I have no idea what this has to do with Valentine’s Day, it just seemed appropriate.
This clip from a Belgian comedy show makes me very glad I’ve never seen an uncircumcised penis in person.
Being a selection of politicky stuff that I found particularly annoying, amusing, or both this week:
Monday:
Republican Token Negro National Committee Chairman Michael Steele thinks Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid should step down over a “racist” remark.
“There is this standard where the Democrats feel that they can say these things and they can apologize when it comes from the mouths of their own,” Steele said on “Fox News Sunday.” “But if it comes from anyone else, it’s racism. It’s either racist or it’s not. And it’s inappropriate, absolutely.”
Absolutely! Two years ago, Reid said something to the effect that Obama’s light skin and good diction could help him with voters. That was very racist against mouth-breathing hillbillies who are afraid of dark-skinned, Negro-dialect speaking black people.
[L.A. Times]
Tuesday:
Teabagger spokesmodel Sarah Palin made her debut as a commentator on Faux News, and also called Harry Reid a racist. Well, not technically, but she might as well have.
“Palin told [Bill] O’Reilly she does not think Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid is racist, but neither was former Republican leader Trent Lott.”
If Trent Lott wasn’t a racist, then clearly “not a racist” actually means “thinks the niggers rightly ought to shut up and go back to picking cotton without pay,” which makes Harry Reid a Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon in Ass-Backwards Land.
[USA Today]
Wednesday:
* President Obama unveiled a plan to bitch-slap about $120 billion of taxpayer bailout money back out of the banks over the next ten years.
“The politics on this is really quite easy,” said Doug Elliott, a fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington and a former managing director at JPMorgan Chase & Co. “The public would be supportive of anything up to shooting and burning the bankers.”
The President will no doubt laugh and laugh, while the Republicans squirm around desperately trying to find a way to stop him without looking like banker-cock-sucking asswipes.
[Businessweek]
* Pat Robertson demonstrates his bottomless well of sympathy for his fellow humans by saying the earthquake was the Haitians’ own fault, because God is mad at them for not being slaves anymore.
The Haitian Revolution (which helped end slavery in the Western Hemisphere), was actually a pact with Satan, according to Pat Robertson, and Haiti has been cursed for the last 200 years as a result. Un-fucking-believable. There are 50,000 people dead and hundreds of thousands more will probably die, in a country where poor people already are literally eating dirt, and a hateful old vulture says they were asking for it. I cannot think of anything even remotely funny to say about this.
Thursday:
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs called Pat Robertson an insensitive dumbass.
Of course, this just proves that Democrats hate Teh Baby Jeebus.
Friday:
There’s a vacuous bigot thinking about running for president in 2012, and it’s not Sarah Palin.
Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum confirmed to his supporters Friday what pundits have been speculating for months – the conservative Republican is actively considering a run for president in 2012.
The idea of a GOP presidential candidate whose name is inextricably linked to gay sex butt juice leakage amuses me greatly.
[CNN Political Ticker]
[Santorum]
On a serious note, for a wealth of information about Haiti and what you can do to help, check out this article at Direct Democracy.
I found some old photo albums while I was looking for something else, and stumbled over before and after pictures of me eating chocolate for the first time, when I was a wee little. Here I am, unwrapping a Hershey kiss. Note the skeptical expression, which is unbecoming in a two-year-old.
…and a lifelong love affair begins.
When somebody takes my picture, I’m usually either smirking because somebody told me to smile, or looking solemn (or glum, or dyspeptic), but not THIS time. That smile was spontaneous, genuine, and positively radiant. So if you ever wanna see me smile that way again, GIVE ME CHOCOLATE, DAMMIT.
Edit: I just noticed that the applique on my jumper is a not-very-Christmasy tomahawk wielding little Indian racially insensitive portrayal of a Native American. Gotta love the 60s.
Here’s a delightful animated short film in which a timid fellow has an encounter on the bus with a decidedly unpleasant goldfish. Of course, my idea of delightful is dark and twisted.
It won Best Australian Film at the Melbourne Animation Festival in 2007, and the creator, Chris Jones made it entirely by himself. Genius.
Astronomer, author and philosopher Carl Sagan would have turned 75 years old today. He was best known to the public for his amazing ability to make science understandable and interesting both to non-nerds and potential nerds (children) with the Cosmos series on PBS.
However, he wasn’t just some endearingly odd-sounding science guy on TV, he was also a Professor of Astronomy and Space Science and Director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies at Cornell University, and played a big part in establishing the SETI (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) program; he was a Pulitzer Prize winning author, and simply one of the
smartest.
people.
ever.
It really REALLY sucks that he’s dead. Watch him explain the fourth dimension:
I’m sure I looked comical, psychotic, or both, as I stalked this monarch butterfly around a lantana bush. I hope the neighbors didn’t notice, but fat chance.
I don’t see monarchs around here very often, so I was hellbent on getting at least one decent shot. Honestly, I don’t see many butterflies of any kind anymore at all. Or bees. Or any of the other useful insects that pollinate flowers. Okay, time for another pretty picture, before somebody (probably me) dissolves into tears about the imminent demise of all life on earth.
Have a nice day!