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That's A Joke, Son Foghorn Leghorn: "Lookit here son, I say son, did ya see that hawk after those hens? He scared 'em! That Rhode Island Red turned white. Then blue. Rhode Island. Red, white, and blue. That's a joke, son. A flag waver. You're built too low. The fast ones go over your head. Ya got a hole in your glove. I keep pitchin' 'em and you keep missin' 'em. Ya gotta keep your eye on the ball. Eye. Ball. I almost had a gag, son. Joke, that is." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JtnEUPvpus Originally shared by Amanda Park This is brilliant, and ridiculous to pull it. http://cbldf.org/2016/07/pearls-before-swine-strip-pulled-for-isis-reference/ http://cbldf.org/2016/07/pearls-before-swine-strip-pulled-for-isis-reference

Putting The Individual Customer First Something US financial institutions are spectacularly bad at... via +Ralf Haring Originally shared by Chris Jones """ When trying to figure out who’s to blame, you end up with a weirdly tangled web of misaligned incentives. Almost everyone involved—banks, credit-card companies, retailers and merchants, payment processors, terminal manufacturers—have been focused on their own bottom lines, rather than the impact their decisions will have on customers. And that’s created a maelstrom of incompetence. """ http://qz.com/717876/the-chip-card-transition-in-the-us-has-been-a-disaster/

Safe Harbor Started out inauspiciously, with light and variable winds. Built up a bit, and then got pinched in between competing thunderstorms. Had changed down to the #3, and rode out the first gust front handily, although with considerable weather helm. Things eased up a bit, and flying the asym was discussed, when the second storm broke over us, and we broke a halyard and skated around a bit. Got busy fixing stuff, and later discovered a forward stanchion had punched through the deck. Took second place, and a few bumps and bruises to take home.

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Jawjacking I'm a flip flopper. Used to be down, but now I'm up. Not my choice, as someone else will be on the pointy end today.

Old And In The Way via George Station Originally shared by Lauren Weinstein Confirmed and Unacceptable: Social Security Administration Cutting Off Users Who Can’t Receive Text Messages https://lauren.vortex.com/2016/07/ssa-cutting-off-users-who-cant-receive-text-messages If you don’t have a cell phone, or some other means to receive SMS text messages (and have them enabled, and know how to deal with them), you won’t be able to access your Social Security Administration “My Social Security” online account starting next month. The SSA is currently sending out emails announcing that SSA online users MUST receive an SMS text message with a two-factor authentication code to access their accounts starting in August. According to Congressional testimony in May, SSA “expects” to make other two-factor methods available at some point in the future. While the “expectation” of additional two-factor options at some unspecified time down the line is interesting, the move to now block users who do no...

Voices Carry "What's With The Hair?" 'Til Tuesday-Voices Carry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uejh-bHa4To

Dial A Joke Get Into The Runout Groove, Man... via George Station  Originally shared by Bjarke Frost Nielsen (Tore Nielsen: Speaking of feeling old :-P ) http://www.fowllanguagecomics.com/comic/broken-record/

Chicken In The Pot Doyt, Doyt... Rickie Lee Jones-Danny's All Star Joint: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JkT3p6H4Ws Gotta Go, Gotta Go... http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20000917&slug=4042937 Originally shared by David McKeever

Short People Got no reason... http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/07/27/487391773/americans-are-shrinking-while-chinese-and-koreans-sprout-up Randy Newman-Short People: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NvgLkuEtkA http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/07/27/487391773/americans-are-shrinking-while-chinese-and-koreans-sprout-up

ROBERT MCGINNIS SAID YES And the publisher ran out of books to sell. Originally shared by Pulp Covers @neilhimself hired Robert McGinnis (currently 90 years old) to paint new covers for his books. If you like that sort of thing. http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2016/07/robert-e-mcginnis-and-secret-of-new.html http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2016/07/robert-e-mcginnis-and-secret-of-new.html

Peace Of Mind Devices Originally shared by Kam-Yung Soh Takeaway message. Don't put important things into your check-in luggage. Those "TSA-Approved" luggage locks can basically be opened by anyone and the TSA doesn't care. "The TSA, as you’ll remember, offers a set of screener-friendly locks. These locks use one of seven master keys that only the TSA can use — until 2014. In an article in The Washington Post, a reporter included a shot of all seven keys on a desk. It wasn’t long before nearly all the keys were made available for 3D printing and, last week, security researchers released the final key. [...] The TSA, for their part, doesn’t care, telling The Intercept that “The reported ability to create keys for TSA-approved suitcase locks from a digital image does not create a threat to aviation security. These consumer products are ‘peace of mind’ devices, not part of TSA’s aviation security regime.” In other words, you might as well not use locks at all....

Mad Man Originally shared by Comic Crusaders EC Comic And Mad Magazine Artist Jack Davis Passes Away, Aged 91, #RIP

Knock On Wood And toss some salt over your left shoulder... http://sharonrandall.com/2016/07/good-bad-painful-column-tues-july-18-2016/

A Real Hero "Lenny [Bruce] paved the way for all of us," Redd Foxx said in the sixties. After another comic agreed that Bruce was a "real hero," Foxx added, "But you got to remember one thing: Heroes ain't born. They're cornered."

It's A Curious Thing Huey Lewis & The News-The Power Of Love: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkAVfsw5xSQ http://www.humansofnewyork.com/post/147958010026/my-father-was-a-fascist-he-was-trained-to-be-a

End Time The Exit of A Exigent Eschatologist. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/07/26/books/tim-lahaye-a-christian-fundamentalist-leader-dies-at-90.html?referer=

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"Not until the development of the ten-megabyte hard disk" "...would the world ever know such a fabulous toy." John McPhee's most anthologized piece of writing... http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1997/05/12/silk-parachute

Making A Gossip Ladder "You also had to describe a piece of abstract art on campus. It was an invitation to overwriting. As McPhee put it, “Most writers do a wild skid, leave the road, and plunge into the dirty river.” Novice writers believe they will improve a piece of writing by adding things to it; mature writers know they will improve it by taking things out." https://paw.princeton.edu/article/writing-master

The Thing That Will Not Go Away "The thing that will not go away," McPhee tells his students, when asked about the future of reading and writing, "is books. Everything I'm doing is rooted in the idea that there are no two writers alike; no one will write the way you do. You are dealing with yourself. The voice you are fighting to develop is your own." Like Bolie, I'm trying hard to believe, but I've seen too many good bookstores close in the last decade. It's hard. http://articles.latimes.com/2010/feb/28/entertainment/la-ca-john-mcphee28-2010feb28/

Omission What do you leave out? John McPhee: “A person has a right to make a pun once in a while, and even to be a little coarse.” Also, it should be noted that Food Machinery Corporation now makes tanks. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/09/14/omission

The Control Of Nature Whither goes the river, there goes Morgan City. Is it merely a coincidence that the Old River Control Structure and Angola Prison are neighbors? http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1987/02/23/atchafalaya https://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/americas-achilles-heel-the-mississippi-rivers-old-river-control-st http://www.johnweeks.com/river_mississippi/pages/lmiss23.html http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2011/06/03/old-river-and-the-mississippi-river-control/ http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2011/05/15/morganza-floodway-opens-inundating-11000-buildings-and-22500-people-in-bid-to-save-new-orleans/ http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/data/uploads/2011/05/w-spillway.jpg http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1987/02/23/atchafalaya

2 Kings 3:16 KJV "Thus saith the Lord, Make this valley full of ditches." via Robert Rambusch and John Cook  Dixie Dregs-Dig The Ditch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkas_3t73vk http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/americas-last-top-model/

The Ablation Zone Originally shared by Damn interesting Crisis on high: A climate disaster that will impact the lives of more than 1 billion people http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-25/climate-change-the-third-pole-under-threat/7657672

Ghost Singer Originally shared by lynn paden interesting curio from the late marni nixon. apparently this was used to help other vocalists dub "the sound of music" songs. (she was sister sophia in that movie.) i wish she had had more opportunities to show her talent.... suck a lovely lady. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/26/arts/music/marni-nixon-singer-soprano-dies-86.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImH1EGcWbmk&feature=share

Power Station Keeping things cool is getting harder to do this summer, as a local substation fire demonstrates... The good news is that we won't actually have enough juice for SkyNet to achieve Singularity and Run The World at the same time. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1498750/computers-will-use-more-electricity-than-the-entire-world-can-generate-by-2040-tech-experts-claim/ Power Station-Some Like It Hot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw1t7OCESUw Worth noting that Tula/Caroline Cossey appeared in this video: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trans-supermodel-1980s-caroline-cossey_us_575b03dce4b0e39a28ad822e

Total Protonic Reversal Isn't always a bad thing. Went to see the new that "tentpole genre film starring women" Ghostbusters. It was thoroughly enjoyable. I had to laugh at myself when I noticed how flipping some of the role play seemed jarring to me. Not because it was done badly, but because it wasn't pandering to me . How dare they! Ha! I enjoyed the original Ghostbusters immensely, but I was raised on early horror schlock and National Lampoon. That movie was made for my tribe. Definitely worth seeing. Stylish, punchier, lots of laughs. Here's what Reitman had to say: http://www.salon.com/2015/10/27/ivan_reitman_on_directing_the_original_ghostbuster_and_why_fans_will_be_very_very_happy_with_the_female_centric_reboot/ And further after action reports here: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/19/movies/so-thats-who-you-call-the-politics-of-the-new-ghostbusters.html http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/15/movies/ghostbusters-review-melissa-mccarthy-kristen-wiig.html

The Mistake By The Lake http://doonesbury.washingtonpost.com/strip/archive/2016/7/24

Boys Of Summer

Originally shared by Randy Culler Duelin' Banjos Commentary from Frank Beacham  Though Ronny Cox is closely associated with “Dueling Banjos” in the 1972 film, Deliverance, there is far more to the story than the scene on screen. "Dueling Banjos" was an instrumental composition by Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith. It was composed in 1955 by Smith as a banjo instrumental he called "Feudin' Banjos," which contained riffs from "Yankee Doodle." Smith recorded it playing a four-string plectrum banjo and accompanied by five-string bluegrass banjo player, Don Reno. The composition's first wide scale airing was on a 1963 television episode of The Andy Griffith Show called "Briscoe Declares for Aunt Bee," in which it is played by the visiting musical family, the Darlings, played by The Dillards, a bluegrass group. The song was made famous by the 1972 film, Deliverance, which also led to a successful lawsuit by the song's composer, as ...

I See My Light Come Shining http://www.markbode.com/site/article_2.html http://muckraker-gg.blogspot.com/2013/04/remembering-vaughns-world.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRZZhTUCV7I

Cheech Wizard "No matter how hard you shake it..." Vaughn Bodē (July 22, 1941 – July 18, 1975) was an underground cartoonist and illustrator known for his character Cheech Wizard and his artwork depicting voluptuous women. A contemporary of Ralph Bakshi, Bodē has been credited as an influence on Bakshi's animated films Wizards and The Lord of the Rings. Bodē has a huge following among graffiti artists. Bodē was inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame for comics artists in 2006. John Figler said: "Vaughn Bodé was the National Lampoon's Dave Berg. You had to wonder in both cases whether the artists had photos of the editor and/or publisher in compromising positions with a domestic animal." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaughn_Bod%C4%93 http://www.markbode.com/site/vaughnbode.html

Three Is A Magic Number https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU4pyiB-kq0 via Gaffer Venar  Originally shared by Jason Forbes http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/07/how-a-guy-from-a-montana-trailer-park-upturned-150-years-of-biology/491702/

Obviously Not A People Person Originally shared by Tim O'Brien Trouble brewing at the Soylent Green factory...

Eat Your Own (Artisanal) Dogfood In (The Phantom Tollbooth's) Dictionopolis, Milo is left hungry because he doesn't know how to order properly: "I didn't know that I was going to have to eat my words." Originally shared by **** One man. Five days. 15 brands ... and the ravages of nature. For the promo, "Living Off the Brands," copywriter Lee Kimball is spending five days in the wild, for survival using only the brands the agency has on its roster ... which incidentally doesn't include any food accounts besides a chocolate brand. http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/agency-sends-copywriter-wilderness-live-exclusively-its-clients-brands-5-days-172566

Take A Walk On The Wild Side We, too, have put the spreader in the water, under spinnaker. Crossed the finish line that way, once, to everyone's entertainment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmcP1czZ3pI

The Big Finish Jim Wright. Again. https://www.facebook.com/Stonekettle/posts/1054698021232267

Please, Can I Keep It? Isn't it adorable? Sandra Boynton/Laura Linney: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI-MyGWWi34 Originally shared by Tim O'Brien

Originally shared by Grand Comics Database Garry Trudeau (born 21 July 1948, USA) is the creator of the Doonesbury comic strip, which features strong political and social commentary by its broad cast of characters. In 1975, he became the first comic strip artist to win a Pulitzer Prize, traditionally awarded to editorial-page cartoonists. He was also a Pulitzer finalist in 1990. At Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Trudeau At Comiclopedia — https://www.lambiek.net/artists/t/trudeau.htm In the GCD — http://ow.ly/V5Kc302s6Gm

Yeff! Finally! Originally shared by All Things Linguistic Good news! We finally have an official answer for how to... #linguistics http://allthingslinguistic.com/post/147720486717?utm_content=buffer43b45&utm_medium=social&utm_source=plus.google.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Brexit Blues A long read, but worth it. So much of our present world "does not mean what you think it means", which makes clearer, simpler lies compelling. That, and wishful thinking. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n15/john-lanchester/brexit-blues

Stopping The Signal Apple apparently helped to rat him out. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/07/kickasstorrents-alleged-founder-artem-vaulin-arrested-in-poland/?comments=1

"...In A Place That Isn’t Used To Bragging About Itself." Originally shared by Robert Rambusch City of Light, City of Magic http://www.wsj.com/articles/cleveland-invents-a-new-bagel-hits-new-york-with-schmear-campaign-1468861268

Think On These Things "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.” Phillipians 4:8. http://sharonrandall.com/2016/07/mostly-good-world-column-july-12-2016/

Church Of The Sub-Doofus Probably a rogue branch of Kibology, if you ask me... Originally shared by Meg L Step right up! Ethan Persoff has an unbeatable offer. We will be adding new tracts every day during the week of the Republican National Convention. If you're in Cleveland, consider printing these out and putting them places (like a stack left at a coffee shop, or in the bathroom at a $30,000/plate dinner) or hand-distributing these out in public to others. http://www.ep.tc/trump-tracts/

Ben-Hur-Hur via Karen Conlin  Originally shared by Laura Brodbeck https://twitter.com/bakedboons/status/755557104669327360

Eight Days A Week 3D Model of Apollo 11 Command Module. http://3d.si.edu/apollo11cm/

Yippies Unite! I'm voting Groucho Marxist. You should, too. Originally shared by **** Thanks to you I no longer fear Republicans, and I no longer believe in the progressive potential of the Democratic Party. I no longer feel that I have to vote for any Democrat just to keep a Republican out. You like things the way they are, no less than the Republicans, and pretending to give a damn about social issues will keep us voting for you like robots every time. But you can’t afford to actually fix the problems because then you wouldn’t be able to scare us into voting for you. You don’t even really want to fix those problems. You have just as much contempt and hatred for the peasantry, for civil rights, for democracy, as do the Republicans, and you only pretend to care because it’s a convenient tool to get people to vote for you without thinking. http://theprogressivewing.com/i-feel-so-free-thank-you-hillary/

Tune In Moon landing broadcast start: 4:10:30 pm EDT on July 20 Moon landing shown: 4:17:40 pm EDT Moon landing broadcast end: 4:20:15 pm EDT Moon walk broadcast start: 10:51:27 pm EDT First step on Moon: 10:56:15 pm EDT Nixon speaks to the Eagle crew: approx 11:51:30 pm EDT Moon walk broadcast end: 12:00:30 pm EDT on July 21 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E96EPhqT-ds Originally shared by Kam-Yung Soh "New York Times OTD‏@OnThisDayNYT The front page #OTD in 1969. Apollo 11 swings into the Moon's orbit in preparation for today's landing. #nytimes" https://mobile.twitter.com/OnThisDayNYT/status/755734215207981057

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Fireflies One hazards a guess that they are not UL approved, but lovely, nonetheless. May have to try to make some of these. In colors. Also, could not help thinking about Yma Sumac. Originally shared by Al Tlön http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2016/07/origami-bird-lights-by-umat-yamac/

Eat Bacon, Don't Jog Grant Peterson is a piece of work. I don't always agree with him, but I'm usually interested in what he has to say. He's made some nice bikes. "This is your brain on Grant Petersen: Every comfortable assumption you have about a subject is turned upside down, and by the time you finish reading you feel challenged, energized, and smarter." http://cycloculture.blogspot.com/2008/08/grant-petersen.html http://eatbacondontjog.com/

Sh*t Fire! Jim Wright, of Stonekettle Station fame, pens a screed about the safe and sanitary operation of a wonder of American technology, the incinolet. Because it reminded him of something else... https://www.facebook.com/Stonekettle/posts/1052864324748970

Brazen John Forester, author of Effective Cycling (and son of C.S. Forester), once again pisses everyone off by being right. I identify strongly with crotchety old engineers who are right. Sometimes I are one. Be sure to read the comments... https://pvcycling.wordpress.com/2016/07/16/the-stubbornness-of-a-good-idea/

Violence Is Golden Won't you try this personal bazooka Make you feel like a man Show the little girls what's what By the size of the thunder in your hands John Fogerty-Violence Is Golden: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYXLpq-0ZIQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYXLpq-0ZIQ

Am IDIC And sniggering about it... http://ratscape.deviantart.com/art/Once-Upon-a-Time-on-Vulcan-366064986 via George Station  http://ratscape.deviantart.com/art/Once-Upon-a-Time-on-Vulcan-366064986

Drop The Pilot Joan Armatrading-Drop The Pilot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rIOQBc1ee0 http://www.popularmechanics.com/adventure/news/a21836/viking-ship-might-be-defeated-by-us-coast-guard/

"Who's Gonna Take The Garbage Out?" John Prine is going to release another album of duets, 'For Better, Or Worse,' on September 30th, featuring the voices of Iris DeMent, Miranda Lambert, Kacey Musgraves, Lee Ann Womack and Kathy Mattea. "I told Iris, "I want you to listen to this and just see. It's got a few questionable things in it that you're gonna have to say. So you just tell me whether you would want to do it or not. We'll leave it at that." So I didn't hear from her for three weeks. Nothing. Finally I called her and I said, "Iris?" And she said, "Yes?" I said, "Well?" And she said, "Not while my mother's alive!" Then she ended up doing it anyway." http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2016/07/15/486033177/john-prine-to-release-new-duets-album-for-better-or-worse

#NotRightFoods Heh. Next, y'all be telling me that the real Kobe beef is being massaged with Korean rice wine... Y'all should consider adopting a Genuwine White Trash Diet, because there ain't much advantage in faking what the bottom rung eats... http://nypost.com/2016/07/10/the-truth-behind-how-were-scammed-into-eating-phony-food/

Pop Tart Treasures "Made With Genetic Engineering."

Prop Tart Treasures Prizes from the Warehouse Sale at UNCSA.

You Get Old, You Don't Get Cold "A few years ago, she served as a lookout for a man who had two girlfriends. He never got caught. “I did my job well,” Ms. Dunnion said. “Nurses wear many hats.” http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/13/nyregion/too-old-for-sex-not-at-this-nursing-home.html?mwrsm=GooglePlus

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Bailout The Feebs done give up: https://www.fbi.gov/seattle/press-releases/2016/update-on-investigation-of-1971-hijacking-by-d.b.-cooper https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/07/12/the-d-b-cooper-case-has-baffled-the-fbi-for-45-years-now-it-may-never-be-solved/

Unpacking The Packing Problem via Kam-Yung Soh Originally shared by Quanta Magazine Scientists are exploring a mysterious pattern found throughout nature that is neither regular nor random. Dubbed “hyperuniformity,” it is found in the distribution of color-sensitive cone cells in bird retinas, helping give birds their incredible vision. It also pops up in quasicrystals, the large-scale structure of the universe, and many other systems. The explanation for its ubiquity is a work in progress. https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160712-hyperuniformity-found-in-birds-math-and-physics

Who Is This Kid? BANGO!

MIRG Managed Intensive Rotational Grazing... Originally shared by Ralf Haring "The thing to do? Take some of the islands' 80,000-odd sheep and mount 360-degree cameras on their backs. Andreassen's organization calls it "Sheep View 360." Andreassen receives the ovine-sourced images with GPS coordinates, which she then uploads to Google Street View." https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/07/12/tired-of-waiting-on-google-maps-faroe-islanders-initiate-sheep-view/

Red, Red Wine UB40-Red Red Wine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXt56MB-3vc via Robert Rambusch  http://altonbrown.com/cheerwine-sangria-recipe/

Burn, Baby! BURN! Quoth Magnificent Montague... Originally shared by Irina T. Apollo 11 | The source code for the Apollo 11 Guidance Computer "When programmers at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory set out to develop the flight software for the Apollo 11 space program in the mid-1960s, the necessary technology did not exist. They had to invent it." [...] As enormous and successful as Burkey’s project has been, however, the code itself remained somewhat obscure to many of today’s software developers. That was until last Thursday (July 7), when former NASA intern Chris Garry uploaded the software in its entirety to GitHub, the code-sharing site where millions of programmers hang out these days." If of interest go to: https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/ http://qz.com/726338/the-code-that-took-america-to-the-moon-was-just-published-to-github-and-its-like-a-1960s-time-capsule/

"Jesus Loves You" "...can be very comforting words, unless you hear them in a Mexican prison." Kinky Friedman For President! http://rol.st/1iuOGcu

Arnie's Army http://jalopnik.com/5746260/1974-cadillac-is-a-long-drive-for-arnold-palmer Originally shared by Tim O'Brien

T Is For... Torn Tire Tuesday!

Sometimes You Just Need A Counterspy Outfit Originally shared by Scout Paget https://atomicscout.wordpress.com/2016/07/12/sometimes-you-just-need-a-counterspy-outfit

The Law Won't Stand For That Originally shared by Al Tlön "Here’s a collection of totally ridiculous vintage postcards and posters dated from around 1900 to 1914 warning men of the dangers associated with the suffragette movement and of allowing women to think for themselves. I think my favorite is the postcard where the woman is pinching the man’s ear and forcing him to clean the home. The nerve of her to request such a thing!" http://dangerousminds.net/comments/absurd_propaganda_postcards_warning_men_about_the_dangers_of_womens_rights

Architect of Happiness And his City of Lost Children... https://alastairgordonwalltowall.com/2011/12/26/andrew-geller-architect-of-happiness-1924-2011/ http://www.treehugger.com/green-architecture/andrew-geller-architect-happiness-1924-2011.html

Save Our Saucepans Notably, no womenfolk were part of the debate... http://www.treehugger.com/kitchen-design/1959-kitchen-debate-how-little-things-have-changed.html

DWB Originally shared by George Station Stalwart Plusser and model citizen Ron Sims is not one to make a big deal about his public life here, so we'll do it for him. This is informative for anyone who is still not quite sure that excessive traffic stops are a problem, or even excessive. #drivingwhileblack   #traffic   #police   #racism   #racialprofiling   h/t Gregory Esau via Facebook http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/driving-while-black-even-seattles-ron-sims-counts-8-cop-stops/

Gays In Spaaaaaace! Somewhere, Over The Rainbow... https://www.inverse.com/article/16263-texas-congressman-warns-against-gay-space-colonies-to-prevent-the-apocalypse SNL: https://youtu.be/_LwgpBeRQqA via Andrea Monticue  https://youtu.be/_LwgpBeRQqA

Kontrolle http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5782d1ffe4b0344d514fdddc https://feminewbie.wordpress.com/2016/07/10/i-just-saw-this-picture-and-im-so-disturbed-because-its-me/ http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5782d1ffe4b0344d514fdddc

Inauthentic Amazon is not the only perpetrator here, but it is certainly a large and unacknowledged part of their business model. http://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/08/amazons-chinese-counterfeit-problem-is-getting-worse.html http://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/08/amazons-chinese-counterfeit-problem-is-getting-worse.html

Gone And Never Was "In the end, at each address they visited, not a single home of the classmates Parks photographed was still standing, a sad testament, at least in part, to the fate of African-American neighborhoods in Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis and Columbus, Ohio, where the graduates had moved to find work and better lives." For certain values of work and better lives... Originally shared by Irina T. Gordon Parks | 1912 -2006 "BOSTON — In 1950, Gordon Parks was the only African-American photographer working for Life magazine, a rising star who was gaining the power to call his own shots, and he proposed a cover story both highly political and deeply personal: to return to Fort Scott, Kan., the prairie town where he had grown up, to find his 11 classmates in a segregated middle school. The magazine agreed, and in the spring Parks drove back into his hometown for the first time in 23 years, taking, as he wrote later, “a long hungry look” at the red brick school where h...

Privy To A Disorderly House "We admire riches and are in love with idleness," said the Cato Institute... Originally shared by Timothy Street Excavating the outhouse of a revolutionary Philadelphia bawdy house : has George Washington slept here? http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/07/america-revolution-independence-philadelphia-colony-archaeology-garbage-history/ http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/07/america-revolution-independence-philadelphia-colony-archaeology-garbage-history

The Sea Hawk Erich Wolfgang Korngold-The Sea Hawk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxbYAOoXyPE

Stay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3bUg8wsgVE

Apply Analgesics As Needed You might be a member of a drinking club with a sailing problem if...

Airish

Crepuscular

Vespers

Stick To It Set It And Forget It...

Steve McQueen Underneath the radar screen... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qlywcuw-1TU

Wheel Man https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UvAHDgCm7L8

Chase The Rabbit Originally shared by ****

Loud Hailer Beck is Back... http://www.npr.org/2016/07/07/483217219/first-listen-jeff-beck-loud-hailer

Delta Force Originally shared by james kalin

"Riiiight..." Vooba, vooba, vooba... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bputeFGXEjA Originally shared by **** Christopher Butler​ may enjoy this. http://gizmodo.com/barge-size-noah-s-ark-is-a-creationist-s-wet-dream-1783189614

Barking Mad Mechanics "We prototyped this in Meccano first, to get everything absolutely working right…" Originally shared by Wallace & Gromit We love this Sunday Morning Breakfast Making Machine, surely inspired by the inventions of Wallace and Gromit! This amazing contraption was built by Peter Browne and Mervyn Huggett, and took 1000 hours to make. Wallace would be proud! http://ow.ly/8AkK3020KQs http://ow.ly/8AkK3020KQs

If Not Now Tell Me When... https://vimeo.com/112895059

"Life Is Once, Forever" Originally shared by Irina T. Henri Cartier - Bresson | 1971 Interview| Part II "Poetry is the essence of everything, and it’s through deep contact with reality and living fully that you reach poetry. Very often I see photographers cultivating the strangeness or awkwardness of a scene, thinking it is poetry. No. Poetry is two elements which are suddenly conflict — a spark between two elements. But it’s given very seldom, and you can’t look for it. It’s like if you look for inspiration. No, it just comes by enriching yourself and living." http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/21/cartier-bresson-there-are-no-maybes/?smid=go-share

#WordlessWednesday #wordlessonwednesday

Standing Wave via Jon Pinter Originally shared by GifiVideo Entertainment GoPro : Best Wave of 2016 Featuring Anthony Walsh Watch the video here : https://goo.gl/Zkv2yL Breathtaking Waves 2016 Youtube Playlist : https://goo.gl/05McE9 Subscribe to GifiVideo Youtube here: https://goo.gl/dUUMdR #surf #surfing #waves #summer #sun #water #sea

Your Eyes Shall Behold Strange Women As if that were a Bad Thing...

Taking The Fifth Originally shared by Grand Comics Database Bill Watterson (born 5 July 1958, USA) is a cartoonist and the author of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, which was syndicated from 1985 to 1995. Watterson stopped drawing Calvin and Hobbes at the end of 1995 with a short statement to newspaper editors and his readers that he felt he had achieved all he could in the medium. Watterson is known for his views on licensing and comic syndication, as well as for his reclusive nature. Continue reading about Bill Watterson at Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Watterson Explore items in the GCD with work by Bill Watterson — http://ow.ly/xsWe301Vlgl

98 In The Shade With the comforting susurrus of surf in the background...

Lagniappe

Ocean Lady Soothing every raging wave that comes... Dressed in love, she lives for life to be... Sugarloaf-Green Eyed Lady: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_i7PKdQJU4

Aquatic Anacreontic Antics Wine was imbibed. Song was sung. A woman was involved. There were red rockets, glaring. We moored under the high rise bridge when the rain started blowing sideways under the bimini top...

Soul(less) Food Originally shared by **** “What is that?” she asked, motioning at my food. “Cornbread, pinto beans, collard greens, canned tomatoes, and chow chow,” I replied excitedly. “That looks like a struggle meal,” she said, crinkling her nose in what appeared to be judgment, disgust, or both. “‘Struggle meal?’” I asked, unfamiliar with the phrase. “Yeah,” she said. “A struggle meal is what you eat when it’s the last day before you get paid and that’s all you can scrape together. You can’t afford to go get Chipotle,” she giggled. “Or if you do,” she continued, “you can’t get the guacamole, because it’s extra.” http://www.salon.com/2016/07/02/the_struggle_is_not_real_from_tiny_houses_to_my_own_lunch_poverty_chic_commodifies_working_class_life/

Free Market Because errybody needs slaves, errr, free labor... Originally shared by Al Tlön "The 18th-century thinkers behind laissez-faire economics saw slavery as a great example of global free trade " https://aeon.co/essays/why-the-original-laissez-faire-economists-loved-slavery

Wavin' Flag K'naan-Wavin' Flag: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTJSt4wP2ME

E & E Didi mao! Joan Armatrading-The Bear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qSN74-4z6k via Arthur Hollingsworth  Originally shared by Kevin Guertin Holy fuck... That's the scariest thing I've seen in a long while! http://jakemaa.tumblr.com/post/146854792360/rosco01569-kulli2310-the-strength-dude

Going Ballistic Originally shared by Camp Lejeune Sebastion Eriksson, a driver with racing team Honda Red Bull OSME, accelerates over a dirt ramp on the Red Bull Global Rallycross race course on Marine Corps Air Station New River, N.C. July 3, 2016. The world's best rallycross drivers are competing at MCAS New River for the second season in a row for a doubleheader July 2-3, 2016, featuring an all-new course layout, bringing the track even closer to the fans. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Austin M. Livingston/Released) #RedBullGRC #MCASNewRiver #Marines #rallycross

Impulsive Originally shared by Irina T. Henri Cartier-Bresson | 1971 Interview " ... It’s as if you invite someone for dinner and serve wine in a decanter instead of the bottle with the label. People should guess if it’s a good wine. But no, they want to see the label. This is awful. That’s why there shouldn’t be any captions. People should just look. We should awaken our sensitivity. But people don’t. If it’s in a decanter, they won’t dare say it’s a good wine or it’s a bad wine because they haven’t seen the year. They don’t know which chateau. That’s what I resent. I think photographs should have no caption, just location and date. Date is important because things change." Part 1  http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/henri-cartier-bresson-living-and-looking/?smid=go-share

Unreal Life Rich People Yelling At Nothing... http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20066574,00.html Steely Dan-Gaslighting Abbie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7VielKqmco Originally shared by Al Tlön An interesting article from Jon Ronson : "The journalist grew up on New York’s Upper East Side with her mother, a celebrated poet who partied with Andy Warhol and Saul Bellow. Now she’s lifting the lid on a deeply unhappy childhood" https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jul/02/ariel-leve-i-had-to-write-this-book-in-order-to-be-free

Poor, Nasty, Brutish, and Short Well, not short, anyway... This article went a long way to explain my ambivalent reaction to this movie, when I saw it in theatres, eons ago, without the benefit of all this insider information... I also remembered finding out later that Christopher Lambert is extremely myopic and can't wear contacts, which results in a lot of unfocused staring in almost all his roles... http://www.hitfix.com/motion-captured/take-two-tarzan-epic-greystoke-doesnt-hold-up-as-a-legend http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/greystoke-inside-story-1984-tarzan-908081

Vegan Leather Totes Are apparently a thing... A chicer thing than the real thing... Will no one speak for the Baby Phthalate Naugas, sacrificed for fashion? http://www.vogue.com/13387466/best-vegan-leather-bags-shopping/

The Next Best Thing To E.B. White On the radio, thanks to Tina Brown... Originally shared by Randy Culler The Garrison Keillor You Never Knew Everything about “Prairie Home” — the Guy Noir and Lives of the Cowboys sketches, the spots for Powdermilk Biscuits and the Ketchup Advisory Board, the monologues about the fictional Lake Wobegon — sprang from Mr. Keillor’s imagination. But the man spinning the plates at the center of it all managed to stay a mystery, even to people who know him well. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/19/arts/the-garrison-keillor-you-never-knew.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share&_r=0