Dogs love to play—everyone knows that. Sometimes, though, they get a bit more than they bargained for, and the results are adorable. Take this dog, who gets 100 balls for his birthday and pretty much loses his mind (h/t Joe Veix).
A few years back, another dog received the gift of many, many tennis balls. This is for all the dogs out there—may they play with all the balls: Continue reading
President Obama seems to have finally figured out that the Republicans in Congress are going to oppose him no matter what he does, and now that he doesn’t have to run for president again, he might as well call it like it is. Things got pretty epic, though, when he pulled out a Scorsese/Wahlberg reference:
The truth is, even with all the actions I’ve taken this year, I’m issuing executive orders at the lowest rate in more than 100 years. So it’s not clear how it is that Republicans didn’t seem to mind when President Bush took more executive actions than I did. Maybe it’s just me they don’t like. I don’t know. Maybe there’s some principle out there that I haven’t discerned, that I haven’t figure out. You hear some of them — “sue him,” “impeach him.” Really? Really? For what? You’re going to sue me for doing my job? Okay.
I mean, think about that. You’re going to use taxpayer money to sue me for doing my job — while you don’t do your job.
There’s a great movie called “The Departed” — a little violent for kids. But there’s a scene in the movie where Mark Wahlberg — they’re on a stakeout and somehow the guy loses the guy that they’re tracking. And Wahlberg is all upset and yelling at the guy. And the guy looks up and he says, “Well, who are you?” And Wahlberg says, “I’m the guy doing my job. You must be the other guy.” Sometimes, I feel like saying to these guys, I’m the guy doing my job, you must be the other guy.
So rather than wage another political stunt that wastes time, wastes taxpayers’ money, I’ve got a better idea: Do something. If you’re mad at me for helping people on my own, let’s team up. Let’s pass some bills. Let’s help America together. [Emphasis added.]
Jason Easley at PoliticusUSA remarks, “When Obama starts quoting Marky Mark, it’s getting real.”
Shit might’ve just gotten very real.
This cat undergoes a grooming ritual by a family of deer every morning, apparently whether it wants to or not.
Via thedodo.com
As a bonus, here is a young fox that is possibly trying to groom a fellow young fox with its teeth, or is practicing a future life of fox cannibalism:
Via biomorphosis.tumblr.com
Cats just do their thing, without regard to what their humans might be doing—and then we have to stop whatever we’re doing to cater to their needs.
I’m referring, of course, to this, which is somewhat NSFW, so I won’t embed it here. It offers a chuckle, though, in a crass sort of way.
– Once again, the headline says it all: Scientist Ejected From Classical Music Concert For Trying To Crowd Surf.
See also: Punk As Fuck Scientist Ejected From Concert For Crowdsurfing to Handel.
– Same with this one: Man pleads guilty to sexually harassing women with slices of Swiss cheese.
– The world didn’t even realize how badly it needed this, until it had it: I’m referring, of course, to the bouncy castle made entirely out of boobs (h/t Tura). (I’ll mention—although it should be obvious—that the following video is somewhat NSFW.)
– Good to know: How to catch an emu, or at least get its attention:
Seriously, are you going to tell these birds they can’t do something? I don’t think they’d listen. They might just cut you instead.
This fall will mark the 10th anniversary of the premiere of Lost on ABC. The show holds some sort of iconic status, which is mostly deserved—particularly for whetting people’s appetite for long-form serial TV shows and stringing a mystery along for years. Shows like Game of Thrones owe a certain debt to Lost. (Spoilerish stuff ahead.)
All of that said, I don’t know of anyone who didn’t feel, at minimum, disappointed by Lost‘s conclusion. As series finales go, it was pretty low on the hierarchy of awesomeness. (Compare, for example, the moral closure of Breaking Bad or the world-changing subversion of destiny of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.)
The show also created some interesting and memorable characters, but only a few of them really got a good character arc. Sawyer in particular comes to mind. Most of the time, the characters existed solely in service of the plot, which is not a bad thing when the plot knows where it is going. John Locke, as portrayed by Terry O’Quinn, could have been a legendary television character, but wasn’t. To be fair, Lost was an ensemble show, rather than a character-driven show like Breaking Bad, which created numerous memorable characters in the service of telling one person’s story. Ensemble shows are capable of creating incredibly powerful character arcs, though, as evidenced by The Walking Dead‘s Carol Peletier (Melissa McBride). Continue reading
