 What a B-2 bomber would cost, in materials, if it were built of solid gold | $.8 billion | ||||
What it will actually cost U.S. taxpayers as currently constructed | $2.3 billion | ||||
(thx, WorldWatch.org!)
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
B-2 Bombers of Gold
Golf or Water?
 | 2.5 billion gallons |
Amount of water used, per day, to irrigate the world’s golf courses | 2.5 billion gallons |
Sunday, September 26, 2010
New Rule: with Bill Maher
Posted: September 24, 2010 08:50 AM
New Rule: The next rich person who publicly complains about being vilified by the Obama administration must be publicly vilified by the Obama administration. It's so hard for one person to tell another person what constitutes being "rich", or what tax rate is "too much." But I've done some math that indicates that, considering the hole this country is in, if you are earning more than a million dollars a year and are complaining about a 3.6% tax increase, then you are by definition a greedy asshole. READ the REST at HuffPo!
Friday, September 17, 2010
The world’s smallest stop-motion animation character: Dot.
Professor Fletcher’s invention of the CellScope, which is a Nokia device with a microscope attachment, was the inspiration for a teeny-tiny film created by Sumo Science at Aardman. It stars a 9mm girl called Dot as she struggles through a microscopic world. All the minuscule detail was shot using CellScope technology and a Nokia N8, with its 12 megapixel camera and Carl Zeiss optics. SEE THE awesome VIDEO!
and the MAKING of it.(thanks, Nokia!)
Thursday, September 16, 2010
No Accepted Medical Use? Yes We Cannabis!
See the VIDEO!
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Friday, September 3, 2010
Bubble in Space
The image on top is a new one. WTF is this??? Read MORE HERE!
Thursday, September 2, 2010
OK, the Allman Brothers Band, ANIMATED
Ok, the Allman Brothers Band.... from Brett Underhill on Vimeo.
this is sick! Gotta get a HardBargain cartoon vid!
(thanks, Warren Haynes & the ABB and Brett Underhill!)
Been There, done that.
great post from Brady Bonk, Ketchup is A Vegetable:
Every time I hear one of these TP wackadoodles talk about how we need to lessen the reach of the federal government and how the federal government is only supposed to provide an army or whatnot, I can’t help but wonder what the hell history classes they had growing up. Because one of the first lessons I think you ever learn once you start studying history is that, guess what, buttmunch, this notion of a strictly limited federal government and then the states individually get to decide everything else? WE TRIED THAT ALREADY. IT DIDN’T WORK. READ all about it....(thanks, KIAV!)
Every time I hear one of these TP wackadoodles talk about how we need to lessen the reach of the federal government and how the federal government is only supposed to provide an army or whatnot, I can’t help but wonder what the hell history classes they had growing up. Because one of the first lessons I think you ever learn once you start studying history is that, guess what, buttmunch, this notion of a strictly limited federal government and then the states individually get to decide everything else? WE TRIED THAT ALREADY. IT DIDN’T WORK. READ all about it....(thanks, KIAV!)
Friday, August 27, 2010
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Wisdom from Driftglass
Someone once said that there are only two kinds of Republicans; millionaires and chumps.
But there is a third kind: self-loathing minority group outliers who are willing to sell their own people to the wingnut mob in exchange for 30 pieces of silver and a pat on the head from people who hate them.
(thanks, Driftglass! I was just thinkin the same thang)
But there is a third kind: self-loathing minority group outliers who are willing to sell their own people to the wingnut mob in exchange for 30 pieces of silver and a pat on the head from people who hate them.
(thanks, Driftglass! I was just thinkin the same thang)
State Lotteries: Revenue from the Poor & stupid
The Poor Tax: I find it so sad to see those with no money to waste, spending on
state lotteries. Most players seem to be lower socioeconomic classes, so they are the only ones that pay this tax. Their kids need shoes, clothes, proper food, yet the state advertises the Million$ they could win. I guess the states need the money and the poor are happy to pay it. Now lets cut those taxes for the rich folk and
major corporations. I feel so sorry for them.
Best Sunspot Shot EVER!
NO it's NOT what you think...get your mind outta the gutter!
"This photo of a sunspot is now the most detailed ever obtained in visible light," according to Ciel et l'Espace. In September, the publication will publish several more photos of the Sun taken with BBSO's new adaptive optics system. READ MORE (Thanks, Big Bear Observatory!)
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Defeat the Right in Three Minutes
It's evidently all about Cheap Labor!
Have you got three minutes. Because that's all you need to learn how to defeat the Republican Right. Just read through this handy guide and you'll have everything you need to successfully debunk right-wing propaganda.
It's really that simple. First, you have to beat their ideology, which really isn't that difficult. At bottom, conservatives believe in a social hierarchy of "haves" and "have nots" that I call "corporate feudalism". They have taken this corrosive social vision and dressed it up with a "respectable" sounding ideology. That ideology is pure hogwash, and you can prove it. READ IT HERE. (thanks, ConceptualGorilla!)
Have you got three minutes. Because that's all you need to learn how to defeat the Republican Right. Just read through this handy guide and you'll have everything you need to successfully debunk right-wing propaganda.
It's really that simple. First, you have to beat their ideology, which really isn't that difficult. At bottom, conservatives believe in a social hierarchy of "haves" and "have nots" that I call "corporate feudalism". They have taken this corrosive social vision and dressed it up with a "respectable" sounding ideology. That ideology is pure hogwash, and you can prove it. READ IT HERE. (thanks, ConceptualGorilla!)
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Self Employment TAX?? WTF
ok, a rant, hey what's the deal with the "self-employment tax"?? can we please ditch this?
I'm not talkin about INCOME earned through self employment (freelance), but the 15% off the top.....then to tax the actual income....why aren't those taxhaters freakin out about this?
Anyone know if other countries have such a ridiculous thing? Who came up with this and can we throw stuff at them in public? I'm no teabagger and have no problem payin lots in tax & getting lots of groovy things in return, but if you say it out loud it sounds sick and twisted.....let's say it out loud...SELF - EMPLOYMENT.....TAX. see? WTF?
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Coke's "Vitamin Water" under Fire
The bottle sort of looks like medicine to me!
In a staggering feat of twisted logic, lawyers for Coca-Cola are defending the lawsuit by asserting that "no consumer could reasonably be misled into thinking vitaminwater was a healthy beverage."
Read the story at HuffPo, where
John Robbins lays it out. Sugar-water, anyone?
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Thursday, July 29, 2010
You GO girl! Sherrod to SUE Breitbart
READ ALL ABOUT IT! (thanks, HuffPo!)
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Weapon of Mass Communications (WMC's)
This is someone else's variation of my invention....which is not a stencil but an
actual self-inking stamper that resembles a briefcase.
When you push down on the handle it leaves an imprint on the sidewalk, wall, etc.
The version shown here would be much easier and cheaper to produce, though harder to use if
you don't want to get busted. (thanks, Dweebist!)
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