This Guy's Bouncing Off the Walls... Literally!

(Source: The Daily Dish)

Girls as Boys and Boys as Girls

These girls are good:

But these guys are MUCH better... sorry ladies:

(Both found via The Daily Dish)

Bedewed Torpid Insects

An absolutely stunning series pictures from a Polish photographer. I wish there were a few more on the website posting them.

(via The Daily Dish)

«And it was worth repeating»

Just click HERE and open your world up to some of the most clever one-liners pronounced by Bea Arthur's character in The Golden Girls, Dorothy Zbornak. FUN!

(The Daily Dish)

Move Over Moses

Article and video below by Christopher Hitchens, found on The Daily Dish.

I especially like this one: 'Turn off that fucking cell phone—you have no idea how unimportant your call is to us.'

Art... Revisited

No comment. Just watch. :)

(Found on The Daily Dish)

Society and Homosexuals: A 1967 Perspective

How far has our society come with regard to its views on homosexuality?

Not far enough, if you ask me, and if you watch the video below from 1967. That goes for the bigots, heterosexuals, and homosexuals alike in this video and in society today.

Found in The Daily Dish.

The Sanctity of Marriage

Marriage is not genuine love, a shared life, commitment, family, children, grandchildren, or any of those silly, sappy, little things; it's a question of anatomical composition—you don't have to use them to have children, but you do need a penis on one person and a vagina on the other. Just that and nothing else.

Source: The Daily Dish

Sarah 'Pinocchio' Palin

Her mendaciousness summarized.

Lord Byron on God

I found an article from The New Yorker in The Daily Dish, mentioning Lord Byron's letters, which are up for auction. In one of them, he apparently tries to convince a reverend friend of his that religion is ridiculous.

As to your immortality, if people are to live, why die? And our carcases, which are to rise again, are they worth raising? I hope, if mine is, that I shall have a better pair of legs that I have moved on these two-and-twenty years, or I shall be sadly behind in the squeeze into Paradise.

Crocodile Tears

Behold, the master of crocodile tears, Glenn Beck:

(Source: The Daily Dish)

The Oldest Organisms on Earth

It is amazing to think that today there exist living things—mostly plants—that were already around at the time of Caesar or even before.... Absolutely astounding....

2,150-year-old Sentinel Tree, Sequoia National Park, CA

(Source: The Daily Dish; Image source & other images here)

Healthcare Reform Questions Answered

Via The Daily Dish, eight frequently asked questions answered on The Washington Post.

Media Matters, as always, doing a good job of debunking right-wing lies and exposing their fraudulent claims in a Q & A rubric.

Questions about the public option answered concisely and precisely by Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor under president Clinton.

Visualizing Music

I found a video of Beethoven's 5th Symphony on The Daily Dish and followed it all the way to youtube. The user who posted it has an impressive number of musical pieces set in animation.

Of course, I was lucky enough to find my favorite piece by Beethoven, 7th Symphony 2nd movement. It is absolutely mesmerizing and sounds as funereal as I want it to sound at my funeral.

The Iron Lady Had a Rusty Interior

I just read on The Daily Dish that Margaret Thatcher wanted to prevent the reunification of Germany, and pleaded with Gorbachev to try to do the same. To learn more, read the original article in The Times, as well as the transcript of the newly disclosed Thatcher-Gorbachev conversation from the same source. The stance against the reunification of Germany is made known on page 2 of that transcript.

Bookishness

Schools across the country are revolutionizing the way students read for school. Instead of assigning them books, many school districts or individual teachers are choosing to give students a wide array of options or a complete carte blanche on their reading pick. It is showing some promise.

On related news, which I found through The Daily Dish, Google estimates that, at present, there are 168,178,719 books titles that have been published in the history of the world.

Healthcare Reform Myths

The Daily Dish considers the issue of coverage for illegal immigrants and how it's being viewed in the blogosphere. There are provisions for legal immigrants, but none for illegal immigrants, despite popular right-wing nonsense claiming the contrary.

Healthcare Reform Made Easy

I found this napkin explanation of healthcare via The Daily Dish.

The illustrator, Dan Roam, is apparently known for his napkin explanations of things and phenomena. I was able to find the slide show below describing healthcare reform issues. It conveniently shows all the napkins in one place and you can even make it into a full-screen presentation. The pictures and explanations really get to the important things and explain them in a way that is accessible to many. Highly recommended.

America's Voice on Healthcare

For a few weeks now, Andrew Sullivan of The Daily Dish (yes, I read conservative bloggers, too) has been culling and publishing accounts from readers on their experiences with healthcare in the United States. Today, he (or his substitute, rather) posted a collection of all those accounts on one page for practical viewing. It is definitely worth taking a look at.

His readers' feedback has been mixed at times, but the overall tone has been one of dissatisfaction. Most of them describe trials and tribulations stemming from the current state of the system, rather than appreciation for it.

Naked Aquatic Bipeds

I found the video below via The Daily Dish. It puts forth the hypothesis that, unlike previously thought, man might have evolved from aquatic animals rather than the ape family. It does seem plausible, but I am sure nothing will be confirmed for a long while.