We have a little situation here.
I’ve mentioned the kid before. Today, his girlfriend who is staying with us until school starts in September was referred to as a “nigger bitch” in a public place, and no one did anything about it. Read the rest of this entry »
Anderson Cooper attempts to deconstruct Palin’s astonishing, Orwellian assertion that Quitting Is Leadership in a discussion with Palin spokeswoman Meg Stapleton, but gets hopelessly tangled up in sports analogies.
Basketball? More like a round of Twister after a few double shots. Read the rest of this entry »
A sea lion hijacked an Orange County Sherriff’s Department fireboat. Full story at the OCSD blog.
He had been apprehended on a charge of annoying some humans. The deputies intended to haul him out to sea and dump him overboard, but he had other plans, so he took over the foul weather steering station and overrode the controls.
The deputies managed to get back to shore, where the sea lion went overboard and posed on the dock for his photo op.
Vdeo below the fold. Read the rest of this entry »
Tartan sheep at a gathering of the Clans
. . . it’s too early to say if, in 100 years, we will have chihuahuas herding pocket-sized sheep.
Government by fiat, by czar.
Bizarre. Now with the signing statements, Obama, takes a page from his dumbfuck predecessor. Read the rest of this entry »
Yeah, I was a fan. Sometimes a horrified one, but a fan still.
Not that it matters much, but just for now can we remember the remarkable talent, the genius, the energy, and forget the rest?
The Scottish parliament laid down a marker yesterday, approving the most ambitious targets for the reduction of greenhouse gases of any country on earth to date: a reduction from 1990 levels of 42% by 2020 and 80% by 2050. Read the rest of this entry »
Not that I have anything to complain about, looking around the world today…..
But in czeching on news throughout the day, I’ve bee kind of annoyed that the CNN website is consistently showing the “iconic image” of the young woman mourning over the dead body of a student, shot by Nixon’s revolutionary guard, so to speak.
We see Neda, and come up with our own “iconic images”.
But never draw the connection to the differing historical contents of the events.
I’ve yet to see any article reflecting upon the fact that an intensely prosperous country, as the US was at that time, the government was killing its young to silence that dissent.
Just sayin’
A new record of the recent attacks on indigenous Peruvians has surfaced, with 47 photographs, and been posted at Survival International. Read the rest of this entry »
A team of researches examined the intestinal flora of Yellow-legged gulls in the south of France – life is just rough for some people – and found their guts filled with ever evolving antibiotic resistant bacteria. some wth more resistance than the same bacteria in humans. As the authors point out, this presents the possiblity of the birds transmitting the same bacteris, or strains with even greater resistance, back to the human population. Read the rest of this entry »
