Happy New Year! With cats!

Drink in moderation



Behave yourself



Make sure you get home safely



And especially



(Cat reruns from years gone by)

This should be really interesting...

Bush and Blair's emails and conversations before the Iraq War will be released.

Friday Flotsam

Tom Tomorrow: a Year in Crazy part one.

Peak food and peak oil?  We're all gonna die anyway!

Omg, they've killed Sean Bean!  Again.  And again.

Mistakes were made...

Those duck guys are really yuppies... with beards.

The 'poorest' president may actually be the richest.

The future is now.  Really.

Hacking your education.

Merry Christmas

Jesus.

Tidbits

How you guys talk gives away where you are from....

Diplomacy is better than genocide, oddly.

Cats and engineers.

A cube.  That can stand on a point.  And jump.  And I need to beat it to death...

Pharmacies deliberately misinforming teenagers about emergency contraception.

Parenting done right.

Voices from prison.

Friday Follies

Mistreatment of our disabled soldiers.

Peter O'Toole.

Bankruptcy:

(Reuters) - Medical bills are behind more than 60 percent of U.S. personal bankruptcies, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday in a report they said demonstrates that healthcare reform is on the wrong track. 

More than 75 percent of these bankrupt families had health insurance but still were overwhelmed by their medical debts, the team at Harvard Law School, Harvard Medical School and Ohio University reported in the American Journal of Medicine.

Nice to finally prove the obvious: Study links BP oil spill to dolphin deaths.

Anti-bacterial soaps don't work?

It is still dangerous to be a journalist.

Asteroid Vesta close up.

Cool! Everybody can grow algae to drive their cars now!

Wonderful rant about the fake controversy dealing with those guys with beards and ducks.

To the moon, Alice!

Humans can cause earthquakes?  Does it count when the entire country eats that second helping of pie after a Thanksgiving dinner?

Beautiful timed photos of a trip in the western US.

The coldest place on earth.

The ultimate Legoland:  Rivendell.

Facts about book lovers.

China's on the Moon and there's damp spots on Mars.

Tuesday's Traumas

Fun with guns.

Dick Cheney.

The Koch machine.

What the poor must do every day.

Mary Poppin's creator was cantankerous and grumpy.  And didn't like Disney's take on her book. 

Failure and how to deal with it.

Republican's to do list.

One way to honor the children of Sandy Hook without bothering the community.

Friday Follies ... and cats.

Why do we love cats?

Bikers doing a good thing for kids.

Erik Prince hasn't gone away.

Michael the gorilla relates the story of the death of his mother.

A car mechanic develops a birthing tool.

The US alone created more than 36 million tons of food waste in 2011.  So take what you can eat, and eat what you take. And maybe let pigs eat the rest.

The Lady in Number 6:  109 year old Alice Herz Sommer – the world's oldest pianist and holocaust survivor.

Discovery of oldest human DNA in Spanish cave sheds light on evolution Scientists say DNA strands in thigh bone of 400,000-year-old early human can help build clearer picture of human family tree

Update 12/8: fixed the Michael the gorilla link. (Thanks, Steve!)

While you were out...

China decides to escalate confrontations with the US, Japan, and Korea.

The War Against Women Continues

Every day.

Why is virginity so important?

Myths that some conservatives still believe about women.

Santorum thinks his religious beliefs trump women's rights.

But sometimes women fight back:  revenge against a revenge porn instigator.