Animal Farm Friday 2 - Just Deserves! (Warning: Graphic Photo!)

Fuck you, matadors! Mess with the bull, get the mother fucking horn to the face!

Painting for Prophet

Animal Farm Friday - Monkey Love

This touches me, deeply.

Animal Farm Friday - Snakes Are Cool!

You've got to read this to believe it! Just how they created the study is worth the read!

So spitting cobras defend themselves by initially tracking an aggressor's movements. However, at the instant that an attacker triggers the cobra into spitting, the reptile switches to predicting where the attacker's eyes will be 200 ms in the future and aims there to be sure that it hits its target.

Thanks for paying your taxes...

Things you find in a closet

Farewell, Bill Moyers. Happy Retirement!

Bill Moyers sadly signed off for the last time at The Journal this past Friday. This quote is from that show:

Ed Murrow told his generation of journalists bias is okay as long as you don't try to hide it. So here, one more time, is mine: plutocracy and democracy don't mix. Plutocracy, the rule of the rich, political power controlled by the wealthy.

Plutocracy is not an American word but it's become an American phenomenon. - Bill Moyers, from his final broadcast at The Journal

Thank you, Mr. Moyers. Farewell!

Cure for PTSD - Good or Bad?

With nothing more than a little prick in the neck, post-traumatic stress disorder can be mostly cured, making it possible for soldiers to endure the horrors of combat without any of the lasting side-effects that should - ya know, in an ideal world - help to prevent such horrors from ever taking place.

But a small new study out of Walter Reed Army Medical Center might offer more than temporary relief — with nothing more than a quick jab to the neck.

It’s a procedure called stellate ganglion block (STB), and involves injecting local anesthetic into a bundle of nerves located in the neck. The bundle are a locus for the sympathetic nervous system, which regulates the body’s “fight-or-flight” stress response.

I'm all for helping soldiers ease their suffering, but this seems like a panacea to the Pentagon, one that could make them more likely to send soldiers into harms way since they don't have to worry about any lingering post-combat side-effects.

Animal Farm Friday - Soy Milk or Soy - wait! WTF?

Sorry. No non-human animals in this funny news clip of what else to call soy milk (or rice milk, etc.) instead of "milk".

The video is funny, but the topic pisses me off. I don't personally care for soy milk, or rice milk, or even milk from a cow generally speaking. But I hate the National Milk Producers Federation and other dairy organizations like them, for many, many reasons that I won't go into here, and this specific topic is one of them. Those jerks are as bad as cigarette companies when it comes to greed and general evilness. Attacking competitors in such a shameless way is clear evidence. I wonder when they'll start going after Milk of Magnesia.

Illegal Immigrants?

Art from Garbage

Believe it or not, this:



is made from this:



For more stunning examples of art made from the by-products of our excessive consumerism, check out the amazing work by Chris Jordan, a Seattle-based photographer (and former corporate lawyer).

On the Humanity and Inhumanity of American Soldiers in Combat

If you've seen the video of the massacre in Baghdad, where US forces are shown murdering innocent civilians, you know how gut-wrenching that situation was. The following article is no less gut-wrenching, but it sheds more light on the events of that day, and offers more detail on the humanity - and the inhumanity - of American soldiers in combat.

Iraq war veteran Ethan McCord, who is seen running with an Iraqi child in his arms in the video posted by WikiLeaks of a July 2007 massacre of civilians in Baghdad..., together with another former member of the company, Josh Stieber, have addressed an open “Letter of Reconciliation” to the Iraqi people taking responsibility for their role in this incident and other acts of violence.

I highly recommend reading the full interview.

Moohammed

Moehammed

"Man, you go through life, you try to be nice to people, you struggle to resist the urge to punch 'em in the face, and for what?" - Moe "Hammed" Syzlak

Animal Farm Friday - Flock? Herd? Pack? Pride?

A sample of the video footage I took with my GoPro Hero HD camera while swimming with some friends and some friendly sea lions off Anacapa in the Channel Islands last weekend.

So which is it, a flock of sea lions? A herd of sea lions? A pack of sea lions? A pride of sea lions?

FFRF FTW!

Freedom From Religion Foundation for the win!

Reagan’s Prayer Ritual Finally Ruled Unconstitutional

On Thursday, April 15, 2010, SR U.S. District Court Judge Barbara B. Crabb ruled that the National Day of Prayer Proclamation, instituted by Ronald Reagan in 1988, is unconstitutional. Freedom From Religion Foundation v George W. Bush was filed in Wisconsin in 2008 and has been progressing through the courts since that time. The subsequent ruling in the case was filed as Freedom From Religion Foundation v Barrack Obama & Robert Gibbs to reflect the change in administration after the 2008 elections. Judge Crabb explained her decision by stating that “…[the National Day of Prayer's] goes beyond mere ‘acknowledgement’ of religion because its sole purpose is to encourage citizens to engage in prayer, an inherently religious exercise that serves no secular function in this context.” She continued, “In fact, it is because the nature of prayer is so personal and can have such a powerful effect on a community that the government may not use its authority to try to influence an individual’s decision whether and when to pray.”

It totally boggles my mind that it took so long for this ruling to come. There are few things so black and white in the Constitution as the separation of church and state.

Holding Representatives Accountable

This is in the UK, but it would be awesome to have here, especially a handy tool like this!

That just about says it perfectly...

Animal Farm Friday - Size Matters!

Well, duh!

Animal Farm Friday Extra Shot - Good Doggy!

(tip to Ryan for sending that on)