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Archive of entries posted on 7th October 2013
Asleep at the Switch
Two airline pilots have confessed to being asleep in the cockpit at the same time during a flight into the UK.
So… did these guys used to be in charge of Middle-East embassy security for Hillary?
Optics
Link of the Day: Signing Up for Obamacare – It’s FUN!
[High Praise! to Gang Aft Agley]
Don’t let the “Part 3” thing scare you off. It works fine as a stand-alone read.
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Trendy!
The latest fad in child-birthing: leaving the placenta attached for up to 10 days.
After that, the kids get attached to their parents’ health care for 26 years.
Obama Warned Us – Optimism
I am the eternal optimist. I think that, over time, people respond to civility and — and rational argument.
BARACK OBAMA, press conference, Feb. 9, 2009
“But who’s got time for that? Race Card, away!”
You’ve Been Judged!
Anonymiss of Nuking Politics picked her favorite punchlines to “Because of the Shutdown, President Obama May Not Play Golf This Weekend. Instead…”
Click here to see if you made the cut.
By the way, Anonymiss did a Top 10 list over there. Feel free to get all judgey on it.
Just remember that she has a rolling pin that could take out a Sherman tank.
Straight Line of the Day: The White House Is Asking for Shutdown Sob Stories. What’s Yours?
Works like this: I feed you Moon Nukers a straight line, and you hit me with a punch line in the comments.
The White House is asking for shutdown sob stories. What’s yours?
Robot cats
I don’t know if you’ve noticed or not, but robots are taking over the world. In 2013 alone, we’ve seen reports of vomiting robots, Killer Robot Surgeons, Giant German Robot Apes, Giant Mutant Radioactive Robot Snakes, Pizza-Delivering Underwater Robot Killer Whales, and Vampire Robots.
Well, if that’s not enough robots running around causing mayhem and chaos, there’s now a robot that’s … wait for it … running around. It’s called WildCat, and it’s from those wacky kids at Boston Dynamics.
[YouTube]
The little gasoline engine is a little odd, but once they figure out how to get it to run on an iPhone or Droid Maxx battery, you best watch out.
Chip Off the Old Block
Asked by Piers Morgan if Hillary or Chelsea would make a better president, Bill Clinton picked Chelsea because “She knows more than we do about everything”.
Yeah, but is she better than her mom at dodging questions about it?