What'd you expect?

(AFP/Yoav Lemmer)

People always get drunk if there are free drinks on international flights.
"Waasssuup, Ayhood."

He always liked to jump

REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang

Evel Kneivel reincarnated as a frog. Now he can do some real jumping. I do miss the flag-themed costume....

Hot enough for you?

From http://keetsa.com

I'm getting more warmed about this climate change thing. Excuse the pun.
This article is worth reading if for nothing but the title.

If Only Gay Sex Caused Global Warming

I find it's not enough for me to know about it, but I need to know how to rebut skeptics. I even got a troll in the comments on the video I posted the other day.

George Bush has the Blog

REUTERS/Oleg Popov

Yes, it's true. Go here. "I see the salt shaker, whar's the tequila?"

Separated at birth?

I know whose political advice I'd be more inclined to follow. And besides Fiona is much hotter than Mary Matalin. (See Morse for another take.)

The Man who never was?

From Think Progress:

Fox News edits Ron Paul out of AP story.

Fox News recently excluded anti-war conservative Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) from its New Hampshire presidential debate. Libertarian Underground reports that Fox has now edited out Ron Paul’s name from an AP story posted on its website:

From the International Herald Tribune:

From Fox News:

Has Winston Smith landed a job at Fox? His experience as a clerk at the Ministry of Truth would certainly qualify him. I'm no fan of Paul, but dropping him down the memory hole is a little drastic.

Your chance to vote in New Hamshire

Marty for NH Top Cat

Yes, even you can vote in New Hampshire today. This is a vote that really means something. I've shown my candidate above. He had me at "free fish heads for everyone."
Vote here. You'll be glad you did. Via Why Now?

Watch this and share it

All right gang, I get a whopping twenty something visitors a day to this modest effort. I want all of you to watch this video. You are then to put it on your own site or link to this one. And tell others to get the word out!

Too much fun

I'm a couple of days behind, but I found these entertaining at Tengrain's place

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Why do I always miss the good parties?

BERND KAMMERER / AP

Looks like another republican may be getting ready to spend more time with his family....

Where there's smoke, there's evidence

(AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Doggone, cheap-ass imported shredders overheated again.

Story here in case you missed it. The Eisenhower Executive Office Building by the White House was visited by the fire fairy this morning.

(My grandmother loved fires, she used to follow fire trucks so she could watch.)

Bush to sign energy bill

"Raisin' CAFE standards, heheheheheh. ('cept fur mah truck and SUVs)"

"CAFE standards, now we'll have good places to eat like that Frenchie snarky Sarky, and we'll have an absinthe-only policy. heheheh."

"Gotta go work on a six-fold increase in my ethanol consumption, whar's the Wild Turkey?"

Man of the Year

Baa, humbug, I say!

Actually, he is no less deserving than anyone else I suppose. I just wanted an excuse to use this picture. For more pictures of Putin with animals, go to this link at Pravda.

Healthcare -- Quote of the day

From the resistance is futile department:

"(blah, blah, blah, health insurance company) ain't cheap. With a high deductible we still have to cough up $760 a month. (It's like having to make two car payments every month, but you don't get the cars.)"

You should read the whole thing at The Smirking Chimp.

99.44% snark free

The 'bullet holes' in this tusk are
found only on the skyward side.
Firestone et al.

This story from Nature is just amazing.

Mammoth tusks show up meteorite shower
Fossils could provide a new gold mine for micrometeorite hunters.
Rex Dalton
Bullet-like pieces of what is thought to be an ancient meteorite shower have been found embedded in mammoth tusks and bison bone. The discovery of the 2–5 millimetre holes left by meteorites opens a window into a impact event thought to have happened over Alaska and Russia tens of thousands of years ago. And it could provide a whole new way to chart impacts from space.

The fragments, found in seven mammoth tusks and the skull and horns of a Siberian bison, match the geochemical composition of iron meteorites. "We think that the micrometeorites came from an air-burst of a meteor 30,000 to 34,000 years ago," says Richard Firestone, co-author of the study and a chemist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California. "We think a wave of meteoric material sprayed the region."

May I recommend that you take a reinforced umbrella if you venture outside on Thursday night. See related story here about the Geminids.