Take this quiz It is amazing how much stuff we don’t know about how our modern world works. Honestly, if it wasn’t for my father and grandfather working in machine shops most of their lives, I probably wouldn’t have done as well as I did.
This is kind of a hoot concerning tiny particles, time travel, and irony. Give it a read.
Wow, at least some people are noticing that the GOP is motivated by racial hatred, moral bankruptcy and deranged lunacy.
An aside, and hopefully not a horrifically offensive one. Does anyone know the Jewish equivalent of Uncle Tom? Because if anyone qualifies for that role in this situation, Eric Cantor absolutely does.
His silence on this topic speaks volumes about how big of a sellout he is.
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So, the GOP has been harping since basically the beginning of his presidential campaign that the Democrats treat Barack Obama as some form of minor deity. You know, with McCain’s mocking faux-religious commercial about “The One” and such crap.
I mean, I’ve been to African-American campaign events and never saw anyone worshiping Obama. Hoping to God he won, yes, but prostration? No.
So, since Saint Ronald can’t actually be a god to them (he got divorced, remember?) the have no issue calling him Ronaldus Magnus. You know, like Charlemagne or something of the like. A Holy Roman Emperor from Death Valley (Days), as it were.
Jackasses.
Other failures from GOP.com include the name change to Tom Michael Steele’s blog. Yesterday it was called “What Up!” Today it is called Change the Game.
That sounds very – ahem! – whitewashed. Not that you could tell by all the non-white and mostly non-male faces being used as decoration on the website.
From the ModernMet write-up:
What I Like About It: This is a hilarious design by Aaron Hogg for Tee Fury. This illustration plays off the popularity of Facebook and status updates. This is the reason you shouldn’t post everything on Facebook, especially if you are friends with your boss and most definitely if your boss is Darth Vader. The sad part about this is there are a ton of people who actually makes these types of posts on Facebook and Twitter. A few other funny details here are the Z-Harmony and Contractors Wanted ads, and the fact that the Storm Trooper is friends with R2D2.
Seriously, do you think this girl is fat?
Filippa Hamilton is 5′ 10″ and 120 pounds, and was fired for being too fat by Ralph Lauren. So much so that they mutated a picture of her to look like this:
Here’s her interview this morning:
Here’s another story on the subject.
It’s a damn shame fashion morons think this is what a woman should look like.
For some contrast, here is an example of an attractive woman who actually exists in the real world.
Also, a video from former Baywatch star Nicole Eggert reacting to asshats who have mocked her weight gain.
Mucilage. Yeah, it’s as nasty as it sounds.
See that picture? It’s basically aquatic snot. Mmmm.
GeekDad reminded me that I had heard a story about this earlier. Check the reminder story here.
National Geographic has the original story on the substance, along with some video:
Your bar is scamming you. According to the New York Times, chicken breasts are strangely cheaper than chicken wings, leading to the birth of the boneless chicken wing. Both cheaper and less tasty, these mutants of bar food are turning folks off.
Some things aren’t worth saving a buck on.
(hat tip to Sports by Brooks for pointing this out)
If you berate them for not closing Guantanamo fast enough, not ending Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell fast enough, not evacuating Iraq fast enough, not passing a health care bill fast enough, and so on…do you not expect one their number to at some point push back and point out that making these kind of changes takes time and is a bit difficult?
I firmly believe that a lot of Obama’s liberal critics are a) progressives who don’t realize Obama isn’t a liberal or b) PUMAs who won’t let it go. BooMan addresses all of them in what can be called a nice breath of fresh air.
I may be spending too much time on GeekDad but this discussion fascinates me.
I suppose you could always refer to the chart.