Archive for the ‘It’s Always a Good Time to include Sheldon Cooper PhD’ Category

Veeshir seems to have taken up the mantle of doing roundup-style posts since I’ve mostly abandoned blogging, but every once in a while I still will need to clear out my bookmarks…

Moe Lane: “The essential problem with the Chuck Hagel nomination.” – Moe is too kind, but basically on-point.

Everything the O-bots told you about Obamacare was a lie.  We informed you thusly.

Wounded Warrior Project rejects church’s fundraising efforts. So I guess the ads singing “Say a prayer for peace” were entirely secular prayers to nobody in particular, or something.  (“… one or more gods, or fewer…”)

A nice long write-up about the hubbub in Mali.

Reason: No, WWII did end the Depression.

Pending debt crisis link #1.

Pending debt crisis link #2 (Pethokoukis @ AEI).

PIMCO’s Bill Gross on the “Credit Supernova“.

Happy days are here again: No-money-down mortgages are back, baby! (Facepalm)

Daily Caller: Obama’s new French economic adviser has ‘faith in redistribution’ (Double facepalm)

Weekly Standard: Obama Continues to Violate His Own ‘Stimulus’ Law by Not Releasing Quarterly Reports (Infinite facepalm)

How else could the government muck up the economy? By dragging on croudsourced funding regulations! (In violation of the law, to boot.)

Zero Hedge: Germans contemplate impact of US oil boom.  Glimmer of hope.

Lowry via Ace: Limbaugh was right about Obama.  No shit.

WashTimes: West Point center cites dangers of ‘far right’ in U.S.  — Stay tuned for my pontifications about the insurrectionist doctrine.

Get your ass to Mars.  One way.

Chimps like pr0n too!

Oprah likes foreskin. On her face.

Jim Parsons has come out of his completely transparent glass closet.  If you’re offended by this, you might want to visit another blog.

 

And in other queer fun, George Takei (oh, by the way, he’s gay too, just in case someone here hadn’t picked up on that) posted this on his Facebook page.

Sadly, Cheetah the Chimp has passed away.

Cheetah, the most famous of the sanctuary’s 15 chimpanzees, liked to see people laugh.

“He was very compassionate,” Cobb said. “He could tell if I was having a good day or a bad day. He was always trying to get me to laugh if he thought I was having a bad day. He was very in tune to human feelings.”

Ron Priest, a sanctuary volunteer for seven years, said Cheetah stood out because of his ability to stand up – shoulders tall, back straight – and walk like a person.

Cheetah also stood out for another reason, Priest said: “When he didn’t like somebody or something that was going on, he would pick up some poop and throw it at them. He could get you at 30 feet with bars in between.”

Add to those feats his ability to fight the Nazis, and we truly have lost a great one.

I don’t know why.  I do know that we need to get her and Sheldon Cooper in the same room

Or am I just drunk? It seems to make sense. (pdf warning)

The top tax rate should be 0%.

Of course, what he means is that there should be no income tax on income over some amount (he uses Pounds, he’s British and they don’t seem to call their money “dollars”, weird.)

RTWT

Via Samizdata who makes with the unintentional funny. In discussing FrnakJ he writes:

Good recent Frank Jism:

Heh. He said “jism”.

Ship them like it’s my job.

Hahahahaha! Fuck you, hipster douchebags. Fuck your attempts to refuck that which was unfucked by the Supreme Court’s Floccosely Fucksmack For Freedom’s Sake. Fuck your arrogance so hard, Chuck Negron’s replacement cock will explode from the shock. Fuck you and your hebetic mindset for thinking that celebritydom and a cute publicity stunt would trump the Constitution and the laws the rest of us are forced to follow and allow you to skip the line when it comes to the First Amendment. And fuck you simply because I love seeing people who think they are so fucking smart fail so immensely at satirizing a decision with which they disagree.

PETArds are up in arms over it.  Which is unsurprising given that The Hangover II didn’t get the “no animals were harmed” disclaimer that you’ve seen at the end of every movie for the past bajillion years.

A spokesperson for the American Humane Association, which monitors the treatment of animals on nearly 2,000 film and television sets every year, says the organization offered to visit the movie’s set in Thailand but was turned down — and that the group has not been granted a screening of the film.

At the same time, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals president Ingrid Newkirk tells EW her organization wrote a letter to Phillips protesting Crystal’s appearance in the film. While Newkirk believes Phillips was only joking about the cigarette smoking (“he would have been locked up if anybody on the set had turned him in”), she says any use of exotic animals for entertainment purposes is “of grave concern” to PETA: “Monkeys are wild. They don’t want to be doing the same things over and over, they’re easily upset, they don’t want to be under the bright lights, they don’t want to be in the cage.” Newkirk says the group is particularly upset about the monkey being used in connection with sexual humor: “A joke is a joke, and we have a great sense of humor, but leave the animals out of it.”

Capuchins are generally regarded as the smartest monkey, and have even been taught to use money, which is something I doubt a two-year-old can master. So why is it so much more objectionable to PETA and the American Humane Society that a monkey has been taught to hold a cigarette, than that an Indonesian two-year-old chain smokes?

On a slightly related side note – since as Alex pointed out, “It’s always a good time to include Dr. Sheldon Cooper, Ph.D.”

I suppose it’s comforting that the German press does as much fact-checking as the American press.

And just because…