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Last weekend a friend came across this poem, translated from Malagasy, in a travel book about Madagascar. There wasn't a name to which it can be attributed.



Do not love me, Andriamotoa, as one loves
the banana tree exposed to the wind,
overcome and in danger from cold.
Do not love me as one loves a door:
It is loved, but constantly pushed.
Love me as one loves a little crab:
even its claws are eaten.

I finally figured all this nonsense out.

Of course the profoundly direct ruling regarding Prop 8 being unconstitutional is a slippery slope to polygamous marriage.

THAT'S WHY THE MORMONS FOUGHT IT SO HARD. This whole time they've been pouring millions and millions of dollars into it KNOWING FULL WELL that it would get overturned, opening the door to polygamy. That way they could get their bonus wives without looking skeazy and asking for them.

It was all a conspiracy about plausible deniability.

The Mormons are much smarter than we gave them credit for.

Say I drive 15,000 miles per year.

- If I live an average life I'll drive for 60 years.. 900,000 miles total.

- Say I drive cars that average 20mpg over my lifetime. 45,000 gallons of gas. Total.

- In the U.S., we burn about 375,000,000 million gallons of gasoline per day.

My lifetime gasoline consumption will be .012% of what the U.S. burns in a single day.

What I'm saying is that we should fucking party. We should fucking PARTY.

Let's have some goddamn adventures, because we're dying, and we don't know how fast, and it doesn't matter.

It's finally announced. Collings Mandola. Soon, hopefully, to be Collings' Mandola. It's amazing that pegheads on some the very finest musical insturments currently made ALREADY HAVE MY NAME ON THEM.

Dogs dancing the mambo? Check: http://cuteanimals.todaysbigthing.com/2009/11/04

Big cats in cars? Check: http://cuteanimals.todaysbigthing.com/2009/11/04

Yep. It's another great day on the internet.

Saw this on Cute Overload:

Nabbed from Cute Overload this morning:



Man, that's good television.

Someone left a "Bowhunter" magazine on the table in our kitchen at work. I flipped it open randomly to an add featuring a man in camouflage holding the antlers of a lifeless buck in one hand, and holding a small bottle towards the camera in the other.. His face is cut out, and it it's place are the words "insert YOU here".

There is some other copy in the ad. Featured prominently:

"She stands.
He attempts to breed.
We bottle it. (tm)"

The product is Standing Estrous "PEAK" Estrous. Sprinkle it around your deer stand and watch the bucks come to you.

What is wrong with these people?

There's some video interviews at CNN.com, but I couldn't figure out how to link it.

From Central Ohio:

Columbus-Bound Flight Delayed by Otters

"A Continental Airlines flight from Houston to Columbus was delayed for more than an hour Tuesday night after otters making the trip in the plane's cargo hold escaped their cages and made a break for freedom.
The otters were apparently being unloaded from the plane in Houston when they managed to get loose.

"People thought it was a joke at first, I think," a passenger said.

Another passenger said an otter made its way out of the cargo hold and onto the Houston airport's tarmac.

"We watched them take them off the plane in a box and the next thing we know one of the otters got loose and took off across the tarmac," the passenger said.

Airport personnel managed to catch each of the otters and return them to their cages. Flight 1492 departed Houston a little more than an hour later and arrived safely at Port Columbus.

Some of the passengers picking up bags in Columbus discovered that the animals had gotten into their luggage.

A man who had coffee in his suitcase found his bag open and covered in what appeared to be hay.

"Some otters got into them," he said. "They must have smelled the coffee."

Most of the flight's passengers were in good spirits and took the situation in stride.

"Other than sitting on the tarmac for an hour being 'otterly' ridiculous, the flight was uneventful," a passenger said.