And the Hooooooommmmmmmmmeeee of the Braaaavvee!

Just imagine me singing the National Anthem and waving sparklers behind Vibinc as he reads this aloud.
Edited to add: Oh, shit.  I forgot that we’re supposed to be doing East Tennessee outreach!  Okay, two thirds of the state, picture me singing the National Anthem and waving sparklers.  You guys to my right?  Imagine me standing [...]

Guess What? The Crows in Dumbo were Racist Caricatures, Too!

I am obviously not a black person and I am not going to sit here and speak for black people.  I am, however, going to tell you that it doesn’t matter how much Bill Hobbs protests, sending out a flyer with Nathan Vaughn’s head on a crow, is fucking racist.
It just is and I can’t [...]

You Say “Grief Hallucination,” I Say “Ghost”

Via Sullivan, we learn that almost everyone sees dead people.  Oh, Science, I love you, I do, but the term “grief hallucination” has to be the most inadequate thing you’ve ever foisted on us.
I don’t know.  I get annoyed when religion wants to sit next to science, like they’re almost the same thing, and it [...]

The Cervix

World, I have to show you something so amazing I about don’t know what to tell you about it.  A month in the life of a cervix.
I had no idea your cervix did that much.  I guess I just imagined it sitting up there capping off the end of your vagina, but it turns out [...]

Well, Watch Me Blush and Call Me ‘School Girl’

I’m reading over at The9513 the review of the new Johnny Cash album and I’m reading along–doo doo doo–and I hit
Cash later engages in the innuendo-heavy “The Legend of John Henry’s Hammer,” audibly smirking his way through lyrics rife with double entendres, much to the delight of inmates at both sets.
And I’m all like “What?  [...]

Academia.edu

Have y’all seen this?  It’s like a giant family tree for universities and it is so brilliantly simple that I can’t believe it hasn’t been thought up before now.  Sometimes the amount of information just so easily available to folks who have a computer stuns me.

Wednesday Randomness

1.  Forget space shuttle launches, what about December 31?
2.  And I believe it shows what we already knew–that the GOP is now firmly the Southern party.
3.  My question is this: what are the Tennessee Republicans going to do to get us out of this financial mess?  Can you really keep taxes where they are and [...]