If I end up teaching my kids how to drive, I am so doing this:
First time driving with dad and he dressed-up like a crash-test dummy. Can’t stop laughing… pic.twitter.com/Zn4Cwx8quf
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) May 31, 2021
Dressing up as a crash test dummy is brilliant.
For me, it’s farts:
A woman on TikTok has left people in stitches with her story about a time she ripped a fart in a spin class that led to a total evacuation of all people on the premises.
………
“This one time I went to a spin class after a heavy night of drinking and 4am kebabs…”
Then it happened.
“…And I farted a fart that smelled so bad that a girl threw up and they had to evacuate the gym because they thought they had a sewage problem.”
She was apparently glad to finally get it off her chest.
“I was too embarassed to tell them it was just me. So now, eight years later, I’m telling you guys.”
@maximevdd Tell me your greatest fart stories. Can you beat that? #fyp #gym #gymproblems #fart #spinclass #hangover #embarrassing #ohno #fartsfordays #drunk
How is this woman still single? Not mocking her. Women who find farts funny are rare and should be treasured.
Also, it beats my story of Prednisone fueled farts, when I let one site slip out silently that violated the chemical weapons convention at the same time that my my dad loudly farted while we were in the car, and he took the blame from the rest of the family for 15 minutes until I fessed up.
Representative Katie Porter, (D-CA) does her homework, and she knows her numbers, and when she whips out her white board, someone is in for a can of whup ass.
In this case, it was the Richard Gonzalez, the CEO of AbbVie, which is gouging patients for its Humira Arthritis drug.
She showed that the money for R&D is dwarfed by advertising, and executive compensation, particularly that compensation which is driven by stock buybacks:
Or, as Porter observed: “You lie to patients when you charge them twice as much for an unimproved drug, when you tell us that R&D justifies those price increases. The Big Pharma fairy tale is one of groundbreaking R&D that justifies astronomical prices. But the pharma reality is that you spend most of that money making money for yourself and your shareholders.”
Roll the tape, it’s beautiful: (It’s also not that difficult if you aren’t spending 8 hours a day dialing for dollars for your DCCC dues)
Yes, I call them “Rotaries”. You got a problem with that?
Also, no disrespect intended toward the people of eastern Kentucky.
Also, in the US, you turn right and yield to traffic in the circle.
John Oliver is in fine form talking about Tucker Carlson, almost at the level of his legendary take-down of late and unlamented murderous coal mine owner Bob Murray.
Seriously, this is epic:
This is beautiful, and John Oliver is a genius.
I found this on a web crawl. It is profoundly odd:
Too weird not to share.
Also, it shows that “Deep Fakes” might have a bright side.
Just to confirm, yes, this is the theme to Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Senator Sinema a little too happy for poverty wages to remain pic.twitter.com/ze2T2CGtML
Horriffic
It’s one thing to vote against raising the minimum wage, even if you are, as Kyrsten Sinema (D=AZ) is, nominally a member of the Democratic Party.
It’s quite another to show up dressed like a Japanese school girl, and then cast your vote with a thumbs down as one is a roman emperor.
It’s even worse when one sees the unholy glee she expresses in crushing MILLIONS of American workers.
Kyrsten Sinema is even more of a psychopath than is Mitch McConnell.
At least HE has the decency to skulk in the shadows while he does evil.
Sinema revels in the evil that she is doing.
Getting rid of her and Manchin is worth losing the Senate.
A nice morning stretch by a Pallas’s cat caught by a trail camera set in the Daursky nature reserve, south of Trans-Baikal region. Pallas’s cats are some of the world’s most secretive and fluffiest. Video from December 2020 pic.twitter.com/FoXjVUh00u
— The Siberian Times (@siberian_times) March 1, 2021
What an adorable fur-baby.
H/t Naked Capitalism.
John Oliver gets into charter school fraud.
He doesn’t discuss the merits, he just details the extensive history of fraud.
It is beautuful:
I don’t know if you’ve ever lit a ping pong ball on fire, but it’s a rather exciting thing. (I have done so)
They are made from celluloid, the highly flammable material that movie film was once made of, and lighting even one ball can sate the little pyromaniac in many of us.
A truck load of ping pong balls is literally hazardous cargo, which is why the Rio games has moved to “Polyballls”, which contain no celluload.
These are not flammable, and they bounce in much the same way, but they are having some durability issues:
The Olympics is apparently dealing with its own version of deflategate.
Matches in Rio de Janeiro have ended with balls that look like they combusted from being smashed — even though players haven’t changed their pressure in any way. It’s a new and frustrating problem in a game marred by hiccups like a green pool and then, a fart-smelling green pool.
That’s because the official balls of 2016 are made of a new non-celluloid material that inhibits durability, says David Brasfield, a customer service representative at Paddle Palace, the official ball supplier of the United States Table Tennis team. What’s worse is that this problem isn’t limited to the DHS ball that’s being used in Rio de Janeiro; all new polyballs are facing similar ball-busting problems.
Despite the growing pains, the switch to non-celluloid balls was practically a necessity because of the severe fire hazard posed by celluloid balls. “We can now have a large quantity of balls come by air quickly, and we couldn’t have done that before,” points out Brasfield; previously, containers of celluloid balls had to be delivered by hazmat trucks with flammable solid warnings plastered all over them.
Mostly though, I am posting this for the the burning vid. I could watch this all day.
Later, I’ll show you a trick with a dry cleaner bag.
The voice actor, known for Doug and Ren and Stimpy, as well as the voice of Fry, among others, in Fututama.
One of the voices that he did on the latter show was that of Zapp Branigan, the egotistical, incompetent, and misogynist ship commander who once had a fling with Turanga Leela, much to Leela’s chagrin.
Mr. West decided to read Donald Trump quotes as if they were spoken by Zapp Branigan and posted it to Twitter (#MakeAmericaBrannigan), and it is brilliant and amazing.
Donald Trump IS Zapp Branigan.:
Zapp presents…Famous Quotes from Donald J Trump#MakeAmericaBrannigan pic.twitter.com/FnJNn2zIAq— Billy West (@TheBillyWest) August 15, 2016
Billy West is a national treasure.👏 RT @TheBillyWest: ZAPP presents…Famous Trump Quotations!#MakeAmericaBrannigan pic.twitter.com/y14Uxpqo8j— Q. Allan Brocka (@allanbrocka) August 13, 2016
ZAPP presents…Famous Trump Quotations! pic.twitter.com/cFq1rQ4veY— Billy West (@TheBillyWest) August 11, 2016
Zapp (& Kif) present…Famous Quotes from Donald J Trump#MakeAmericaBrannigan pic.twitter.com/JLxemUhRFW— Billy West (@TheBillyWest) August 15, 2016
— Billy West (@TheBillyWest) August 10, 2016
ZAPP presents… Famous Trump Quotations! pic.twitter.com/jGzmsKM9cF— Billy West (@TheBillyWest) August 10, 2016
ZAPP presents…Famous Trump Quotations!#FamousPresidentalQuotes #WednesdayWisdom #ManWithAPlan pic.twitter.com/ztvTa9QVRU— Billy West (@TheBillyWest) August 10, 2016
Zapp presents…Famous Quotations from Donald J Trump#MakeAmericaBrannigan pic.twitter.com/cyDReNPT7U— Billy West (@TheBillyWest) August 11, 2016
Zapp presents…Famous Quotes from Donald J Trump#MakeAmericaBrannigan pic.twitter.com/JUrQvzPHYo— Billy West (@TheBillyWest) August 14, 2016
Zapp presents…Famous Quotes from Donald J Trump#MakeAmericaBrannigan pic.twitter.com/iSimNkFTZ9— Billy West (@TheBillyWest) August 14, 2016
ZAPP presents…Famous Trump Quotations!#MakeAmericaBrannigan pic.twitter.com/guqadM7P02— Billy West (@TheBillyWest) August 12, 2016
Seriously, he’s in EVERYTHING these days.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz has resigned as head of the DNC:
The Democratic National Committee chairwoman resigned under fire Sunday, on the eve of a national convention meant to project competence and unity in contrast to the turbulence of the Republicans’ gathering last week.
The disarray threatened to upend Hillary Clinton’s plan to paint the Democrats as the party best prepared to lead a divided and anxious country and herself as the leader who can offer an optimistic alternative to Republican Donald Trump.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida was forced aside by the release of thousands of embarrassing emails among party officials that appeared to show coordinated efforts to help Clinton at the expense of her rivals in the Democratic primaries. That contradicted claims by the party and the Clinton campaign that the process was open and fair for her leading challenger, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
The news that the DNC was in the tank for Hillary is not really news, but the fact that we now have incontrovertible proof of it was unexpected.
She’s landed on her feet though, as the Clinton campaign has announced that she, “Will serve as honorary chair of her campaign’s 50-state program to help elect Democrats around the country.”
One thing that we can be certain of now is that DWS will never be the Speaker of the House.
I rather hope that this makes it more likely that Tim Canova defeats her in the primary.
In November 2012, The Onion suggested that a Shrieking White-Hot Sphere Of Pure Rage would be the favored Republican nominee in 2016:
Sources say the screaming orb might be the only potential candidate that would tap into Republicans’ deep-seated, seething fury after this election.
Look at the video. The Shrieking White-Hot Sphere Of Pure Rage is indistinguishable from Donald Trump.
The Onion is not staffed by comedians, it is staffed by psychics.
The Republican National Convention has proven such a clusterf%$# that Stephen Colbert revived his conservative pundit parody character for a new episode of The Word:
Stephen Colbert brought back his famous ‘The Word’ segment from his Comedy Central days for his first night of coverage of the Republican National Convention, and he did not disappoint. From ‘Truthiness’ to ‘Trumpiness’, Colbert explained that’s how far we’ve devolved in just a decade.
It was not his best “The Word”, but it was pretty good.
Comedy writers must be in paroxysms of bliss over recent developments.
Saturday’s Tour De France Stage Might Be Infested with Llamas
This does sound like something out of Llamas with Hats.
Karl!!!!!
In this case, Jeremy Corbyn.
Terrorism has increased by 4500% since we overthrew Iraq and Libya and tried to overthrow Syria:
An analysis of terror attacks since 2002 suggests U.S. efforts to combat terrorism — i.e., the “war on terror” — have led to a dramatic increase in death and suffering from terrorism.
Published this year on Sept. 11, Paul Gottinger, a staff reporter for Reader Supported News, analyzed incidents of terrorism from George Bush declaring the war on terror in the aftermath of 9/11 through the present, and found a staggering 6,500 percent increase in terrorism. Gottinger, who used data provided by the State Department in his analysis, found that casualties have increased by 4,500 percent.
Countries occupied by or being bombed the U.S. military seem to fare worst of all:“[F]rom 2007 to 2011 almost half of all the world’s terror took place in Iraq or Afghanistan – two countries being occupied by the US at the time.
Countries experiencing US military interventions continue to be subjected to high numbers of terror attacks, according to the data. In 2014, 74 percent of all terror-related casualties occurred in Iraq, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, or Syria. Of these five, only Nigeria did not experience either US air strikes or a military occupation in that year.”
Further illustrating the devastating impact of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Gottinger’s report showed that terror attacks in that country jumped from 208 in 2002 to 11,000 by 2005.
In a Dec. 10 appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz suggested the Middle East was more stable before the war on terror began.
The thesis that the US is a force for good in the world is simply not supported by the facts.
H/t DC at the Stellar Parthenon BBS.
Because here is literally every TED Talk ever given:
H/t DC at the Stellar Parthenon BBS
It doesn’t get any cooler than playing Hendrix on a gayageum:
Korean artist Luna Lee takes modern songs and gives them a chill twist by playing them on a modified gayageum, an ancient Korean string instrument. On her fundraising page, Lee explains that she modernized the gayageum herself to play contemporary tunes.
We also recommend Luna’s versions of “Back in Black,” “Stairway to Heaven” and “Creep.”
This is awesome.