From here.

Hark! A Vagrant

From here.

This made me laugh

The complete ridiculousness of a paraphilia based upon the image of a dumb, silent woman...

From here.

Beastie Boys / Battlestar Galactica Mashup

This is probably the best mash-up I have seen. Someone has taken the time to create a Battlestar Galactica music video parody, using the music video "Sabotage" by the Beasties Boys. It is best viewed directly after, or if possible alongside, the original 1994 Spike Jonze music video. Virtually every scene in the mash-up is edited not necessarily exactly, but certainly thematically consistent with, the original music video, using scenes from the Battlestar Galactica (reimagined) TV series.

Here's the original.

And here's the mash-up.

Cure for Twilight

This is the only Edward T-shirt you'll need. And it's real.

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Timely

"Our very way of life is under siege," said Mortensen, whose understanding of the Constitution derives not from a close reading of the document but from talk-show pundits, books by television personalities, and the limitless expanse of his own colorful imagination. "It's time for true Americans to stand up and protect the values that make us who we are."

According to Mortensen—an otherwise mild-mannered husband, father, and small-business owner—the most serious threat to his fanciful version of the 222-year-old Constitution is the attempt by far-left "traitors" to strip it of its religious foundation.

"Right there in the preamble, the authors make their priorities clear: 'one nation under God,'" said Mortensen, attributing to the Constitution a line from the Pledge of Allegiance, which itself did not include any reference to a deity until 1954. "Well, there's a reason they put that right at the top."

"Men like Madison and Jefferson were moved by the ideals of Christianity, and wanted the United States to reflect those values as a Christian nation," continued Mortensen, referring to the "Father of the Constitution," James Madison, considered by many historians to be an atheist, and Thomas Jefferson, an Enlightenment-era thinker who rejected the divinity of Christ and was in France at the time the document was written. "The words on the page speak for themselves."

According to sources who have read the nation's charter, the U.S. Constitution and its 27 amendments do not contain the word "God" or "Christ."

Mortensen said his admiration for the loose assemblage of vague half-notions he calls the Constitution has only grown over time. He believes that each detail he has pulled from thin air—from prohibitions on sodomy and flag-burning, to mandatory crackdowns on immigrants, to the right of citizens not to have their hard-earned income confiscated in the form of taxes—has contributed to making it the best framework for governance "since the Ten Commandments."

Full factual report here.

Photograph: The U.S.S. U.S. Constitution.

Some good editorial cartoons

One of my more guilty pleasures is reading Somethingawful.com. It's a mishmash of stupidity and offensiveness so it obviously appeals to me.

Anyway, one of the guys at the site has been drawing editorial cartoons for people's amusement, and they have put a lot of them together here. These are my favourite ones:

I'm ashamed

But I laughed at this.

US to Bail Out Federal Government

Message from a Butterfly

Bush finally gets it right

From America's Finest News Source:

In a nationally televised address to the American people Wednesday night, President Bush called upon every man, woman, and child to spiral uncontrollably downward into complete and utter panic.

Speaking from the Oval Office, Bush assured citizens that in these times of great uncertainty, the best and only course of action is to come under the throes of a sudden, overwhelming fear marked by hysterical or irrational behavior.

"My fellow Americans, the time for running aimlessly through streets while shrieking and waving our arms above our heads is now," Bush said. "I understand that many of you are worried about your economic future and our situation overseas, and you have every right to be. Yet there is only one thing we as a nation can do in times like these: give up all hope and devolve into a lawless, post-apocalyptic, every-man-for-himself society."

"For those of you who have remained resolute in your belief that things will turn around eventually, I urge you to close your eyes, take shallow rapid breaths, and begin freaking out immediately," Bush added. "At this point, anyone who isn't scared to death needs to wake the fuck up—because we're screwed here."

A solution to our problems

Courtesy of The Big Picture.

Benny Lava

I have not laughed this hard for a long, long time. I won't ruin it for you, just watch it (a few explicit language warnings but it's harmless, unless your health suffers from laughing too much).

Rugged individualism and self reliance

I personally don't have any problem with welfare spending. I think it's important to help people on lower incomes. If putting Sarah Palin up as VP means that the Republicans want more people to get welfare, that's a good thing. I'm just saying.

Update:
Sarah Palin’s home state is awash with money.

Threat to McCain

Old, Grizzled Third Party Candidate May Steal Support From McCain

I want

Zis is ze German Coastguard

Apodeictic mailed me this a few years ago.