BP poisoned the Gulf. Life there is still suffering.

A study of 32 dolphins were

underweight, anaemic and suffering from lung and liver disease, while nearly half had low levels of a hormone that helps the mammals deal with stress as well as regulating their metabolism and immune systems.

Obamacare has impacted hospitals in a good way

Chris Hayes has the info.

Radiation? What radiation?

The government wouldn't lie to their own people in such a dangerous situation, would they? ... Apparently they would, they did, and they will. Fukushima No. 2 Reactor Has '10 Times The Fatal Dose' of Radiation. Meanwhile, Original Contamination Data Was Deleted The whole world was watching, taking aerial samples, checking the seawater, and we knew that it was horribly horribly bad. It's still horribly horribly bad and will remain so forever. Japan just lost a massive chunk of their island because of their nuclear program. How many accidents and disasters do we have to go through before we realize we can't handle nuclear power plant mistakes? How much more of the earth do we have to make uninhabitable?

How I feel about the Supreme Court....

GAH!!

Mozart, Monsanto and kittens!

So Denmark will be functional when all the rest of us are in the dark.... and interested in going solar? Why power generators are terrified of solar

Fleeing from zombies is fun and good exercise!

Mr. Etch A Sketch vs Mr. Etched in Stone.

A bit of the newly found Mozart.

Poland gets mad about dead bees and Monsanto

All about ALEC and what it is doing to this country.

Fucking Fracking.

Scientists Build a Camera That Sees Around Corners

Eating chocolate could actually help you lose weight... well, okay then!!

And then there are kittens...

No BPA in food packaging!

Tell the FDA.

Today would have been the 100th birthday of Wernher von Braun

(from Boing Boing)

The thing is...

These kind of quotes are piling up daily, as if a dam has broken and all the sexism and hatred is flooding out for all to see.  These attitudes didn't suddenly spring up, they have been seeping up from deep underground for decades.  Fear of losing imagined dominance, fear of being emasculated, fear of powerful women who do not need men to live their lives....  if only those damned hussies would just get back into the kitchen....



(via Steve Bates)

Says it all

And then some.

From Swedes to Sketches...

Scandinavian humor (with explanations!)

And of course, if we discuss Sweden at all, we must include: (bork bork bork)

   

Prehistoric monster snake invades New York. Think I saw this movie....

The true cost of coal:

This presents a bit of a challenge, given that the Appalachian communities where the mining takes place are extremely poor, and poverty and low education are associated with a lot of health problems. In addition, many of the problems associated with coal mining—particulates from the mining process and water contamination—don't respect the county borders that divide up the health care data. But even after adjusting for the variations in things like income and education, counties with active coal mines came out far worst in many measures of health. These include the problems you'd expect from mining, such as cardiopulmonary and respiratory issues, black lung, hypertension, and kidney disease. But they also include things like a 25 percent increase in birth defects in mining counties. Ahern summed up the fate of people located near mines rather grimly: "Their property value goes down to zero, then they get ill, then they die."

Shutting down a California Monsanto office for a day.

Etch a Sketch will live on now in perpetuity ....

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,

Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
The rights of women.

How napping could save your life.

How the Fundamentalist Mind Compels Conservative Christians to Force Their Beliefs on You: Good people are willing to subvert the U.S. Constitution and even violate human decency in their quest for converts.

 The Military Religious Freedom Foundation is fighting against the religious extremists and their agenda to take over the military.

Rush is clueless how to treat women.

ANCIENT ‘ICEMAN’ MUMMY TRACES ANCESTRY FROM ALPS TO MEDITERRANEAN

Cradle robbers... by religious creeps.

Examining His Own Body, Stanford Geneticist Stops Diabetes in Its Tracks

And after the Irish dinner.... corned beef hash!

Remember to say I love you

Whenever you can


 

Just don't throw bottles and get into brawls...

Happy March 17th and all that comes with it

Monsanto, Bank of America, Bees, and Cavemen...

Monsanto Found Guilty of Chemical Poisoning in France 

Honeybee Deaths Linked to Corn Insecticides

Corn insecticide linked to great die-off of beneficial honeybees

Bank of America: Too Crooked to Fail

US e-voting system cracked in less than 48 hours

Cave Fossil Find: New Human Species or "Nothing Extraordinary"? 

Transvaginal postings....

Laced with a bit of sarcasm... 

Arizona out-crazies other contraception bills. Use birth control, get fired.

 But fair is fair, right? Women legislators turn the tables and introduce bills regulating men's reproductive health

And a handy chart to help you know who to blame for Republicans helplessly haring off after women's reproductive rights....

Because bullies grow up to be CEOs and legislators

And people in power...

Removing Doonesbury from the comics page

To the editorial page (or censoring it all together) because he's not marching in lockstep with the anti-choicers?  It's too true to be funny?  It will scare the children?  Make the kids ask for explanations? It makes fun of middle-aged male legislators?  All of the above?

It's over 80 degrees in Southern California today....

So I thought I'd post a picture of a kitten in the snow for all you guys with actual winter....

 

Is it my imagination....

Or is the world becoming more and more crazy by the minute?

 

Musical architecture

One year anniversary of the Japanese quake.

Island nation of Kiribati plans mass relocation due to climate change

Top Rabbi believes Catholic Church is imposing Sharia Law on Americans over contraception

How to read gang tags and disses on LA streets

via Bryan, Iran will have the bomb... yesterday, today, any minute now....

Five hundred new fairytales discovered in Germany

I think I have found the way to stop wars.  Flood the area with kittens.

Study: Hate of Obama fuels 755% growth in extremist groups

Unlike traditional hate groups, “Patriot” groups subscribe to a set of conspiracy theories and see the government as their primary enemy. 

“Basically what ‘Patriot’ groups think is that the federal government is an evil cabal in the hands of bad people,” Potok explained. “The government is about to impose martial law on the country, very probably with the help of foreign troops, perhaps U.N. troops. They intend to confiscate all guns from Americans. Those liberty-loving Americans who resisted will be thrown into concentration camps that have secretly constructed by FEMA. And ultimately the government will force us all into a socialistic kind of one-world government, the so-called New World Order.”

The more things change, the more they stay the same.... Kansas Republicans look to profit off abortion taxes

Gee... I wonder why? Aren't Republicans the party of family values? No love for the GOP among America's women...  Could it be because people feel free to call this 16 year old a slut?

Arizona follows Utah and Virginia off the cliff

Arizona:Arizona Senate Passes Bill Allowing Doctors To Not Inform Women Of Prenatal Issues To Prevent Abortions

Virginia: Va. governor signs pre-abortion ultrasound bill

The rest of the states are under attack....

The Religious Right's Plot To Take Control Of Our Public Schools

The people who brought you "Jesus Camp" are moving into your neighborhood school. And there's not a damn thing you can do about it.

Why are the Dark Ages so attractive to some?

Entering into the era of stupid.

Because women are unable to know what is best for them?

Lindsay Beyerstein notes the hypocrisy:VA Gives the Game Away With Rape Exception for Ultrasound Bill

We're all gonna die!

Blast it or paint it: Deadly asteroid bounds towards Earth out of the blue

To avert a new apocalypse – this time set for February 2013 – scientists suggest confronting asteroid 2012 DA14 with either paint, or big guns. The tough part of either scheme is that time has long run out to build a spaceship for any operation. NASA confirms the 60-meter (197-feet) asteroid, spotted by Spanish stargazers in February, has a good chance of colliding with Earth in eleven months. The rock's closest approach to the planet is scheduled for February 15, 2013, when the distance between the planet and space wanderer will be under 27,000 km (16,700 miles). This is lower than the geosynchronous orbit kept by the Google Maps satellite.

Imagine an ocean with nothing in it...

Ocean acidification may be worst in 300 million years

WASHINGTON — High levels of pollution may be turning the planet’s oceans acidic at a faster rate than at any time in the past 300 million years, with unknown consequences for future sea life, researchers said Thursday. The acidification may be worse than during four major mass extinctions in history when natural pulses of carbon from asteroid impacts and volcanic eruptions caused global temperatures to soar, said the study in the journal Science.