I managed to find this llama being fabulous from two angles.
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A Prosecutor Learns About Jail, Hopes We All Appreciate His Epiphany
As near as I can tell, Bobby Constantino means very well. The former Boston-area prosecutor has some efforts to his name aimed at facilitating people’s exit from the big house, he reached out to the classmates of a Boston Marathon bombing victim, and he went to some rather extreme lengths to protest the initial handling of the George Zimmerman case. His recent piece in The Atlantic, however, is basically the epiphany of someone who spent years sending people to jail, but only just now figured out that jail sucks. I Storified some good tweets about it (if you can’t see it embedded below, go here):
The Cat-Unicorn Theory, Tested
The question of whether cats really do love unicorn horns has finally been answered:
Dogs, however…
Megyn Kelly Must Do Humor on a Higher Level than the Rest of Us
Remember when Megyn Kelly was all in a huff about the idea that Santa (or Jesus) might not be white? Well…..psych!!! It was all a joke lol, and the problem is with us “humorless” folk who just don’t get her. As Jon Stewart put it:
What appeared to me to be another segment of Fox News expressing anger and victimization over the loss of absolute power and reframing it as persecution of real America by minorities, freeloaders and socialists was actually a jest, a jape, a bit of wise-crackery.
It’s not her fault that her humor is on such a higher level than us!!!
Anyway, it’s such a relief to know that Megyn Kelly is actually a comic character, not an actual, uh, journalist? Reporter? Anchor? News host? Television presenter? Whatever. Let us all remember her wisdom, and hope that we can make her uncomfortable every chance we can get:
You’ve All Got Fat Hearts
According to some gossip site (via Jezebel), actresses Rebel Wilson and Melissa McCarthy made “a pact to stay just the way they are.” Who knows if that’s actually true or not, but they’re both awesome regardless. Here are a bunch of GIFs of them being awesome:
Parsing Santorum
![By Lars Karlsson (Keqs) (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-2.5 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5)], via Wikimedia Commons](http://crypticphilosopher.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/800px-Keqs_young_european_hedgehog1-300x199.jpg "By Lars Karlsson (Keqs) (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-2.5 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5)], via Wikimedia Commons")
With all this idiocy, we need a bit of cute around here. Have some hedgehog.
Speaking at a Young Americans for Freedom event on Friday, former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) offered an unusual assessment of what happens when “the government is going to be the principal provider of health care for the country.” “It’s actually a pretty clever system,” the former presidential candidate explained, “Take care of the people who can vote and people who can’t vote, get rid of them as quickly as possible by not giving them care so they can’t vote against you.” [Emphasis added.]
The prevailing interpretation is that he’s saying nationalized healthcare is a way for the party in power to effectively kill people who don’t vote for them.
Look at what he said, though—while grammatically awkward, his statement allows for healthcare for “the people who can vote.” It’s the “people who can’t vote” who wouldn’t be getting healthcare, which makes no sense if the point is to stop them from voting. The only way this makes sense is if the people who aren’t voting for the party in power have already been disenfranchised somehow. Perhaps Santorum said too much here…
Or perhaps I’m overthinking the whole thing, and Rick Santorum is a fool talking out of his ass. Apply Occam’s Razor here.
Photo credit: By Lars Karlsson (Keqs) (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-2.5], via Wikimedia Commons.
The Chronicle of Biscuits
Please consider this a supplemental “Monday Morning Cute” entry, because Biscuits’ story cannot wait until next Monday.
At first I thought Biscuits was a sugar glider, but a commenter on Imgur says he is a southern flying squirrel. Either way, squee.
One picture in particular stuck with me, because dog:
In sort of a postscript to the story, this picture of a harvest mouse climbing a dandelion also appeared on Imgur today, prompting the comment “BISCUITS HAS ESCAPED!”
A Cosmic Urban Legend Meets Its Demise
I’ve often heard the story of how NASA blew millions of dollars developing a ballpoint pen that would work in space, while the Russians just used a pencil. The tale even popped up on The West Wing and in the 2004 movie Primer, but it never quite felt right. I suppose the point was to mock NASA’s large budgets and seeming inefficiency, but of all the problems with the story and the “smell test,” if you will, consider this: the moral seems to be that the Soviet space program, part of the great communist experiment of the 20th century, was somehow more efficient than the private industry-dependent American program. Ponder that for a bit.
A friend posted this picture on Facebook (h/t Paul), which led me on a brief investigation to confirm that yes, the pencil story is incomplete, if not complete bullshit:
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Monday Morning Cute: King of the Jungle
If the Constitution Gives You Religious Pluralism, Make Lemonade
Some day, conservative Christians may finally accept that they have always shared this country with people who don’t necessarily think like them, or at least that the First Amendment applies to all religions, not just theirs. Until then, we get to enjoy what may become a world-class display of religious diversity on the grounds of the Oklahoma Capitol.
Plus, we get to see how the conservative media can try to spin it in their own favor, or at least against people they don’t like. That’s how we got this delightful Washington Times headline: “Atheists smug as Hindus join Satanists to demand display at Oklahoma Statehouse.”