If you want to start the week off right, do something nice for someone…
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Archive for the 'awww!' Category
I meant to run through these things over the weekend, but that ended up being too busy and fun-filled, and before I knew it, it was Monday! Ack!
• Are there cancer vaccines on the horizon?
• If you’re into gymnasts or stunts, you’ll dig this guy.
• Why are so few Christians vegetarian?
• Oh, dear Dog, Tennessee has distinguished itself yet again. I’ve been living here for almost 20 years, and I’m still waiting for us to get a bit of national press for something that isn’t humiliating…
• Here’s a no-brainer: kids need to move around more. In other breaking news, crunchberries are not really fruit.
• Widimedia Commons Picture of the Year results!
• I don’t know if I can go through life without experiencing a Kogi Taco.
• A lovely collection of iconic portraits.
• Bill O’Reilly: ignoramus or liar?
• Awww. A rat and his cat!
And finally, what looks like the Topic of the Week, health care. Here are a few links, and then come commentary from Bill Maher:
• Wow. In today’s America, Sixty percent of bankruptcies are due to medical bills. That is a staggering number. Is there still anyone left out there who doesn’t believe we need health care reform, and fast?
• Here’s another sobering tidbit: People are now not filling prescriptions to save money.
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I know there is a lot of juicy political news out there this week (the short version: McCain is an idiot; Obama is a rock star), but I haven’t been engaged in it as much as I usually am. I’ve been working on some summer projects and generally not in a processing/writing/ranting sort of mood. But while I’m working on the house and dealing with some server issues, here’s a great story you might enjoy:
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A few St. Patrick’s Day links:
- The wiki treatment
- White People like it!
- A little Irish-ish music (along with a story that make you go “awww”!)
- wearing o’ the black
- St. Patrick’s Day won’t occur during Holy Week again until 2160. Thank goodness, since there’s been some controversy over the timing!
- UPDATE (one more): Check out these Guinness Cupcakes!
(regarding the subject line)
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Yeah, TWANS (that stands for The Widow Anna Nicole Smith, which is how she was known on teh internets back in the day) is dead, and that’s all the news programs will be talking about all evening. But here are some non-TWANS tidbits that you might have missed:
First of all… have you committed any abominations today? Chances are that you have. In their effort to protect marriage, Christian conservatives are slowly (and incoherently) backing themselves into a corner. They claim that they want to “protect marriage,” but then why don’t they support laws to punish adulterers and childless couples? Some think that it’s because they’re not really interested in protecting marriage at all, but rather want to get lots of ignorant conservatives to the voting booths, and scaring them into hating gay people is a really easy way to do it. Unfortunately, as they push their literal interpretations of isolated bible passages, they’re turning themselves into terrible sinners, many of whom must now be put to death. Someone clear out the public square — we’ve got a lot of killing and stoning to do.
And on a lighter, sweeter note, check out these fossilized lovers who were found not far from Shakespeare’s Verona, locked in an eternal embrace — they’ve been snuggling like that for 5,000 or 6,000 years (via Daffodil Lane).
And finally, the discussion about the recycling situation in Chattanooga (which I mentioned in a post yesterday), continues. I expect we’ll be hearing a lot more on this subject before either Littlefield comes to his senses, or we get a new mayor who brings a fresh approach to recycling to our fair city.
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The coolest dog since Lassie pulled Timmy out of the well (John Travolta is so expendable).
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And where do you keep YOUR cat?
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