Holy crap, this Obama guy! First he stone-cold orders the death of Osama bin Laden after Bush and Romney both said it was no big deal, and now he jets off to Afghanistan to wrap that clusterfuck up in a high-profile way. Who does he think he is? The president?
Krugthulhu Versus The King In Yellow Gold
Paul Krugman and Ron Paul, arguing over whose policy cuisine reigns supreme. It’s worth a gander.
This could lead to a fighting or a challenge. Ron Paul repeatedly uses Get Your Socialism Off My Lawn from his stump speeches where he’s still running for Dwarf-in-Chief of Lost Carcosa (he’s short, cranky, good at digging himself into holes and obsessed with obsolete relics and gold), but Kroog’s Mighty Beard Tentacles invade the argument with sanity at several points throughout and he’s clearly having none of Ron’s crap, pointing out that Diggy Diggy Hole’s arguments here have been applied in the real world through austerity cuts and the results have been kind of poopy.
Open thread.
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Tuesday Morning Open Thread: Happy May Day!
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… aka Beltane, or Walpurgisnacht, the festival to mark the start of the bright half of the year. To our agricultural ancestors, it meant the beginning of six months of hard work to ensure that the year-end festival at the beginning of November would celebrate prosperity, or at least the chance of making it through the dark winter. And if that sounds somehow political, well, we humans are a political species…
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Open Thread
As long as I’m linking to io9, I might as well recommend this. No point summarizing, just go read. And chat about whatever.
Totes SFW Explicit Film
I’m still basically on my work/life-compelled blog hiatus, but I could not so abandon the BJ community as to fail to bring to your attention serious-charismatic-megafauna-gettin’-busy video.
Hence, Ladles and Jellyspoons, may I present some awesome rhino porn (h/t ScientificAmerican.com):
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Do read the story framing the clip. There is the suggestion of some significant insights into animal behavior that may — emphasize the tentative there — have real bearing on other conservation/species restoration efforts.
Oh, and I suppose you could consider this the most open-minded of open threads. (And I suppose it is too much to ask to keep it more or less clean in the comment thread? Ah, well.)
PS: Here’s a bonus video of rhino courtship:
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Midday Open Thready Thing
According to the Entire Right Blogothingy, Twitter is apparently the new LAMESTREAM MEDIA (lightning, scary organ music, moose falling from the sky):
Also, The Entire Right Blogothingy consists entirely of Dana Loesch. Open thread.
Monday Morning Open Thread
For those who didn’t have a chance to watch over the weekend, via Paul Constant at the Stranger. I particularly like the ‘Man Show’ joke at the six-minute mark…
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What’s on the agenda for the start of another week?