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Friday, June 19, 2009
YouTube Funny on Friday: That Bad Tattoo
This guy nails it, but, damn, who the fuck falls asleep during a tattoo?
Answer: NO ONE.
Except a whiny girl who "wanted to be different" and was transformed into "WTF" by showing that art to her father and boyfriend.
Like my t-shirt: Tool. Not the band, I'm just a tool.
Yoda as well: Do or do not; there is no try.
Answer: NO ONE.
Except a whiny girl who "wanted to be different" and was transformed into "WTF" by showing that art to her father and boyfriend.
Like my t-shirt: Tool. Not the band, I'm just a tool.
Yoda as well: Do or do not; there is no try.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Quickie: Iran and Conspiracy
So Israel's had their panties in a jam to bomb the hell out of Iran for a while now. And then Iran has to go and get all election-y and potentially be "not so bad" in the near future. So Israel and probably the CIA or NSA quietly digs their claws into Iran, undermines the election so that everyone's favorite devil - Ahmadinejad - is solidly in place and all is well and good and back to par. The status quo remains and Israel's bombs can fall.
Not sure how N. Korea's shenanigans are going to factor into that, but it can't be good.
Not sure how N. Korea's shenanigans are going to factor into that, but it can't be good.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Smokers Should Go Fuck Themselves
[I am a smoker - run through a pack in about a week, in a night if I'm drinking heavily.]
Humana, here in Cincinnati and elsewhere, is saying NO to hiring smokers.
Obviously, over the course of time, some smokers take advantage of their smoke breaks, some smokers rack up sick days and some of those days have to do with smoking.
But as the comments - and my own opinion - suggest, people who are overweight log more sick days too. I guess we need to not hire fat people. And people with kids use their sick days to stay home with their kids when their two-working-parent home would otherwise be vacated. We should probably not hire people with kids either.
I understand the logic, but am terrified at the slippery slope we are working at.
How do we resolve these ideas? How do I resolve them in my own head?
Humana, here in Cincinnati and elsewhere, is saying NO to hiring smokers.
Obviously, over the course of time, some smokers take advantage of their smoke breaks, some smokers rack up sick days and some of those days have to do with smoking.
But as the comments - and my own opinion - suggest, people who are overweight log more sick days too. I guess we need to not hire fat people. And people with kids use their sick days to stay home with their kids when their two-working-parent home would otherwise be vacated. We should probably not hire people with kids either.
I understand the logic, but am terrified at the slippery slope we are working at.
How do we resolve these ideas? How do I resolve them in my own head?
Where's the Crack? ...or Just Twitter Maintenance
Twitter is down right now. And I can't even tweet about how Twitter is down and how that sucks. What do I do? I'll blog about how Twitter is down and I can't tweet about how it's down. I'd tell you to follow me on Twitter, but you couldn't right now.
And the void swirls, I am left without balance.
"Things fall apart; the center cannot hold" - Yeats.
And the void swirls, I am left without balance.
"Things fall apart; the center cannot hold" - Yeats.
Invisible Rope Prank
Another video to belay the thought process involved in writing about health care and smokers' rights.
EMBED-Invisible Rope Prank II - Watch more free videos
(h/t Manolith)
EMBED-Invisible Rope Prank II - Watch more free videos
(h/t Manolith)
Captain Picard Day
Someone over at the Something Awful Forums declared today, June 16th as Captain Picard Day, referencing this video.
A link to The Captain Picard Song also emerged and reminded me that it is required viewing. Enjoy!
And have a happy Captain Picard Day!
A link to The Captain Picard Song also emerged and reminded me that it is required viewing. Enjoy!
And have a happy Captain Picard Day!
Monday, June 15, 2009
This is Really Happening
Radiohead. Idioteque.
Any questions?
We're not scare mongering
This is really happening
Happening
We're not scare mongering
This is really happening
Happening
Mobiles quirking
Mobiles chirping
Take the money and run
Take the money and run
Take the money
Any questions?
On That Chicago Chick WITHOUT a Dead Baby
So a woman in Chicago started a blog about her pregnancy. The baby had a terminal illness and to die quickly after birth. But she would still have the baby. And anti-abortion nutters went gaga. Juicy fucking emotive gaga.
And then she published a picture of her and the newborn and concluded the story saying that the child had died. At least one of her readers owned the same creepy, lifelike newborn doll (surprise!), and called out shenanigans. And then it unraveled. You can read April Rose Mom Beccah Beushausen's apology, which is all that is left of the blog, here.
Beccah says she actually did lose a child in 2005 and that this was her finding that voice, a way to deal with that loss. But that's not the interesting part.
The right wing, anti-abortion zealots who had found a poster child, a patsy, an exemplar of their beliefs, are outrageously pissed. She betrayed their trust, made a mockery of their convictions, blah blah blah. And from what I've read, the left wing, surprisingly, is not soaking in the schadenfreude, but bitching their own sanctimonious bullshit about how awful it was to get the right wing, anti-abortion zealots all worked up over a false prophet. [NOTE: I'm guessing the glurge from the left is only emerging now because, like me, most of us only heard about this once the hoax became public and if we'd heard about the blog before we wouldn't have given it 5 seconds of our time.]
To both sides: stop your fucking whining.
To the right: You're the same mess that goes into depression in week 10 of Survivor because after the merge, the cute guy from Boston wasn't the tried-n-true person you thought he was. You got suckered. Get the hell over it. If you spend that much time on the internet and don't know that you're probably reading or viewing something that's potentially not true dozens of times a day, you deserve the emotional punch. It's the internet! Someone started a blog and started a story, played a role. There are no guarantees that anything is real. Hell, my name's not really Ricky Shambles! Gasp! And instead of doing something for real about your beliefs, you hung your hat on baby April, your sacrificial lamb. That's right; Beccah was just the vessel, and the fact that the vessel would allow that child to come into the world and potentially suffer a great deal before quickly dying rang a bell in some sick, sad part of you, justified that anti-abortion-under-any-circumstance bit that you're irrationally and desperately holding on to.
And then none of it was real. And your beliefs are hanging nowhere. And in a completely viable act of mob-rule ego-protection, you exhibit anger and flap the naive flag that all is not what it seems on the internets. Stop. You're compounding your foolishness.
To the left: Anything you say right now about being angry at Beccah is muddying the very clear whine of a million outraged suckers. Stop.
Keyboard cat, play the fools out...
And then she published a picture of her and the newborn and concluded the story saying that the child had died. At least one of her readers owned the same creepy, lifelike newborn doll (surprise!), and called out shenanigans. And then it unraveled. You can read April Rose Mom Beccah Beushausen's apology, which is all that is left of the blog, here.
Beccah says she actually did lose a child in 2005 and that this was her finding that voice, a way to deal with that loss. But that's not the interesting part.
The right wing, anti-abortion zealots who had found a poster child, a patsy, an exemplar of their beliefs, are outrageously pissed. She betrayed their trust, made a mockery of their convictions, blah blah blah. And from what I've read, the left wing, surprisingly, is not soaking in the schadenfreude, but bitching their own sanctimonious bullshit about how awful it was to get the right wing, anti-abortion zealots all worked up over a false prophet. [NOTE: I'm guessing the glurge from the left is only emerging now because, like me, most of us only heard about this once the hoax became public and if we'd heard about the blog before we wouldn't have given it 5 seconds of our time.]
To both sides: stop your fucking whining.
To the right: You're the same mess that goes into depression in week 10 of Survivor because after the merge, the cute guy from Boston wasn't the tried-n-true person you thought he was. You got suckered. Get the hell over it. If you spend that much time on the internet and don't know that you're probably reading or viewing something that's potentially not true dozens of times a day, you deserve the emotional punch. It's the internet! Someone started a blog and started a story, played a role. There are no guarantees that anything is real. Hell, my name's not really Ricky Shambles! Gasp! And instead of doing something for real about your beliefs, you hung your hat on baby April, your sacrificial lamb. That's right; Beccah was just the vessel, and the fact that the vessel would allow that child to come into the world and potentially suffer a great deal before quickly dying rang a bell in some sick, sad part of you, justified that anti-abortion-under-any-circumstance bit that you're irrationally and desperately holding on to.
And then none of it was real. And your beliefs are hanging nowhere. And in a completely viable act of mob-rule ego-protection, you exhibit anger and flap the naive flag that all is not what it seems on the internets. Stop. You're compounding your foolishness.
To the left: Anything you say right now about being angry at Beccah is muddying the very clear whine of a million outraged suckers. Stop.
Keyboard cat, play the fools out...
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