Archive of entries posted on 16th July 2014

Makes Perfect Sense

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[High Praise! to Liberal Logic 101]

Spaghetti Western Theme Music and Flowing Wood Grain

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Probably won’t appeal to everyone, but I enjoyed this:


[Waves of Grain]

From the artist’s description:

To create this strata-cut animation, I planed down a block of wood one layer at a time, photographing it at each pass. The painstaking process revealed a hidden life and motion in the seemingly static grain of the wood, even as the wood itself was reduced to a mound of sawdust.

Keep Looking

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NASA has found a mysterious X-ray signal that astronomers say could be from dark matter some 240 million light years away from Earth.

Still not found: room in the budget for a ship to launch our own astronauts into orbit.

Eric Cantor Knows This Feeling

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[High Praise! to Hunter of Nuking Politics]

Link of the Day: My World’s Bigger Than Your World

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[High Praise! to 4of7 of Little Worlds]

Slightly Larger Worlds – Part 1

NOTE TO 4of7: That voice that says “See? I told you so! But did you listen? Nooooo! You had to be a big shot and do it your own way! Well, I hope you’re satisfied!”?

NEVER listen to that voice. Discouragement is a sucker’s game.

Just keep drawing…

[Think you have a link that’s IMAO-worthy? Send it to harvolson@gmail.com. If I use your link, you will receive High Praise! (assuming you remember to put your name in the email)]

Wisdom of the Day: Palestinians Dog Pillows Letter Buzzfeed Wand

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I’m All About Solutions

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A new GAO report shows that the Medicaid program doled out $14.4 billion in improper payments in fiscal year 2013.

Easy enough to make this problem go away. Cut the GAO’s report budget.

Obama Warned Us – Join the Fight

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Join the fight to help folks struggling to get by on the minimum wage: http://ofa.bo/p0Gd #RaiseTheWage
@BarackObama

“NOTE: Not an actual fight. If this were an actual fight with vital American values riding on the outcome, I would run away like a frightened little girl (see also: Iraq, Afghanistan)”

Straight Line of the Day: In Response to Criticism of Michelle’s School Lunch Program…

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(From a suggestion by Anonymiss of Nuking Politics [High Praise!])

Works like this: I feed you Moon Nukers a straight line, and you hit me with a punch line in the comments.

In response to criticism of Michelle’s school lunch program…

Thor got boobies

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ThorChickThor has boobies.

That’s some comic book thing, by the way. But, a lot of comic book people seem to hang around the internetz, so you may already know what I’m talking about. You kids with your Archie comics and your hula hoops and your fax machines…

Anyway, Marvel comics has announced that Thor is a woman now.

“The inscription on Thor’s hammer reads ‘Whosoever holds this hammer, if HE be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor.’ Well it’s time to update that inscription,” says Marvel editor Wil Moss. “The new Thor continues Marvel’s proud tradition of strong female characters like Captain Marvel, Storm, Black Widow and more. And this new Thor isn’t a temporary female substitute – she’s now the one and only Thor, and she is worthy!”

I’m not sure how I feel about that. Partly, I don’t care, because I don’t read Marvel or any other comics. But, I do sorta care because it points out what’s wrong with entertainment today: people don’t have any ideas for story, so they use gimmicks.

I mean, there’s no reason to give boobies to Thor and make the Norse god really irritable on certain days. Well, unless you can’t come up with a good idea for a real story. Then, of course, making the god of thunder a chick keeps you from having to actually be creative. Plus, you get all the Hillary supporters on your side. After all, if Thor can be female, why not the president? They forget that Hillary would be less feminine than the current office-holder. And that’s not a slap directed at Hillary.

Anyway, what are the ramifications of Thor having boobies? No, really. What are they? You see, I really don’t read comics, so I have no idea what Thor the comic is all about. I did some research, but ran across things like alternate universes and the Negative Zone, and villains like Zarrko, Bloodaxe, Surfer, Thunderball and such.

Yeah. I’m not reading all that.

Anyway, Thor’s got boobies. Did I mention that? Will this really work? And, if so, what’s next? Batman and Robin as lesbians? Catwoman as a dude?

CatwomanDude

I’ve never been so anxious for a meteor to take us out than I am now.

Random Thoughts: Nuclear Weapons, Girl-Thor, and Most Dangerous Guns

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I think I’m going to go by the Twitter rule that if you don’t have anything funny to say, then don’t say anything at all.
…D’oh!

If we got rid of all of our nuclear weapons, then what would we do if we needed to nuke something? Seems shortsighted.

But what do Vikings think of girl Thor?

I guess I’m really out of it; I know almost none of the songs from Weird Al’s latest polka medley.

I have to give to Rolling Stone for having a headline “5 most dangerous guns” and the article being far dumber than one could imagine.

In an era of tired stupidity on guns, Rolling Stone hit us with brand new, almost brilliant stupidity. Bravo.

Apparently gun control is so unpopular that the only ones left pushing for it are the ones not sure what a gun is.

If you think girl-Thor is going to blow people’s minds, I got a great idea: cat-Wolverine. Wolverine is now a cat. Let’s talk, Marvel.

Why is making Thor a girl a big deal? They once made him a frog. A male frog, though.

Stop Offending Me!

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Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Action Fund, said “the thought of your boss telling you what kind of birth control you can and can’t get is offensive”.

Cecile, it’s not about what you can get, it’s about what you can make someone else pay for.