The WCS Minor Circuit

But I think we should be taking the possibility of a Dick Cheney bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012 more seriously, for a run would be good for the Republicans and good for the country. (The sound you just heard in the background was liberal readers spitting out their lattes.)

— Newsweek, “Why Dick Cheney Should Run in 2012” (I thought this was written ironically, but I guess I was wrong)

29 November 2009

“I’m not going to explain what’s wrong with this caption from The Last Days of Animal Man #6 — I’ll leave it to you.” (via Polite Dissent)

“I’m not going to explain what’s wrong with this caption from The Last Days of Animal Man #6 — I’ll leave it to you.” (via Polite Dissent)

23 November 2009

SEN. LIEBERMAN: That’s right. Just to explain, once the bill is on the floor the, the only alternative—amendments will be offered, but essentially every amendment is subject to a filibuster and will take 60 votes to pass. My only resort, and, and every other senator—and there’ll be others who feel exactly the way I do about the public option. If the public option is still in there, the only resort we have is to say no at the end to reporting the bill off the floor.

— via Daily Kos (“Sunday Loon Watch”)

23 November 2009

“Veggies are all that your body needs.” (via Street Anatomy)

16 November 2009

The Leopard Seal (Hydrurga leptonyx), or The Most Frightening Thing to Roam the Ocean [Thankfully, Mostly in the Antarctic] (see Figure 1.), is a creature belonging to the family Phocidae. Given that it is the most frightening thing to roam the ocean, it is not surprising that it is the only species in its genus; all other family members obviously eliminated themselves, rather than be associated with these horrible things. Leopard Seals are, unfortunately, the second largest species of seal in the Antarctic (after Southern Elephant Seals – let’s hear it for Southern Elephant Seals!), and are near the top of the Antarctic food chain. Orcas are the only natural predators of Leopard Seals (let’s work on that, humans; perhaps Leopard Seal Killer Robots should be built), because they are the only animals large, dark, and foolish enough to take them on.

— The Leopard Seal (AKA the MOST FRIGHTENING THING TO ROAM THE OCEAN [thankfully mostly in the Antarctic])

16 November 2009

For a filmmaker whose subject was “the soul’s battlefield,” as Woody Allen once put it, Bergman had surprisingly populist tastes. He relished long gossipy telephone chats and was as likely to watch Fellini’s Amarcord as The Godfather, Pulp Fiction or the Marx Brothers’ A Night at the Opera. Screening Jurassic Park one day, he marveled at Hollywood ingenuity. “Those Americans know how to put on the pants!” he said.

They also knew how to make the television shows he liked. Bergman was a fan of the Muppets, particularly the out-of-control drummer, Animal, and rarely missed an episode of Sex and the City. “The women are beautiful, and they talk dirty,” he told [his daughter] Linn [Ullmann]. “Do you talk that way with your girlfriends?”

— Ingmar Bergman: Art & Design: Wmagazine.com (via thewilyfilipino)

16 November 2009 • reblog: thewilyfilipino

I fully expect to have a patient and or family break down when I tell them very bad news - like that someone has stage 4 cancer or a massive stroke. However, I don’t expect to have to nearly call the on-staff grief counsellor to help you get through the fact that your teenage son broke his ankle and is going to miss the football season. I don’t expect sobs and bawling that reminded me of the sounds of people watching 9/11 unfold!

Yeah, maybe he is a great football player but it better than if he rendered himself quadraplegic! Also, judging by the Bentley that followed the ambulance in, I am sure that even if he had a football scholarship, you will be able to pay for college. He will be fine. Now, here is some Ativan.

— —“Bad News” via ER Stories

4 September 2009