Bringing this shit back.  LET'S GET WEIRD.

ROBIN TROWER IS A SMOOTH PENTATONIC GOD.  RESPECT. 

Robots Still Coming

From the Awl: First the Robots Will Carve Chickens.

Friday Thrashday!

Dave Mustaine may be a weird christian asshole now, but god damn did Megadeth rock back in the day. 

Shep Smith Increasingly Less Crazy

 
From C&L: 


Fox News Anchor Shep Smith utters these words: "The president of the United States: now in the 21st century."

Fuck me in the goat ass. 

Rad Waste of Time

Flash Element Tower Defense 2 is excellent.

Mutant Bears!

Yes. Those are half grizzly, half polar bears. The Bears are coming!

Shep Tells It Like It Is

Shep Smith, while not great, is by far the sanest being on Fox News.

Been Awhile

Been slow on posting.  I'm fucking busy.

Tasers Kill

From the NY Times:

The electrical shock delivered to the chest by a Taser can lead to cardiac arrest and sudden death, according to a new study, although it is unknown how frequently such deaths occur.

The study, which analyzed detailed records from the cases of eight people who went into cardiac arrest after receiving shocks from a Taser X26 fired at a distance, is likely to add to the debate about the safety of the weapons. Seven of the people in the study died; one survived.

Advocacy groups like Amnesty International have argued that Tasers, the most widely used of a class of weapons known as electrical control devices, are potentially lethal and that stricter rules should govern their use.

But proponents maintain that the devices — which are used by more than 16,700 law enforcement agencies in 107 countries, said Steve Tuttle, a spokesman for Taser — pose less risk to civilians than firearms and are safer for police officers than physically tackling a suspect. The results of studies of the devices’ safety in humans have been mixed.

Medical experts said on Monday that the new report, published online on Monday in the journal Circulation, makes clear that electrical shocks from Tasers, which shoot barbs into the clothes and skin, can in some cases set off irregular heart rhythms, leading to cardiac arrest.

“This is no longer arguable,” said Dr. Byron Lee, a cardiologist and director of the electrophysiology laboratory at the University of California, San Francisco. “This is a scientific fact. The national debate should now center on whether the risk of sudden death with Tasers is low enough to warrant widespread use by law enforcement.”

And they use them like fucking squirt guns.

h/t to digby

Wonderbar!

One of the few Democrats FOX allows on air tells fellow panelist she doesn't know what the fuck she's talking about. On Air!

Video Here

Machines Still Coming

And now they can get you upstairs.

Cigarettes Good!

I knew it: health care for the obese costs more than that for smokers.

Seems like a win, win. The smokes keep you skinny too. And they're delicious.

McCarthyism! Get Some!

Rep. Allen West of Florida knows that there are between 78 and 81 communists... in Congress!

Sound familiar?

Angry Black Lady Destroys Racist Shithead John Derbyshire

From RawStory: NRO’s John Derbyshire Warns His Kids to Stay Away From ‘Blacks’.

(10h) Do not act the Good Samaritan to blacks in apparent distress, e.g., on the highway. [If you see a Negro with a flat tire, keep it movin'. We're probably going to carjack you. -ed.]

(10i) If accosted by a strange black in the street, smile and say something polite but keep moving. [ You're just asking for trouble. Do not stop for strange Negroes. They're usually up to no good. What the fuck are you doing in a black neighborhood anyway? We talked about this already. (See 10(b).) -ed.]

(11) The mean intelligence of blacks is much lower than for whites. The least intelligent ten percent of whites have IQs below 81; forty percent of blacks have IQs that low. Only one black in six is more intelligent than the average white; five whites out of six are more intelligent than the average black. These differences show in every test of general cognitive ability that anyone, of any race or nationality, has yet been able to devise. They are reflected in countless everyday situations. “Life is an IQ test.” [Ni-CLANG!s are stupid. It says so in The Bell Curve. -ed.]

Damn. Check the whole thing. Her rebuttal is hilarious.

PPP Polls

Just took a phone-based PPP poll.

All in all, reasonably balanced.

1 Gripe:

Question: Do you believe the appropriate punishment for murder is

1. Life without parole
2. Death
3. Not sure

Seriously? What the Fuck? What about "Not life in prison and not death"?

2nd Gripe:

The recording of the dude at the end who tells you it was a PPP poll sounds like some guy from the lower east side trying to do a happy cowboy impression. Pretty funny really.