How freaking cute is this??? I love how the baby on the right keeps almost perfect time throughout the song. While the one on the left does almost as well while covering a lot more territory. Added bonus-their parents are obviously passing their great taste in music down to their kids. Also, the squealing/giggling/cooing is almost enough to make me want another one. Almost

This a picture of a bunch of world-class assholes. As I am sure everyone is aware by now, the miserable- sack-of-skin-masquerading-as-a-human Darryl Issa held a “hearing” today regarding the birth control provisions in the ACA. As you can see there is one rather glaring omission here. Not one single woman testified!! Evidently they couldn’t even find a female to bolster their stupid argument that providing basic health care for women is somehow infringing on the religious rights of idiots. The one tiny sliver of silver lining here is that a group of Democratic women walked out of the hearing in protest. Henceforth I would like every woman Democrat in the House to attach a provision to every single bill that states that it would be a felony to allow even a single sperm to be wasted. After all, those eggs don’t fertilize themselves!

They’re probably scrambling right now, re-working the show to accomodate the sudden passing of Whitney Houston last night. I’m curious to see how they will handle it. Has anyone got a particular favorite that is in the running tonight?

Today is the Big Day! The Big Game!! The last game of the season, and a re-match of what they’ve been saying on sporting-type shows was one of the best Super Bowls ever. The G-Men won that one, who knows if they can do it again. The Patriots are going for ring #4, which is pretty impressive. If the Giants win, it will mean baby brother Eli will have twice as many Super Bowl rings as his more hyped brother. Bets will be placed, massive amounts of food and drink will be consumed, and of course the commercials will be watched with great interest. Hopefully there will be a good football game in there somewhere!

Oh, and my son has a wicked sense of humor. I swear, I didn’t even know Tengrain 18 yrs ago!

I am of two minds about this. On the one hand, it’s Ferris Bueller!!! On the other hand, Ferris is supposed to always be a senior in high school, playing hooky and having a blast in Chicago. But it does make my favorite part of Super Bowl Sunday better-watching the ads!

Then there’s this one, which is just a teaser for the new Volkswagen ad. I really like it, but I have to watch it with headphones on. The first time I started it was one night after everyone had gone to bed. When the dogs heard it they flipped out! They will have to go pretty far to top the awesomeness that was the Darth Vader ad from last year, though!

Open topic.  Time to do the hokey pokey.  Or talk politics.  Or something.

Comments are back on.

Yeah, that is my President. The coolest guy in the room, in a geeky sort of way. Can anyone seriously imagine any of the GOP clown-car-of-crazy pulling this off? Anyone?? Yeah…didn’t think so

You missed purity bears!

The Purity Bear Will Cockblock You Until You’re Married

Jezebel

Hey guys, have you met The Purity Bear? He’s a plush toy who appears to tempted teens and warns them without moving his mouth that going inside a girl’s house will inevitably lead to sex having, and sex having before marriage is literally the worst decision you could possibly make.

In spite of the fact that this could easily be parody, this video is a very real effort to promote the very real Day of Purity. On that Pure of Days, everyone focuses on their genitals for awhile, and somehow that makes them better people. Pure people.

This Purity Bear video also teaches us an important lesson about women, namely that they’re usually the ones responsible for tricking men into getting turned on, and they’re always demanding sex from poor, defenseless, virtuous, chaste dudes. It happened in Twilight when Bella spent like 3 books humping Edward’s leg before he agreed to put out, it happened to Sir Galahad, the Chaste in that castle full of horny virgins, and it’s happening here, right on this now besotted doorstep. For shame, woman. For shame, women.

Visibly absent from this scenario was the Artie The Angry Trouser Python, who appears to men and tells them to never turn down a handjob.

Right Wing Watch even has video!

But, if you feel the need, you can talk about politics or news if you need to. But I will be sitting here wondering if and how junior there is cuddling with the bear with deep voice….

I am going to confess something that may come as a surprise to some of y’all. I am a great big mushball when it comes to certain things. I got this CD in the mail Friday and decided to listen to it while driving to work on Saturday. Thankfully, this song came on during my ride home because it made me cry. Ugly cry. A big blubbering mess while driving down the road. It was pitiful. Because when the madkiddies were just little sprouts we would read at bedtime. Their favorite book was “Goodnight Moon”, so I read that book to them. A lot! And when I finished I would tell the boys that I loved them. One night the big kid asked me how much I loved him, and I told him I loved him to the moon and back. He was just a toddler then, but he was still pretty impressed because he knew the moon was very far away. Anyway, that became a thing with us. I still tell them that, though now I am more likely to get an eyeroll than anything else. I don’t care. So when this song came up and I started listening to it…well, you know. I did not think it was possible to love Miss Dolly any more than I already did, but she proved me wrong.

Look at her. She’s wearing a tiny top hat stuck to the side of her head, and it appears she might just tip over at any moment from the weight of her chest. Who else could pull off a look like that?

image via kcur.org

Have you ever noticed that the conventional wisdom in a particular area is neither conventional nor wisdom?  Mark Twain once said that “You may have noticed that the less I know about a subject the more confidence I have, and the more new light I throw on it..”

Twain also said, ”For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness.” When it comes to presidential elections, the United States seems to go with instinct rather than fact.

Mitt Romney won the NH primary today, which he was supposed to do. Conventional Wisdom and the TV Pundits all told us so.  But why? Why would a Massachusetts politician be expected to win next door?  Indeed, why would he be expected to even win his own state?  Wouldn’t we expect the people of his own area (state plus TV market perhaps) to know both his positive and negative attributes even better than the rest of the voters?

Maybe I am missing something, but what has Barack Obama done for Illinois that he hasn’t done for the rest of the U.S.?  Or, a better analogy if New Hampshire couldn’t fit in the back pocket of Texas shorts shorts, what has he done for Iowa, Indiana and Missouri that he hasn’t done for the rest of the country?

Was George W. Bush any less of a failure for Texans during his presidency than he was for the rest of the country?  New Orleans didn’t benefit from being in a neighboring state for eight years.

Sports teams have fans outside their city and state, especially if they play in cities where the neighboring state doesn’t have a sports franchise for that sport.  But politics shouldn’t be sports. Do voters simply choose the name they’ve heard the longest? Do they want their state to “win”?  Do they assume that a politician from their state or region of the country shares their values?  Or are they just more familiar with the accent?

I don’t care one way or the other about the results of any state’s Republican primary, but I do care about my vote.  I would rather vote for a liberal than Barack Obama, but I’d never choose a “home state” candidate over a candidate whose ideas I support.  Why do other Americans?