A New Title From Jon Lajoie: Very Super Famous

This picked up over EIGHTY THOUSAND hits in under 24 hours. Quite NSFW!
This is a very talented cat,,,

A Few Stray, Amusing Images

Johnny McEntee, UCONN's Trick-Shot Quarterback

Practically EVERY boy and a lotta girls have tossed a football--that iconic, ironic oblate spheroid of gridiron legend and lore--around. So just about anybody ought to be able to relate to the really quite astonishing skill this young fella demonstrates. As some wag on FB said, Johnny Mac's BIGGEST trick, however, was convincing folks that UCONN was a "Football" school.

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Blow Up Their Fucking Heads!

My pal (and late-week B'day celebrant), the Santa Fe satirist par excellence, Jim Terr, sent me this with the instructions: "Cut and paste this on any Rightard "wall" on Facebook, then step back and watch the clowns' heads explode."

A noble act, indeed!

""The Tea Party is a diverse group of patriotic Americans and their opinions should be taken seriously. They are led almost exclusively by AynRandians born on 3rd base who think they hit a triple. Their numbers include:
Civil War Reenactors, middle school dropouts, racists, xenophobes, birthers, klan members, rednecks, war mongers, seniors on 'social' security who hate 'socialism', closeted homophobes, Sean Hanninazis, gun enthousiasts, White Separatists, paranoid home-schoolers, Limbaugh dittoheads, Minute Men, backwoods yokels, bible thumpers who like to watch lesbian bondage, flat earthers, Ruby Ridgers, secessionists, greedy pricks, survivalists, Faux News shit kickers, Neofascists, Creationists, Tongues Chanters, Neocons, Glenn Beck bots, John Birchers, snake handlers, red baiters, and illiterate goobers who think Jesus rode on the back of a triceratops.""

Gore Vidal Peels The Mythology of Reaganism, Finds Nothing There

George Carlin, Near The End, On Important Stuff, Part II

Part I is here.

Mother Nature Twitches, and Cities Vanish

Or in this case, a huge cargo facility on the Amazon River at the port of Manaus, in October, 2010. A thing like this could really complicate your day, nest paw?

PZ Myers & JT Eberhart Regard The Attractive Xian Myths

Did you know about "SkeptiCon?" I didn't and I should have had an engraved invite.

During Skepticon III, speaker/biologist/author of Pharyngula, PZ Myers, speaks with a protester handing out Ray Comfort's version of Origin of the Species. Co-founder of Skepticon/campus organizer & high school specialist for Secular Student Alliance, JT Eberhard, speaks with a Christian, attempting to extract from her reasonable evidence for believing in the Bible and god.

Good luck widdat, you betcha!

Extended 28 minute cut available HERE.

Thirty Minutes With "Mr. Deity," Brian Dalton

How To Free A Chained Dog and Win Good Karma

This is quite good, and the affectless voices actually amplify the volume of the discourse. I found it on F-Book.

A Ticket To The Freak Show, Front-Row Set, With A Notebook

"Idiocracy": The Credits

Would "Kingdom Cum" Count as a Theological Neolo-Gism?

Once again, The Washington Post has published the winning submissions to its
yearly neologism contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings
for common words.
The winners are:

1. Coffee (n.), the person upon whom one coughs.
2. Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained.
3. Abdicate (v.), to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
4. Esplanade (v.), to attempt an explanation while drunk.
5. Willy-nilly (adj.), impotent.
6. Negligent (adj.),a condition in which you absentmindedly answer the door in your
nightgown.
7. Lymph (v.), to walk with a lisp.
8. Gargoyle (n.), olive-flavoured mouthwash.
9. Flatulence (n.) emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steamroller.
10. Balderdash (n.), a rapidly receding hairline.
12. Rectitude (n.), the formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.
13. Pokemon (n), a Rastafarian proctologist.
14. Oyster (n.), a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.
15. Frisbeetarianism (n.), (back by popular demand): The belief that, when you die, your Soul
flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.
16. Circumvent (n.), an opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men

The Washington Post's Style Invitational also asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. "Ignoranus": A stupid asshole--is my all-time favorite. Here are this year's winners:

1. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from
penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near
future.
2. Foreploy (v): Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.
3. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent
for an indefinite period.
4. Giraffiti (n): Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
5. Sarchasm (n): The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get
it.
6.. Inoculatte (v): To take coffee intravenously when you are runninglate.
7. Hipatitis (n): Terminal coolness.
8. Osteopornosis (n): A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)
9. Karmageddon (n): It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right?
And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.
10. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that
are good for you.
11. Glibido (v): All talk and no action.
12. Dopeler effect (n): The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you
rapidly.
13. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked
through a spider web.
14. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito that gets into your bedroom at three in the
morning and cannot be cast out.
15. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a grub in the fruit you're eating.
And the pick of the literature:
16. Ignoranus (n): A person who's both stupid and an asshole

There Actually WAS A Steam-Powered Airplane, Circa 1933

DOTOF to my old meat-space pal, Mike Lord.

Doug Stanhope: "Nanna Needs A Ride"

DOTOF to pal and Santa Fe's premiere satirist, Jim Terr:

The Gourmand's Companion

This is an incomplete project which always comes to mind when someone remarks, as if to scorn the quotidian, that they are going to have "BREAKFAST" for dinner. There is NEVER a bad time to have breakfast! And nothing is forbidden for consumption at breakfast, either.

The Gourmand's companion:
1) It is NEVER too late, or too early, to have breakfast.
1a) You may have anything for breakfast your heart desires.
2) You can NEVER have too much for brunch, cuz it's the only meal of the day.
3) Have dessert first: You NEVER know.
4) Chocolate --especially dark-- goes with EVERYTHING.
5) When in doubt, use the second-largest utensil in any set at table.
6) If you start on wine, and want something stronger, later, go with brandy (You'll thank me in the morning.)
7) There is no "bad" way to prepare potatoes.
8) If you MUST choose, buy GOOD beer and cheap whiskey.
9) There is NO "wrong time" to get high.

Feel free to add more as you can think of 'em...

"If Baudrillard Could See Us Now!"

Performed--a bit inartfully--by a bunch of Canadian grad students.


I am sympathetic, because their efforts mirror my own at trying to master the rhetoric and vocabulary of statistics, which I only achieved by writing doggerel.

How 'bout them number-summers, ain't they hams,
Plottin' they freq'ncies on they histograms?
Them n-countin' number-summers got they preculiar pleasures,
Wi' they aspects o' dispersion, an' they deviatin' measures.
Them nomologic number-summers, ain't they hot,
Gettin' all they data in a box-'n'-whisker plot?

How 'bout them number-summers, ain't they strange?
Put they mode, mean an' median in they inter-quart'le range.
They got measures o' dispersion, an' deviation measures,
Deviatin' standards an' other kinds o' treasures.
Them parametric number-summers, ain't they enigmas?
Puttin' they parentheses all around they sigmas.

Good, Clean Fun: "BURQA Girls Gone WILD!"

Magic!: Fitting Three Dimensions into Two

Via New Scientist:

A gravity-defying illusion has won the 2010 Best Illusion of the Year Contest, held yesterday in Naples, Florida.

The visual trick involves a 3D construction of four slopes that appear to extend downwards away from a common centre (see video). When wooden balls are placed on the slopes, however, they bizarrely roll upwards as if a magnet is pulling them.

But the "Impossible Motion" illusion, created by Kokichi Sugihara of the Meiji Institute for Advanced Study of Mathematical Sciences in Kawasaki, Japan, is soon dispelled when it's viewed from a different perspective – each slope is actually sloping downwards towards a common centre.

We're fooled because we make the assumption that each supporting column of the object is vertical, and that the longest column in the centre is the highest. But in reality, the columns and slopes are angled to create the illusion.

Here's another. These things are SOOOO cool.