Christmas contraceptives

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

Excellent overview of 2014.  Best science photos for 2014.

Weird methane readings on Mars... ALIENS!!!1

Bernie Sanders takes on the Koch brothers.

Saint Ronnie couldn't get elected dog catcher in these interesting teabaggery times...

Tampons may save your life...

If you can erase the word, the action never happened.  Right?

Institutionalized racism is hard to root out.

Chipping away at contraceptives.  And women aren't choosing to have more babies, they're just wiser with their birth control methods.  Cutting through the deliberately confusing terminology used when discussing abortion.

Christmas is coming

My house is a wreck but at least we have the tree up.  Although it IS leaning a bit to the left....

Why is it that my kids' finals and helping research for internships means a pile of files being searched for transcripts and heaps of papers fluttering about while stepping over stacks of books and trying to get Christmas lists filled means finally giving cash to family members instead of trying to make sense of their Amazon wish lists while laundry heaps twitchily become sentient and move slowly towards the door.

At least I got the dishes done.  I couldn't see the faucet.

From brilliance to unraveling, the human condition.

The Mysterious Antikythera Mechanism Is More Ancient Than We Thought

Why cats don't give a shit about you.

Coats into sleeping bags, and homeless into workers at the same time.

9 clueless things white people say when confronted with racism

When Australians label the states in the USA.  Or Brits.

Neil deGrasse Tyson proving why he's a cool dude.

Didn't they read The Secret of NIMH?

The ending of the world.

An excellent creche.

Fascinating and sad view of the Iraqi army.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Bad Lip Reading:  the NFL.

Hilarious take down of mis-information about flying.

Legal attempts to try and control pregnant women.

The era of stupid.

Just HOW many pipeline spills have there in been in Alberta in the last FOUR months?

Update, via Bryan, As God as my witness,I thought turkeys fly.

For those who build or fix their own computers

A bit of therapy.

Fukushima, the Berlin Wall and Cat Calling. And thank you, vets.

Can we swim in the Pacific Ocean and eat the fish without being afraid of the Fukushima radiation?

The Berlin Wall in interactive pictures.

Catcalling explained.  Kind of.  (Love the woman's expression.)

 BLM government employees are being attacked.

John Oliver takes apart ALEC and state legislatures.

How much food is wasted in landfills?  Too much.

PTSD explained.  And thank you for your service needs to mean something.

Get money out of our political process.

Net Neutrality explained

By Oatmeal to educate Ted Cruz.

The next two years.... and maybe more.

Vote like your life depends on it. Which it does.

VOTE.  Because people are trying to take that right away from you.  By people like these guys.

To a rabid conservative, voter fraud is any Democrat voting....

Purging of voters.