Great start to 2017.
My neighbor has this sign on her front lawn. She obtained it from a friend who got it in Seattle. There is a URL on the sign but I can't find the sign on the site.
In any case, I love the sentiments it expresses.
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke
"Time spent with cats is never wasted." - Sigmund Freud
Naaahhhhhh....
From the good folks at Citizens UnTied and others.
"Politicians and diapers must be changed often and for much the same reason." - Unknown
From the folks at lolworthy.
“There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.” – Mark Twain
These new ATMs should provide some relief to the beleaguered Greeks....
Who is Katie Hopkins, you ask? Check for yourself.
Looks like our plan to eat more Greek yogurt has not helped much.
"Η φτήνια τρώει τον παρά." - Greek proverb [English equivalent: "If you buy cheaply, you pay dearly."]
From the pen of Chan Lowe.
I like this idea.
I must confess - my great-great grandfather M.A. Emerson was a member of the North Carolina Company K and fought for the Confederacy.
"You can’t claim to be a proud, patriotic American while you honor the flag of the largest treasonous uprising against this country in our history." - Allen Clifton
This was in the Oregonian earlier this week. No need to comment.
"Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem" - Henry Kissinger
"When I finish as the host of 'Jeopardy!' I'm going to go up to Taft in central California. They have a small college there that teaches you about oil drilling." - Alex Trebek
Great graphic from Janis Ian's FB page via Jerry Sehlke.
“The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 9 out of 10 doctors agree that 1 out of 10 doctors is an idiot.” ~ Jay Leno
Why don't I just say I'm 67 today? Just wanted to express it the way my dear, departed Aunt Angela would've done.
In addition to a vintage CD of Bobby Goldsboro's Greatest Hits my wonderful older (by three years) sister Ellen sent me the hilarious card below. But instead of B.G. I'll take this tune any day.
Mary Frances got me three novels - World Gone By by Dennis Lehane, Jazz Palace by Mary Morris, and The Volcano That Changed the World by James W. Mercer.
She knows I love novels but always 'forget' to get them. And I will even be able to read them because of a special gift...
Such an auspicious day, too - got the regular Avastin injection in my right eye so the vision's okay for another 5-6 weeks. And I am so thankful for that! After all, it earned me a free espresso drink at Starbucks!
"My dear, congratulations upon entering your 40th year." - My late Aunt Angela, to my mother on the occasion of her 39th birthday
I took this cartoon from Jerry Coyne's blog.
Kudos to Garry Trudeau.
If you have some time on your hands and want to see some comments by people with far too much time on their hands, read the comments to Jerry's post. I'm incredulous.
1387 - two years before the Battle of Kosovo.
“In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.” – Francis Bacon
From good friend Caroline Ajootian.
Ahh....youthful curiosity!
"Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first.” - Shannon L. Alder
Found on a car at a UK store. Looks like the fashionistas have struck again.
Read more here.
"We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the rising generation. I am an oldster myself and might be expected to take the oldsters' side, but in fact I have been far more impressed by the bad manners of parents to children than by those of children to parents." - C.S. Lewis
So what do you see when you go to carlyfiorina.org? Try this:
You then scroll down past row after row of frowny faces till you reach the end:
I doubt Ms. Fiorina does her own domain-name registration so I can't really call her out for failing to do so. But it does not reflect well upon her campaign, especially for someone who touts her business acumen.
And here is what you get when you visit TedCruz.com:
"If you're not humble, life will visit humbleness upon you." - Mike Tyson, in the New York Observer, via The Week.
No comment is necessary, except for 'How could they be so stupid and thoughtless?'
Read more here.
"Bud Light....the perfect beer for marketers about to lose their job." - Jeff Barrett
Disgusting story of the day: a sick, moronic Texas veterinarian shoots a cat through the head with an arrow, then brags about it on her Facebook page.
I guess her assault rifle wasn't available.
Fortunately, she was fired. Maybe she will have her license suspended.
The story from Digital Journal:
A veterinarian in Texas has been fired after posting a disturbing photo of herself holding a dead cat with an arrow through its head. She boasted about shooting the cat and joked she was the 'Vet of the Year' for doing so.
Kristen Lindsey, 31, of Brenham, Texas was a veterinarian at the Washington Animal Clinic when she stalked an orange cat in her backyard with a bow and arrow and shot it dead through the head.
She posted the photo of her holding the dead cat on Facebook. She boasted of the kill and said it was a feral cat, which it was not. It was a family's cat named Tiger, one that had been missing for two weeks. A video was posted online of a cat on a tractor on a farm and the poster said it was the one Lindsey killed, but there's no confirmation it is the same cat.This is what Lindsey wrote alongside the photo she posted: "My first bow kill...lol. The only good feral tomcat is one with an arrow through it's head. Vet of the year award...gladly accepted."Later, she posted a joke about how she would not be fired for having killed the cat: "And no I did not lose my job," she wrote the second time. "Psshh. Like someone would get rid of me. I'm awesome."
However, as soon as the Washington Animal Clinic heard about the photo and took a look at it, they fired her. Not only did they fire Lindsey but they also roundly condemned her for such a cruel act, making it clear that she won't be welcome back.
"We are absolutely appalled, shocked, upset, and disgusted by this conduct," the clinic wrote on their Facebook page. "We have parted ways with Ms. Lindsey. We do not allow such conduct and we condemn it in the strongest possible manner.
"Please know that when informed of this we responded swiftly and appropriately and please do not impute this awful conduct to the Washington Animal Clinic or any of its personnel."
The now-disgraced vet has also been condemned by the Texas Veterinary Medical Association and by Austin County Sheriff Jack Brandes, who said he would "get to the bottom of it and get the truth, one-hundred percent truth, and get it to the DA and put it in his hands if it needs to go any further."
So though the veterinarian who seems not to care much for cats has not yet been charged for killing Tiger, she may soon be. Meanwhile, a Facebook page called 'Justice for Cat Murdered By Kristen Lindsey' has 17,964 likes and counting.
Maybe Lindsey will learn some kindness and compassion, as well as the difference between 'it's' and 'its'.
Moron...
“We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that the animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect them and love them as we love ourselves.” ― César Chávez
According to the Harvard Business Review, here are other things that employees do on conference calls.
I plead guilty on some occasions. I sometimes 'fiddle around' on the Internet.
My biggest fear after a period of inattention: "Hey, Michael, what's your opinion of that?"
Here is a Huffington Post article on How to Ruin Conference Calls.
“I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.” - Susan Sonntag
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Yeah, this was actually a real movie. I saw it. Undoubtedly, the cause of the mutant spider was radiation....
You know how they killed it? They got the 50-Foot Woman to step on it.
FYI: John Agar was one of Shirley Temple's husbands.
Thanks to Eric Fitch for the sign graphic.
"Some things man was not meant to experiment with." -- Unknown, always uttered by someone in a 1950s horror movie
From friend and colleague Michael van der Valk.
Click on the map to enlarge it.
Here is the story from the Washington Post's Wonkblog.
Funny. Oregon: water? New Mexico: CDL (must be commercial driver's license)?
"Remember -- life is just an eddy in the Second Law of Thermodynamics." - Unknown
I would not have been surprised to see these in certain Texas cities, but not Austin! So much for Austin's vaunted 'liberalism'!
Read about it here.
One man has claimed credit for the stickers, saying he did it to protest gentrification of East Austin. Perhaps he could have taken a different approach.
“Look, let me put it to you this way: the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it.” - Rush Limbaugh
From Ben McKelway's FB page, who got it from Janis Ian's (yes, THAT Janis Ian) FB page.
Reminds me of Al Wilson's great song, The Snake.
"Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar ,and fat." – Alex Levine (via Janis Ian)
TIME magazine is getting grief from some quarters for their recent cover depicting Hillary Clinton with horns. Uh-huh.
The magazine says that 34 other covers have shown the same effect.
Not nearly as bad as the infamous O.J. Simpson 'mug shot' cover:
which should have looked like this (unretouched):
"Beware of stupid people who are motivated and energetic." - Margaret Catley-Carlson
Starbucks recently created a massive faux pas by using these posters of women in traditional Armenian costumes with the crescent and star of the Turkish flag in the background. Duhhh....Can you spell G-E-N-O-C-I-D-E?
Read the story from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
From the story (19 February 2015):
An attempt by U.S. coffee giant Starbucks to appeal to Los Angeles' sizable Armenian population has backfired after its coffee shops displayed posters depicting women dressed in traditional Armenian garb under the crescent and star of the Turkish flag.
The posters were spotted this week in Los Angeles-area Starbucks locations, infuriating activists and social media users who called the image offensive in light of what Armenians refer to as the "genocide" of their people by Turkish Ottoman forces in the early 20th century.
"Why is Starbucks selling coffee using an image of women, dressed in traditional Armenian costumes, celebrating a Turkish state that systematically victimized Armenian women during the Armenian Genocide, and that still denies this crime against all humanity?" the Armenian National Committee Of America (ANCA) wrote in a February 18 post on its Facebook page.
Starbucks quickly apologized and pulled the posters.
'Turkey has the moon and a star on its flag. Are they in Turkey?' - Armenian official, responding to a Turkish official who complained that the Armenian flag has an image of Mt. Ararat, which is in Turkey, not Armenia (but is easily visible from Armenia and just across the border)
Yes, you can read about it here.
"To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit." - Neil deGrasse Tyson
More funny stuff from two perceptive Danes: writer Mikael Wulff and cartoon artist Anders Morgenthaler, collectively known as WuMo. See Part 1 here.
See more here. Click on the images below to enlarge them.
Thanks to Elaine J. Hanford for sending these my way.
Enjoy!
"Enhver meneer hans Kobber er Guld." - Danish proverb ("Every man thinks his own geese swans.")
A couple of creative Danes - writer Mikael Wulff and cartoon artist Anders Morgenthaler, collectively known as WuMo - have created these hilarious graphs of some of the annoyances, facts, and perils of modern life.
See many more here. Click on the images below to enlarge them.
Thanks to Elaine J. Hanford for sending these my way.
Enjoy!
"Den der jager to Harer af een busk, faaer sieden nogen af dem." - Danish proverb ("You must not run after two hares at the same time.")
This story comes from the Daily Kos (thanks to Eric Fitch).
Wash your hands after using the bathroom, right?
Here is a video (link here) of the 'eloquent and substantive' new Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), who opines on the application of free-market economics to employee
handwashing:
If we require restaurants to place signs saying that they do not require their employees to wash their hands after using the bathroom that's regulation, right?
Here is what his website says about the Senator:
Through hard work and dedication Thom quickly moved up the corporate ladder, earning his degree at 36 and becoming a top-level executive at PricewaterhouseCoopers and IBM. Thom’s 22-year private sector career in technology and management consulting has provided him with a deep understanding of policy-making and the management of complex organizations.
Apparently the transmission of germs and disease by dirty hands was not in the cards during his meteoric rise to the U.S. Senate.
And what excellent timing, Senator! I wonder if he vaccinated his children.
My late mother, a proud, intelligent Tar Heeler, must be rolling over in her grave.
Where do they get these guys?
At least Tillis supports clean water.
By the way - an Israeli Twitter follower of mine says they don't use the term 'anti-vaxxer' but 'pro-diseaser' instead. Nice ring to that.
"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives." - John Stuart Mill
From Fast Company.
One would think an infographic would be unnecessary, but for those who need one, Scott Bateman has it. Okay, maybe there is a dose of sarcasm embedded in the diagram. Well, maybe not a dose - more like a gallon.
Click here for a larger graphic.
Funny, I think our society is regressing. I recall when I was young and my parents knew what things like measles, polio, whooping cough, etc., could do to a child, something like this was superfluous.
Oh, yeah - there is a difference between causation and correlation. See today's quote below.
Just in: an Israeli Twitter follower of mine says they don't use the term 'anti-vaxxer' but 'pro-diseaser' instead. Nice ring to that.
"The idea that vaccines are a primary cause of autism is not as crackpot as some might wish. Autism's 60-fold rise in 30 years matches a tripling of the U.S. vaccine schedule." - Jenny McCarthy
Joel Pett of the Lexington (KY) Herald-Leader knows the answer.
"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages." - Thomas Edison
Joel Pett tells it like it's not being told.
"Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future." - Dan Brown
From the Funny Times.
Enjoy!
"I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly." - Winston Churchill
From Michael Leunig via Raul Pacheco-Vega.
"Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company." - Mark Twain
She shoots! She scores?
The Twittersphere is abuzz with Miss Canada Chanel Beckenlehner's costume at the National Costume Show of the Miss Universe Pageant in Coral Gables, FL.
Hey, it's original. But as one wag pointed out, no Canadian team has won the Stanley Cup since 1993.
“I get to go to overseas places, like Canada.” ― Britney Spears
From XKCD. Where else?
"When life gives you lemons, go find a kid with a paper cut and make his life miserable." - Unknown
From the Harvard Business Review.
Here's an Anglo-Dutch translation guide (click on the table to enlarge it):
Glad I don't speak to many Dutch speakers.
“How you look at it is pretty much how you'll see it.” ― Rasheed Ogunlaru
Who could have imagined that this would be the front page of the 14 December 2014 New York Daily News?
Hard to believe that the Newtown massacre is two years old. Still seems like the SOS prevails.
"Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate." - Ted Nugent
"Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror." - Eliot Spitzer
Then there's this one....
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Thanks to Joe Dellapenna and EBook Korner Kafé.
“I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.” - George Carlin
Great way to begin the last month of the year - a post about the evolution of my favorite mammalian quadrupeds. Elaine Hanford sent me the link to the diagram (click on it to enlarge it) and story from Earth Times.
And here is my favorite feline, Galahad (aka 'G-had'), patiently (???) awaiting lunch.
"Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose." - Garrison Keillor
Thanks to Elaine Hanford.
Click on the cartoon to enlarge it.
“It’s always darkest before it becomes totally black.” - Unknown
Thanks to Joe Dellapenna's FB page.
I had pasta at 38,000 feet. Tasted great- thanks to UA.
Click on the graphic to enlarge it.
"Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow." ~ Edward Sandford Martin
From PHD Comics - where else? Via @AcademicsSay.
“I once had a professor who could condense an entire lecture into a can of frozen orange juice. Talk about hard to concentrate.” - Jarod Kintz
Need I say more? From PHD Comics.
“The aim of a PhD is to ensure that no one, including your advisor, understands what you're doing after the first couple of years.” ― China Miéville
From Maps of the World.
Go figure...
My father (Class of 1936) must be rolling in his grave.
"A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tell a baby's temperature. Plus, it really teaches the baby who's boss." - Tina Fey
The differences between Pope Benedict's (2005) and Pope Francis' (2013) first public appearances.
Thanks to Jerad Bales.
"Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful." - Pope Francis
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