AHAHAHAHA: Some evangelicals are trying to boycott Google due to their support for marriage equality. Good luck with that:
And speaking of marriage equality, at our triannual general convention, the Episcopal Church approved a blessing of same-sex couples. There’s a lot of caveats to that, I’ll be putting up a post at Metblogs about it, so look for that.
When will news anchors learn that Bill Nye is smarter than you. She asked him with such snark, it was nice to see him smack her down:
And lastly, the Good Men Project has an awesome poster about words we probably use in our everyday conversation and why they hurt people. Check it out here.
Update for everyone, let’s see what we have today. First up, in major Pittsburgh news, a new program called “Mister Rogers for Adults.” is creating a series of short clips to air before movies and online. I love Mister Rogers so much, so this is just amazing. Check out the story here and subscribe via YouTube here.
NYC may be getting an underground park. Which would be a cool compliment to the raised park that is nearing completion:
North Carolina will vote in less than a week to inscribe anti-marriage equality into their constitution. In a strange and sickening turn, the effort has been endorsed by a White Supremacist group, after it was revealed it was written to “protect the white race.” If that makes no sense to you either, don’t feel bad, it doesn’t to me. Unless they were more concerned about the news that gay couples are more inter-racial and inter-ethnic (could someone explain the difference to me, please) than straight couples.
I just finished reading the Hunger Games Trilogy, and it was awesome, now I need to go see the movie. In the meantime though, here is a trailer for The Hipster Games:
Big stuff from Google with their augmented reality glasses, and the inevitable remake of it:
Also from Google, they’ve been working on using Street Maps technology in museums around the world, now they’ve shot the interior of the White House:
So…Santorum is crazy. For a while, he was campaigning on a platform of outlawing porn. I was talking with a friend this week, a speaker brought into her work place was also known for going on tirades about pornography. And we all agree, it’s a case of “He who doth protest too much…” But anyway, in response, porn stars (ahem, hard, ahem, working Americans who would be put out of work) came together to make a video in protest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwMzFyyKWNc
One of my favorite church signs, going viral:
And lastly, holy crap, you know people are stretching when they want to protest Desmund Tutu. I saw him speak at my church, and the man is amazing and a living saint. If you ever have the chance to listen to him lecture, please do, you will not regret it, I promise.
That’s it for now, thanks everyone, have a great one!
Scientist have found a spiral star. Not a solar system or galaxy, but a star. Really cool, check it out.
This is really cool, watch to learn how much The Internet weighs:
Want to find out how long your relationship has been in terms of the unit of measure of a Kardashian (72 days)? Click here. By the way, congratulations to my parents who have been married over 180 Kardashians!
Wes Anderson’s new movie looks really awesome, and it includes Edward Norton! Check it out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP0QJ_Ba1Bs
Death Star PR approves of this letter. And so do I! Which first of all, if you’re going to be a go and talk about Star Wars, you better know your stuff.
And finally, I think it will take longer for us to see these, considering that now we’ll need power running to our windows, but it would be awesome to see above sinks (for when washing dishes) as long as it includes links to online video:
I’m back from my summer travels, so that means, much more regular content! Until I get back on a normal sleep schedule and whatnot, here’s a short update:
I know I missed it, but all I have to say is one of my favorite quotes, “You should live every week like it’s Shark Week.” Enjoy:
So, a school district in Missouri banned “Slaugherhouse Five,” because it goes against the Bible. Good gravy. But thankfully, the Vonnegut Library will give any student from that district a free copy. If you’d like to learn more or donate, check it out.
And speaking of politics, here’s the official GOP bracket:
So, there are apparently porn parodies of everything. However, one nerd took all the sex out, and it turns out Star Trek: The Next Generation porn is actually a pretty good episode.
I have a bunch of stuff to pass on, but I cut the tip of my index finger, so typing is strange, at best. I’ll see what I can do, but I should be back soon with the rest of what I have (unless work does in fact manage to kill me this week).
If you truly believe that labor unions are so evil and/or unnecessary—indeed, un-American—then why don’t you volunteer to give up all the rights and benefits the labor movement has won for working Americans over the past 140 years? You know, little things like the 8-hour workday, weekends, paid overtime, paid sick, holiday and vacation days, child labor laws, workplace safety, workers compensation for on-job injuries, unemployment insurance, health care insurance, maternity leave and family medical leave… not to mention the minimum wage, Social Security, and Medicare, plus a whole lot of other things I’m probably forgetting.
Go ahead, give those things up. Because without organized labor, you wouldn’t have any of those rights or benefits in the first place.
In honor of President’s Day, Nerve has ranked the Presidents and First Ladies in terms of sexiness. You should easily be able to guess who tops the First Lady list, but, points for this description of number 28:
Abigail Adams was not the ugliest first lady, by any means. Just frighteningly severe and voted most likely to “cut a bitch.”
What if the Mississippi River was really a transit map? This is really cool, although I was sad to see the Yough wasn’t listed.
Also, I’m really excited that the Scottish Deer Hound won Westminster! I saw it for the first time on Thanksgiving and think it’s a really cool dog!
Thank you James Earl Jones, for everything:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkDbTEemErA
Okay, let’s play a game with youtube. Of the two following movie trailers, one is for a “Direct to YouTube” movie. The other is a trailer for a Porn. See if you can tell them apart:
I hope everyone had a great Festivus yesterday, enjoy Christmas Eve and Christmas! And for your enjoyment, here’s what I’ve found lately:
I tend to think that Flash Mobs have been a bit overdone, but this one was cool, even if the music editing took some turns for the worse towards the end:
This showed up on SNL, and I laughed, a lot:
And another video to start off with, I don’t understand chemistry at all. It makes no sense to me, I’ll stick to physics thank you very much. However, I think this would have helped a lot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a45dXztokZM
Carblolic Smoke Ball has done it again, and by done, I mean made me laugh a lot:
THESSALONIA, Ohio – Theologians are calling Saint Paul’s third letter to the Thessalonians, lost in the mail for 2,000 years because of insufficient postage, but finally delivered and opened last night, a “bombshell” because it urges that Christ be kept out of Christmas.
And here’s a video guaranteed to make you feel insignificant:
And following the ridiculous tradition, CBS cares. They really, really care:
Really? Do something “for your woman”? And while I am glad to see this one including Santa (although I’m sure there are Santas out there who either claim, or really could fill in as a OB-GYN, don’t trust them if they smell like whiskey!), I’m still confused as to why there are ones specifically made for Christmas and Haunakkah. My mind explodes a little bit.
