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Your Body and Your Government (YouTube, via VideoSift)

OH BOO HOO

The NCAA’s executive committee on Friday rejected appeals by Illinois, North Dakota and Indiana University of Pennsylvania to continue using Indian nicknames, mascots and imagery deemed “hostile” and “abusive” at NCAA championship events.
NCAA Declines 3 Appeals on Indian Mascots (AP)
NCAA upholds Chief restrictions (News-Gazette)
This comment thread on IlliniPundit is pretty entertaining. My fave so far: […]

YEESH

I kind of wish I hadn’t seen this, but now I have, and so you have to as well. (And if you don’t get it, you’re probably not a big giant nerd who even owns a nicely bound atlas of Middle Earth. Like me.)

“LIKE, I SAW A DEAD BIRD AND IT WAS JUST, LIKE

…it was like a sign of, you know, um, like, the entropy in our society, and how everything is falling apart, and, like, birds are dying…”

Emo Girl (YouTube)

MIDDLE CLASS LOOKING POORER AND POORER

Forty-one percent of adults with incomes between $20,000 and $40,000 a year did not have health insurance for at least part of 2005, up from 28 percent without coverage in 2001, according to the report by the Commonwealth Fund, a New York-based health care policy foundation.
The report illustrates how employers are dropping health coverage or […]

PUT DOWN THE COFFEE BEFORE YOU WATCH THIS

“If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can exhume them, maybe you can hire…The Rising.”

The Rising (Langerland; NSFW language)

COFFEE GRINDER AND EGG SLICER TOTALLY WIN

BUNNYOCALYPSE: The Marshmallow Bunny Apocalypse

WALK IN THE SHADOW

“Chaiyya Chaiyya” (YouTube)
The opening song in Dil Se, and one of the most fun dance sequences ever; certainly the best ever shot on a moving train. I first saw this video with my daughter* a couple years ago, and today the Morning News reminded me of it.
* In Harlem, the night we got awesome and […]

YOU KNOW WHAT?

There are far too many recipes for bacon cookies on the intarwub, and many of them are not intended for dogs.

THE GOAT IS ON THE POLE!

Goatonapole is the philosophy of being that holds that there is a Goat and a Pole and that the Goat is on the Pole. In the relation of Goat and Pole we Goatonapolists find an eternal thread of unfathomable cosmic significance, a point of reference in which all opposites dissolve into a unity of infinite […]