makes you think.
Friday, August 2, 2013
Sunday, July 28, 2013
Hook DVDs
Why do networks not sell cheap "hook" DVDs with the first one or two episodes of a popular series on them?
I know my grandmother (pictured here) would like Downton Abbey if she only watched the first episode, and she might like The Wire, John Adams, and Yes, Minister if she tried them. But the only way I can get her to try them is to buy a whole season of each. Or, you know, just steal the first episodes. I'm nervous about trying theft., though I've seen enough episodes of Cops to know that I'll never outrun them.
I know my grandmother (pictured here) would like Downton Abbey if she only watched the first episode, and she might like The Wire, John Adams, and Yes, Minister if she tried them. But the only way I can get her to try them is to buy a whole season of each. Or, you know, just steal the first episodes. I'm nervous about trying theft., though I've seen enough episodes of Cops to know that I'll never outrun them.
Monday, July 22, 2013
Limbaugh on Slavery
Rush Limbaugh (from RawStory):
As disgusting as it is, I can't help but be amused by the logic. "Yeah, sure. We may have carted entire shiploads of people to distant lands, to be worked to death under the Caribbean sun or bred like cattle on Virginia plantations, but everyone was doing it back then. And we stopped eventually. Why don't we ever get credit for stopping?"
If any race of people should not have guilt about slavery, it’s Caucasians. The white race has probably had fewer slaves and for a briefer period of time than any other in the history of the world. ... It’s preposterous that Caucasians are blamed for slavery when they’ve done more to end it than any other race...
As disgusting as it is, I can't help but be amused by the logic. "Yeah, sure. We may have carted entire shiploads of people to distant lands, to be worked to death under the Caribbean sun or bred like cattle on Virginia plantations, but everyone was doing it back then. And we stopped eventually. Why don't we ever get credit for stopping?"
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