Today's Mighty Oak


Alright, let’s see what we have today.  First up, we now know what the tubes of the Internet look like:

If you need some good sports news after the Lance Armstrong scandal, check out this touching story from The Good Men Project.

The Good Men Project also has a cool time-lapse video from the LA Times of the trip of the shuttle Endeavor.

Remember how the republicans have been shouting from the rooftops about voter fraud?  And remember how those who fight against something the most are normally committing it themselves?  Yeah, republicans are committing more voter fraud.

Romney is also possibly getting into the illegal by asking employers to tell their employees how to vote.

Here’s the Lego version of the space jump:

The big Seattle newspaper is giving away free political advertising, but only to one party.  They are stating it is to prove how effective their advertising is, so they can gain more business in the future.  Kind of strange, and throwing objectivity out the window.  Now, to be fair, they can throw it out the window, but then they can’t go back and claim to not have a bias.  Anyway, a good portion of their writers have signed on to a letter, saying the policy affects their journalistic integrity.

Ben Stein went on Fox news and told them that to fix the economy we have to tax the wealthy.  Also, I had no idea he didn’t believe in evolution.  Guess he isn’t as smart as I thought.

This has been floating around, a great response (from a fake CEO) about maxi pad commercials:

Marriage equality is on the ballot in four states (and I have friends in each one of those states), so here’s a reminder: instead of you know, helping the poor, as Jesus said, the Knights of Columbus spent over 15 million dollars fighting equality.  Guess you didn’t really need to help the sick either:

And lastly about politics, a play written by Dan Savage about Obamacare (via Twitter).

That’s it for now, but I’ll be back soon with more!



So, I’ve found some new feeds for some ad blogs, here’s some great ones that I’ve found, more to come later:



Let’s see what we have today, first up Buzzfeed has a collection of awesome British billboards, I’m still partial to the first one.

This is just great:

If you didn’t catch it, the “NOT COOL, COOKIE” saga explained.

It’s funny because it’s true:

Are ads sexist?  Probably:

These cards are awesome, over sized umbrellas are the worst on city sidewalks!

Fun fact, two in five people would rather scrub toilets than change their passwords…hmmmm

I honestly don’t think this will work, but it’s still fun to watch:

That’s it for now, but I’ll be back with more soon!



Alright, let’s see what we have for today, first up, a new version of Sim City:

The Great Barrier Reef is losing massive amounts of coral, partly because of climate change, but also because of the increase of a certain type of starfish, much like the reefs in the Caribbean are being ravaged by the invasive lionfish.

Tim Cook paid tribute to Steve Jobs, one year after his death.

Someone is going to try to go over the Irish Sea in this, believe it or not:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh8MiSmk-

If you’re a man, and your candidate loses, you may experience a drop in testosterone.  Which may lead you to not again in the future, very strange.

This is really cool, removing some of the growth rings to show younger versions of (dead) trees:

Big Bird was on SNL last week!  I can’t believe I missed that!

Okay, two fire videos, first up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev2anNPtfVc

And secondly, a slow motion Molotov Cocktail:

And lastly, a full plane was crashed to learn how to better survive it, Nightline covers it.



Now that I’m no longer working for the BSA, I’ve decided to share some sought-after information.  There are some who will find this particularly interesting  and others that won’t.  But still, it will be fun.

So let’s talk about the closing staff slideshows.

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Written: 10/14/2012

I spoke about this earlier, but I think this will be the way to change the BSA’s policies, at least combined with showing that embracing equality would provide a net gain of membership, and thankfully, more companies are being pressured to drop their financial support for the BSA.

UPS is being petitioned right now, by Scouting for Equality, and Intel has stopped funding them, and a push is being made for AT&T to join the movement.

It’s absolutely horrible, but this new push is because of the recent denial of a gay Scout’s Scoutmaster approval to finish his Eagle (which would then have gone to a Board of Review, but you still need the Scoutmaster approval first), but these kinds of incidents, keeps the BSA in the news.

And this is part of the strategy used to defeat DADT, keeping it in the news, and in the forefront of the country’s mind.  it is sad to see, but the BSA does need exposed for the hate they spit at the youth members as well.

All my best,

The King of Spades



Written: 10/14/2012

One of my all-time favorite bloggers and, quite frankly, inspirations, has put together a great debate primer.

Check out Rob’s guide (and download it to your phone/tablet/computer) here.

All my best,

The King of Spades



Written: 10/14/2012

The first openly gay captain of a NCAA team (Div II football), and soon to be sworn in as the first LGBT congressmen in the state, Brian Sims, had this to say about being out as his team’s captain:

“My team had 118 guys on the football team. Every single one of them wanted to come find some private time with me to ask how I was doing and let me know that they were okay with it,”

So great to hear, and makes me hopeful for the future.

I”ll be interested to see what kind of progress he can make in Harrisburg, hopefully he doesn’t get too bogged down by the nasty politics of the state.

All my best,

The King of Spades



Written: 10/14/2012

I’ve never seen Red Hook, they may not have any distribution in Pa, but I love this ad:

All my best,

The King of Spades



Written: 10/14/2012

We often hear it screamed from the right, “Think of the children!.”

So I will:

Read more from AFER here.

All my best,

The King of Spades

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