No Otisburg…….Yet……..

Posted on September 16, 2014 by wellsdc

The “Six Californias” initiative will not be on the ballot in 2016, after the California Secretary of State disqualified the petition for having too few legitimate signatures. I see two lessons here:

1. As karoli at Crooks and Liars says, “professional petition gatherers [are] terrible at what they do,” charging “Six Californias” mastermind Tim Draper around $1.5 million for signatures rejected by the state.

2. Trying to carve your own personal fiefdom out of the nation’s most-populous state never seems to work: Continue reading →

The Best Gift Ever

Posted on September 7, 2014 by wellsdc

This is for anyone who had a favorite stuffed animal as a kid. Or who has a favorite stuffed animal as an adult. Watch her face when she realizes that the gift from her fiancé is her childhood teddy bear.

It had (according to Imgur comments, anyway) been a baby shower gift to her mother.

This post is dedicated to Petey, who was my teddy bear.

Ironic Sexism

Posted on August 27, 2014 by wellsdc

I guess it’s the new “ironic racism” or something:

Sofia Vergara has been nominated for an Emmy four times for her work on “Modern Family.” But to the TV academy, she’s a good-looking object to put on display.

Vergara introduced television academy CEO Bruce Rosenblum, who delivered a speech about the state of television, or something — it was frankly hard to pay attention, as Vergara had stepped onto a rotating pedestal so that the audience could view her from 360 degrees. The actress is game for anything and usually makes fun of herself first (as when she made a strange joke about her unfamiliarity with American TV customs, as “Modern Family” prepares for its sixth season). Maybe she shouldn’t!

Monday Morning Cute: Dinner and a Song

Posted on August 18, 2014 by wellsdc

Some dogs aren’t picky about what they eat, but others like a bit of music to go with their meal (h/t Misty).

Huskies Take Up Contradictory Positions

Posted on August 10, 2014 by wellsdc

If you haven’t seen this ridiculously adorable video of two huskies arguing over whether or not they are going to play (with subtitles!), miss out on the joys of life no longer:

Post by OfficialHuskylovers.com.

(h/t Jason)

I don’t know if Monty Python’s “Argument Clinic” inspired the two hounds, or their presumably-human translator, but I’ll tip my hat to them as well.

RIP, James Garner

Posted on July 20, 2014 by wellsdc

You were a superb scrounger.

Dogs Sure Do Love to Play with Balls

Posted on July 17, 2014 by wellsdc

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).

There’s a cutely hilarious (I think) moment when the dog sees the giant mass of balls approaching and doesn’t know what to do. Once he realizes that they’re all for him, he calms down and begins to approach the real problem: how to play with all of them.

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 →

Isn’t it awfully nice to have a penis?

Posted on July 5, 2014 by wellsdc

The Raw Story has a list of “5 sexual health services insurance will cover… for men.”

I’m sure someone will make the arguments for the medical necessity, under whatever circumstances, of each of these five procedures, which is completely not the point of bringing up these five procedures. The issue is the way that someone is (or many someone’s are), sooner or later, going to rush to defend these five procedures as legitimate and medically necessary while still blithely dismissing various forms of women’s contraception as mere recreational implements for being a big ol’ Slutty Slutterson.

So I’ll just go ahead and get the ball rolling by making statements I know to be counter-factual, so that maybe people who are inclined to dismiss contraception as slut pills will get some smidgen of an idea of what it’s like to see demonstrably false statements treated as fact (or as “sincerely-held religious beliefs” when push comes to shove comes to science): Continue reading →

Happy Fourth of July! We’ve Brought a Flag.

Posted on July 4, 2014 by wellsdc

Just a friendly reminder that federal law proscribes certain uses of the American flag*, but has no means for enforcing those restrictions (nor are they particularly constitutional.)

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Joining us in a bit of holiday subversion is model Jessiqa Pace (photo via brytips.wordpress.com).

Also, remember: no flag, no country: Continue reading →

Crowdsurfing Is Not Consent

Posted on June 7, 2014 by wellsdc

People should not need to be reminded of this, but the mere fact that a person is crowdsurfing at a concert does not mean that you get to grope them.

I also happen to think that crowdsurfing is dumb, and a great way to hurt yourself and others—plus, I didn’t realize it had endured as a thing past the ’90s. (People don’t mosh anymore, do they?) The no-groping rule stands, regardless.

So anyway, it was refreshing to see that Staind frontman Aaron Lewis (speaking of the ’90s…) stopped a concert mid-song when he saw a young female crowdsurfer getting groped.

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