Watch Out, Cherry Coke

Green Tea Coca-Cola.

You know you want it, you soda slurping health nuts.

With catechins! Yum!

Apocalypse Watch : Day 721,006

NASIRIYAH, Iraq (AFP) – A plague of snakes has caused panic in Iraq's southern province of Nasiriyah, biting cattle and worrying residents as poisonous reptiles flee their dens in the country's water-deprived marshes.

-AFP

Going faster than a Roller Coaster...

Sci Fi Saturday Matinee

Font Fun

Course I would have gone with Battlestar: Courier, cuz Helvetica is way Cylony...

Reason # 1084 Why I Thank God I Don't Live In Texas

The Supreme Court has turned away a challenge from a death row inmate in Texas who claimed his constitutional rights were violated by jurors who consulted a Bible during deliberations.

Jurors reviewed a biblical passage relating that a murderer who used an iron object to kill "shall surely be put to death." They were deciding whether to impose a death sentence on Khristian Oliver for fatally shooting and bludgeoning his victim with the barrel of a gun.

The court previously has said that jurors should base their verdicts only on evidence presented in the courtroom.

(AP)

The Dark Side of Biz School Management

Beware, Helicopter Ben, Beware.

"Not Sponsored by Fox"

Fox donates $500,000 in free ads to Tea Bag movement.
But is "not sponsoring" the event.
I wish someone would not sponsor me to the tune of half a mill.
And why exactly is a news organization getting away with overt, biased propaganda events?
Does the FCC and the FTC even do anything for the public good anymore?

http://mediamatters.org/items/200904170011?f=h_latest

A Student of History

"Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression,"
-Texas' Republican Gov. Rick "Don't Let The Door Hit You In Your Ass On The Way Out" Perry

Not counting Spain, France, Mexico, The USA, and the Union Army, that is.

Wasn't even true when Houston said it.

Wacka Wacka Wacka

The only dick amidst the chaos?
A golfer.
What a shock.

Holy Crap!

By the Blessed name of Creosote

"It would be unfair to prosecute dedicated men and women working to protect America for conduct that was sanctioned in advance by the Justice Department,"

- Atty General Eric Holder

So let me get this straight, "I was only following orders" is now a viable defense in the United States?

Somebody fetch me a bucket.

I'm going to puke.

"It would be unfair to prosecute dedicated men and women working to protect Germany for conduct that was sanctioned in advance by the SS,"

- - Ernst Kaltenbrunner
(the above quote is satire, for the irony impaired)

They Really Really Need To Read The Memo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJwcqW7vIXI


Ah, Japan...
such a sweet mixture of backwards, forwards, and total batshit...

That was a Close One

2.5 Earthquake not such a big deal.

Epicenter less than a mile from mi casa, however...

Yikes!

Easter Nerdvana

Doctor Who AND Red Dwarf?

I feel faint...

As if the Financial Crisis Wasn't Enough

Nasa captures image of cosmic hand in space:



That looks alot like this iconic DC Comics "Crisis" image:



I guess Grant Morrison really wasn't kidding around this time.

OSS 117 is Back!

and speaking of back:

Hughes Meet Romero

Japanese TV show pranks tots with Zombie attack.
Now that's what I call ADORABLE!
(via Japan Probe)

Finally, the Attention He Deserves

Top Bush advisor denounces Spanish torture probe

WASHINGTON (AFP) — A former top US government advisor who faces possible indictment in Spain for his role in establishing the Guantanamo Bay prison camp described the case against him as "outrageous."

-AFP

Shocked I Tell You, Shocked!

Jindal's staff now admits that that actually didn't happen. Instead of being there and being part of the story, Jindal's reps now admit that days later Jindal overheard Lee telling the story to someone else. And Jindal retold the story he'd been told while inserting himself into it as part of the story.

-tpm

Jindal Moonlights As Devilslayer

"in an essay Jindal wrote in 1994 for the New Oxford Review, a serious right-wing Catholic journal, Jindal narrated a bizarre story of a personal encounter with a demon, in which he participated in an exorcism with a group of college friends. And not only did they cast out the supernatural spirit that had possessed his friend, Jindal wrote that he believes that their ritual may well have cured her cancer."

-TPM

Wonder if he knows Palin's Witchhunter?

Palin & Jindal 2012: Exorcize Your Rights!

PJF: 1918-2009

I can think of no other writer who had as much an impact on my young intellectual and aesthetic development as PJF.

Thanks, Phil.

Attn: Academy

a filmmaker after my own heart...

This Just In

SHANGHAI (AFP) – A married Chinese tycoon who could no longer afford to support his five mistresses during the economic slowdown held a contest to decide which one to keep, local media reported Tuesday.

The contest took a tragic turn when one of the mistresses, who was eliminated based on her looks, drove her former lover and the four other women off a mountain road in an apparent fit of anger, the Shanghai Daily reported.

- China tycoon's mistress contest ends in tragedy: report

Another one for the "No one could have seen that coming file..."