The Most Powerful Political Forces in Cahleefohnia
WSJ – Ahnuld: Public Pensions and Our Fiscal Future Few Californians in the private sector have $1 million in savings, but that’s effectively the retirement account they guarantee to many government employees.
At the same time that government-employee costs have been climbing, the private-sector workers whose taxes pay for them have been hurting. Since 2007, [...]
Categories: Politics
It Makes Augustus Look Like a Doofus
io9 – Ultraviolet light reveals how ancient Greek statues really looked
(That’s a Roman statue there, says the girl who took two years of art history classes.)
Curtsy: RC2.
Categories: Art and Literature
What the Heck Happened To California
I suppose this is just a consequence of the huge population in that state, but good lord, it blows New York away:
It’s like end times over there.
From The Corner: Job Creation in the States
Categories: Politics
The Aborigines Might Have a Point About All That Being-Robbed-of-Their-Culture Stuff
Indigenous Australians in traditional costume:
Modern white lady hoping to win a beauty pagent in “traditional costume”:
Curtsy: Rueful Red.
Categories: Entertainment
Cook Porn III
Even the Infographic is Unreadable
Dave Seems To Be Enjoying Himself
Looking at the photos accompanying the Times article about the Prime Minister’s trip to Washington. Wouldn’t it be funny (funny ironic? funny haha?) if Dave is to Obama what Bush was to Tone. What is it about the co-politicals rubbing each other the wrong way?
In other news: There isn’t any. It’s 10 pm and I [...]
Categories: Politics
Absolutely the Funniest Item of the Day CCXL
Curtsy: Brett McS.
Update: Brett sent this to me THREE WEEKS AGO! How did this NOT GET PUBLISHED?! Why is it STILL IN MY DRAFTS?!?!!?
Categories: Politics
I’ve Left It Too Late Again
So this time I give you a picture of a baby sea otter, sucking a pacifier.
Curtsy: ZooBorns. Baby turns one tomorrow. We’ll be at the zoo.
Categories: Science and Nature
Putting It In American Terms
I’ve always thought that the FBI Wanted posters for Osama bin Laden should skip the photo of the man and have a picture of what $25 million will get you.
WANTED USAMA BIN LADEN MURDER OF U.S. NATIONALS OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES; CONSPIRACY TO MURDER U.S. NATIONALS OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES; [...]
Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs
From Star Wars to Staring Contests
Ladies and gentlemen, observe the new Cold War:
President Obama and Russian president Dmitry Medvedev at Ray’s Hell Burger in DC (click for photo)
Like the Muppets!
Categories: Politics
Absolutely the Funniest Item of the Day CCXXXIX
27b/6 – “yeah thats not what I was looking for at all.”
From: David Thorne Date: Monday 21 June 2010 10.28am To: Shannon Walkley Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Poster Dear Shannon, It’s a design thing. The cat is lost in the negative space. [...]
Categories: Catblogging
Absolutely the Funniest Item of the Day CCXXXIV
Spork and Foon Jokes
And Today, the Metric System
Well, that was fast. Just yesterday I started fominating about ending the French Revolutionary tyranny of measurements, and today I see this:
TLS – Before London went metric A tribute to the city’s lost architectural dignity, and its unregarded lives Lindsay Duguid
The story of Lost London is straightforward: a largely Georgian city with medieval survivals was [...]
Categories: History
