Brain cramps

 This week in science news:

Men of Scandinavia, please mind your balls in the water. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/sweden/10234986/Swedish-men-told-to-beware-testicle-munching-fish.html

Behold! The newest classified mammal, the olinguito. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/For-the-First-Time-in-35-Years-A-New-Carnivorous-Mammal-Species-is-Discovered-in-the-Western-Hemisphere--219762981.html

Hey hipsters, hippies, and rich people, you are not smarter than 100+ years of accumulated public health knowledge. Now go vaccinate your fucking children. http://www.salon.com/2013/08/14/whats_with_rich_people_hating_vaccines/

...and I come back from a long vacation to this?

Fuck yeah! Modern day Pinkertons! Let's hire thugs again to do the dirty work of tbuisness and state governments. I feel we are going backwards again... http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2013/07/rent_an_army.php?ref=fpblg

Jenny McCarthy is a danger to public health and safety. Seriously. Please remind ABC of this. http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/07/09/jenny_mccarthy_antivax_advocate_considered_for_co_host_on_abc_s_the_view.html?wpisrc=obnetwork

And finally,
If this is what a Republican paradise looks like at a state level then I for damn sure will never move there. Can Republicans please fight their strange inner urges and govern responsibily rather than look like children set free in a candy factory with no adult supervision or self-restraint?
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/10/opinion/the-decline-of-north-carolina.html?src=me&ref=general

And just a friendly reminder to the rest of America: It's a fucking hoagie! http://i.imgur.com/4z7UsRr.png

Post time

Dr. Speaker Boehner, please learn some fucking history: http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/03/28/17505004-boehner-has-no-use-for-lincoln-in-context?lite

Super Metro map! http://i.imgur.com/EWEkt7o.jpg

I love laughing at Guy Fieri and his fucking donkey sauce: http://shine.yahoo.com/shine-food/guy-fieri-parody-menu-prompts-big-online-laughs--with-a-side-of-accusations-173542460.html

More ramblings of a crazed historian

History lesson! The topic today is soda and racism. Go:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/29/opinion/when-jim-crow-drank-coke.html?src=me&ref=general

(Sorry for the colorful language, but I needed to get out some frustration)
Why the fuck does MS need to make everything so fucking confusing? If you make it more confusing, you aren't "revolutionizing" anything.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/Press/2013/Jan13/01-29O365PR.aspx

Quentin Tarantino is still a douchey asshole, part (oh, I've lost count)
http://youtu.be/-jRiwQRVIlI

Is there something in the water in VA that is making republican politicians less interested in logical policies?
http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2013/01/09/bob_mcdonnell_s_horrible_plan_to_eliminate_the_gas_tax.html

The weeks that were

Slow with the updates as work as been ridiculously busy the past two months. Here is what I have bumped into recently that struck a chord for one reason or another.

51 states? Maybe, but the new one ain't DC. (More taxation without representation for me!) http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/puerto-rico-votes-to-become-state

The United States of Campaign Money. http://vimeo.com/52258074

End of week news

The round up.

How the newspapers constantly fuck up scientific breakthroughs: http://blogs.plos.org/thepanicvirus/2012/09/14/the-state-of-science-writing-circa-2012/

History can be funny: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/shouts/2012/09/a-conservative-history-of-the-united-states.html

Does BPA make you fat? Maybe. http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2012/09/is-the-can-worse-than-the-soda/

September 17 was Constitution Day, let's hope this wasn't Ben's syphilis talking: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/142127

And finally, Mittens is so powerful that he was in two place at the same time on 9/11/01. Imagine that. http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/romneys-has-given-two-version-of-his-911-experie

End of weeks news

And today, once again I am reminded that bigotry and prejudice really knows no party.
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nfl--maryland-politician-out-of-line-for-attacking-brendon-ayanbadejo-s-support-of-gay-marriage.html

Beefspace! http://www.datapointed.net/2012/08/beefspace-maps-of-burger-territory/

David Simon's righteous indignation at Romney paying only 13% taxes and providing zero proof is worth a read: http://davidsimon.com/mitt-romney-paid-taxes-at-a-rate-of-at-least-13-percent-and-hes-proud-to-say-so/

More righteous indignation for your Friday. Tom Morello lights into Paul Ryan's love for RATM music, but not their lyrics. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/tom-morello-paul-ryan-is-the-embodiment-of-the-machine-our-music-rages-against-20120816#ixzz23o6DJswL