Bits and pieces...

Making sure that Romney wins Ohio the Republican way... by voter registration fraud.

Being blackmailed into voting for Romney.  (Krugman)

Air New Zealand and the Hobbit

HFCS or high fructose corn syrup.

What to do when your car falls into the drink.

Making sure the revolution happens.

How does the Queen answer the phone?

What do you do for a friend who is facing death?

The Hobbit

I have to wait another YEAR??

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.

YAAAYYYY!!



Keeping track on Peter Jackson's facebook.

The Hobbit

WELLINGTON, New Zealand – Filming has started on director Peter Jackson's production of "The Hobbit" in New Zealand.

For those who have time on their hands

And an intense love of the Lord of the Rings.... make your own Bag End...

(click pic for link)

Blog sprinkles

The manners and etiquette of President Barack Obama. (The pictures are charming.)

And Obama's talent for nuance.

Yoo who, exactly? Mapaghimagsik shows us. And one woman who saw what SERE torture training did to her boyfriend.

I knew it! Limbaugh is a space alien! Mysterious blob found near dawn of time.

Conficker worm is still lurking:

The Conficker worm's creators are evidently toying with ways to put the pervasive computer virus to work firing off spam or spreading rogue anti-virus applications called "scareware."

More on the plastic continents we are creating in the Pacific Ocean:

There are now 46,000 pieces of plastic per square kilometre of the world's oceans, killing a million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals each year. Worse still, there seems to be nothing we can do to clean it up.

Blue Girl from They Gave Us A Republic warns us what might be next:

I can only assume that a significant story about wildlife is barreling down the pike Look at it this way...First the republicans mocked volcano monitoring, and then Mt. Redoubt rumbled to life. Then they slashed flu pandemic preparedness from the budget and the swine flu made a comeback. That the republicans have decided to mock wildlife spending this week does not bode well for the cranes and snow leopards and other endangered species next week.

Ways to survive a pandemic? Wash your hands, don't hang out in crowds.

Fox works hard on spreading fear!! and panic!!:



Swine flu: what did you expect?

Hawaiian spider insists on being friendly:



I don't care how much it smiles, I'm still getting the fly swatter!

Homeless hobbits.


Bush:

War crimes will be prosecuted, war criminals will be punished and it will be no defense to say, “I was just following orders.”

Alrighty then!!

But... the Bush administration thought that torture was a really good idea!