Dr. Zero: Throughout the long and stagnant years of his presidency, Barack Obama has never missed an opportunity to congratulate himself for doing a swell job of managing the economy. He did it again during the State of the Union address, proudly boasting of having “broken the back of the recession.” Meanwhile, the recession was dragging its hyper-alloy combat endoskeleton up behind him, its red camera eyes fixed with merciless intensity on the jobs it came to terminate, reaching for our throats with its bloodstained metal talons.
Friday, January 28, 2011
Friday stuff
Get her something special for Valentines Day. Here's another suggestion.
Lego art.
Life Without Left Turns.
Chopin's hallucinations caused by epilepsy.
Lego art.
Life Without Left Turns.
Chopin's hallucinations caused by epilepsy.
Tequila Shots Are Done Differently In Sweden.
Debt plus Tetris equals Debtris, with animations for the U.S. and the U.K.
Alien Hand Syndrome - woman attacked by her own hand.
UFO kills off Brazilian fish.
Soldiers seize drug catapult on US/Mexico border.
A history of supercontinents on planet Earth.
I think gin and tonic prevents this: Malaria caught on camera breaking and entering cell.
Custom prosthetic legs.
Who knew? For the last 8,000 years, the wine grape has had very little sex.
The year 2011, according to Thomas Edison in 1911.
Archaeologists claim to have discovered remains of winged humans. Kind of related, What Paris Hilton would have looked like 2 million years ago.
Gallery of Ship Figureheads.
Wanted man performed plastic surgery on himself.
Breathable food.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
A State Insult with Chinese Characteristics, Unnoticed by Obama
I've been reading about this for the last few days, although there's been nothing in the MSM.
American.com: "Although Americans are often tone-deaf to cadences of symbolism in international relations, the Chinese are not. And for Chinese audiences, the symbolism of performing “My Motherland” to a host of uncomprehending barbarians in the White House itself hardly required explanation."
American.com: "Although Americans are often tone-deaf to cadences of symbolism in international relations, the Chinese are not. And for Chinese audiences, the symbolism of performing “My Motherland” to a host of uncomprehending barbarians in the White House itself hardly required explanation."
ObamaCare waivers jump from 222 to 729
At HotAir:
"This ever-expanding list of waivers is the direct result of ObamaCare raising the annual benefit caps on certain health plans. Obviously, a plan with higher annual limits is potentially more costly than one without them. The money to cover the difference in premiums has to come from somewhere. Without the waivers, it will come from the employer who are forced by law to upgrade to the more expensive plan. In other words, the 729 organizations who have received waivers are not seeking refuge from an unintended consequence, but from the costs associated with one of ObamaCare’s features. The real question is what these businesses will do once the waiver program comes to an end."
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Climate change hero: Genghis Kahn
Mother Nature Network: "Over the course of the century and a half run of the Mongol Empire, about 22 percent of the world's total land area had been conquered and an estimated 40 million people were slaughtered by the horse-driven, bow-wielding hordes. Depopulation over such a large swathe of land meant that countless numbers of cultivated fields eventually returned to forests."
Not sure why they left out Stalin and Mao.
Sunday, January 23, 2011
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