America vs Europe

They have a point. Like, a large one. :|

Christine O'Donnel

Okay, gonna say this right now: I have no idea who Christine O'Donnel is, but OHMAI is she weird!

As the former head of the clumsily named Savior’s Alliance for Lifting the Truth (SALT), O’Donnell was the Tipper Gore of the 1990s, attending lewd and lascivious rock concerts just to tell stoned, Satanist teenagers that they were going to hell. "Walking through the crowd I also noticed more pentagrams than crosses around the teenage necks," she gasped. At a 1997 music festival in Washington, D.C., the Catholic killjoy “distributed thousands of brochures with information on the failure rate of condoms, on AIDS, on sexually transmitted diseases, abortion, pornography and the movement of former homosexuals.”

WHAT WHAT WHAT WHAT WHAT
It's like going to Duke and expecting to find some dude in a UNC shirt.

(this one was made in Skitch, which is why the lines are so smooth!)
BUT YEAH
Christine O'Donnel is quite the character... ¬.¬

WARNING: EXPLICIT AND COMPLETELY CHILDISH HUMOR AHEAD

WARNING
EXTREMELY CHILDISH HUMOR AHEAD
CONTAINS SUCH WORDS AS "VAGINA," "VAGINA," "VAGINA," AND "VAGINA."
THOSE WHO ARE OFFENDED EASILY SHOULD NOT WATCH.


Kudos to the lovely Alien for thinking of me when she heard the word "vagina!"

Stephen Colbert Makes Fun of Bush to His Face

OhmyFSM, Stephen Colbert is a GENIUS.
This video must be pretty old, though-- Stephen Colbert is really young there...

GPS

XKCD

"Ground Zero Mosque" My Ass/Controversy Time! Vol. 4

Charlie Brooker on the "Ground Zero mosque":

To get to the Cordoba Centre from Ground Zero, you’d have to walk in the opposite direction for two blocks, before turning a corner and walking a bit more. The journey should take roughly two minutes, or possibly slightly longer if you’re heading an angry mob who can’t hear your directions over the sound of their own enraged bellowing.

Perhaps spatial reality functions differently on the other side of the Atlantic, but here in London, something that is “two minutes’ walk and round a corner” from something else isn’t actually “in” the same place at all. I once had a poo in a pub about two minutes’ walk from Buckingham Palace. I was not subsequently arrested and charged with crapping directly onto the Queen’s pillow. That’s how “distance” works in Britain. It’s also how distance works in America, of course, but some people are currently pretending it doesn’t, for daft political ends.

New York being a densely populated city, there are lots of other buildings and businesses within two blocks of Ground Zero, including a McDonald’s and a Burger King, neither of which has yet been accused of serving milkshakes and fries on hallowed ground. Regardless, for the opponents of Cordoba House, two blocks is too close, period. Frustratingly, they haven’t produced a map pinpointing precisely how close is OK.

That’s literally all I’d ask them in an interview. I’d stand there pointing at a map of the city. Would it be offensive here? What about here? Or how about way over there? And when they finally picked a suitable spot, I’d ask them to draw it on the map, sketching out roughly how big it should be, and how many windows it’s allowed to have. Then I’d hand them a colour swatch and ask them to decide on a colour for the lobby carpet. And the conversation would continue in this vein until everyone in the room was in tears. Myself included.

That hasn’t happened. Instead, 70% of Americans are opposed to the “Ground Zero mosque”, doubtless in many cases because they’ve been led to believe it literally is a mosque at Ground Zero. And if not . . . well, it must be something significant. Otherwise why would all these pundits be so angry about it? And why would anyone in the media listen to them with a straight face?

Via.

Just Hangin' Out Here

Oh, don't mind me, I'm just hangin' out here, nomming mah tail...

Via!

Freemason Conspiracy Theory Fail

Oooh, a conspiracy theory! Oooh, it's even got the eye-in-the-triangle! Oooh, everyone knows that's the symbol of the Freemasons!
--or, wait, no. The symbol of the Freemasons is the G with the precision cutting tool thingy over it. The eye in the triangle is the symbol of the Illuminati.


^{This is the Freemason symbol.}

Honestly, there isn't an accurate version of the Illuminati symbol on the web. All of it is the stupid dollar-bill crap. So I can't post a visual example. But it's basically an equilateral triangle with a human's right eye inside.

If you're going to make stupid claims about conspiracy theories, at least get your secret societies right. Jeez.