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The funniest panelist on "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me" is Adam Felber. I have his blog bookmarked; lately it's been kinda slow, with some pictures and stories about his new baby (typical blog fodder, no?) and tantalizing (but frankly worrying) news about a "Wait wait" tv show. But he just posted a video about loving America, done by some other guy. No specific candidate endorsement or anything, just funny.
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It's possible that he's a little too awesome.
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I've got a new favorite version of "Sexyback."



Thanks to [livejournal.com profile] klingonlandlady a new lj friend who is somehow associated with these lunatics. I need to get out more--I didn't know this sort of thing was happening in the streets of Somerville.
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Too bad John McCain hasn't agreed with John McCain since he won the nomination. Thanks to [livejournal.com profile] roaming and [livejournal.com profile] barackobama2008 for the link. (EDIT--It's only fair to point out that this clip is from 2000, and he's referring to GW Bush's negative ads.)

(Only four more weeks folks, then it's back to complaining about the weather. ;) )
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And I won't talk about politics now, either! Fortunately, my old friend David Rees (who I've known for years by the false name he gave himself on the spot over the phone) talks about politics better than I do so I'll let him do the talking; He has helpfully provided a script for you to follow as you call congress to talk about this whole "bailing out the economy by making us all poorer" thing that the Bush lackeys have dreamed up:




Please call your Senators and Representative and tell them to limit the bailout to ONE MILLION DOLLARS.

Congress main line
(202) 224-3121

Nancy Pelosi
(202) 225-4965

Steny Hoyer
(202) 225-4131

CALL SCRIPT:

Hello, is this Nancy Pelosi (”Puh-LOW-see”)? My name is [SAY YOUR NAME REALLY LOUD], and I am a concerned citizen of the great state of [YOUR STATE], home of the [WHATEVER THE BEST SPORTS TEAM IN YOUR STATE IS] and the birthplace of [SAY SOME STUPID THING YOUR STATE IS FAMOUS FOR].

I am calling today to demand that Congress limit the proposed bank bailout to ONE MILLION DOLLARS. I did some research on my computer and I think the figure of one trillion dollars is just too goddamn big. Why would I entrust this group of idiot jackasses with a cool trill? You must be “outta ya mind” if you think I’m gonna go for that. Let’s start with ONE MILLION DOLLARS and see how they do. If they do good, then we’ll give them another million. The more better they do, the more money we give them.

Oh, and it better not be my money you’re giving them, either, or I will go buck wild. BELIEVE THAT.

Thanks for your time, and I can’t wait until we all rise up and kill the bankers and the deregulators and bring this country to its knees.

Thanks and have a wonderful day.

END OF CALL SCRIPT.


Also there's this great cartoon of his comic strip, this time talking about the whole "rape kit" thing in regards to Sarah Palin's executive experience as a small town mayor who made tons of bad decisions.
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I post videos a lot lately, but I haven't yet posted a link to a video of my brother buying two girly fruit drinks from a girl in a bra at a drive-through espresso shack. Now I have:

http://www.reviewjournal.com/media/video/sexpresso.html


Only in Vegas!

(and Seattle-Tacoma)
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I think one of the things that characterizes liberals is that they question their own assumptions and beliefs. This is a very positive thing, but it leads to uncertainty and insecurity, especially since the other side can sit there so smugly eating shit out of a can of lies. (How can they stand the smell of their own bullshit?) I know I've been really anxious about the election since the conventions and judging from the chatter on my friends list a lot of you are anxious too.

The Obama campaign sends me daily emails, and a couple of days ago they sent this one, this video really made me feel better about the election. The video is in the lower left hand corner of a page asking for donations.

Then I just saw this on my friends list (thanks [livejournal.com profile] feathered_frog)
After the first 30 seconds or so, I was sure this was going to be a plea to NOT vote for the Republicans. It might as well be.



This doesn't have anything to do with politics (not directly) but the video reminded me of it, and I think it's hilarious and you might too:
Evolutionists Flock To Darwin-Shaped Wall Stain


And if you can't get enough of how ludicrous Sarah Palin is, and didn't watch the video in my last post (for example because it was friends protected) watch it now. I was laughing so hard at the joke about the copy machine, I had to pause the video to catch my breath. There's some swearing in this, just so you know:



So what else are you guys finding inspiring? How do you fight the sinking feeling that the scumbags are going to lie and cheat their way to the White House?
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A little taste of Boston. Not my video: I wish.

According to someone on the Boston Critical Mass group:

*Name: Louie
*Birthday: 11/27
*Age: 54 years old
*Likes: The Red Sox, Mozzarella sticks, The Rattlesnake bar and grill,
Dick's last resort, Miller High Life (that's how you know hes a good man).

*Bike information: The sticker on the back says "kryptonite", frequents
Back Bay Bikes for repairs..

*Siren: apparently he's saying "move, move" which would make sense to
those who have been hit

*VIDEOS of Louie in Action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqcYdS0x_2w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-Ke-miqHs8&NR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhEb73t-Stk


If I remember correctly, he has cerebral palsy so he needs leg braces,
which would probably prevent him from riding a two-wheeler.


http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2007/01/07/keeping_the_wheels_turning/
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Pygmy Hippopotamus Hexaprotodon liberiensis

The pygmy hippopotamus is about a fifth of the mass of its huge cousin, the Nile hippo. A pygmy hippo is about the size of a small pig, on the average about 500 pounds. Pygmy hippos spend far less time in the water compared to Nile hippos, instead deftly and quietly moving through dense rainforests, feeding on fallen fruit and other vegetation. Also unlike Niles, pygmy hippos are solitary, coming together only to mate. They leave messages for one another by defecating and rapidly wagging their tails to disperse the fecal matter. Pygmy hippos are found in a relatively small range of jungle habitat in western Africa, the largest amount concentrated in Liberia. They are preyed upon by leopards and humans.

This is Cleopatra, a fifteen year old pygmy hippo who comes from the Toronto zoo. She is on loan to Zoo New England, and is on exhibit in the Tropical Forest building.

pics from Toronto )

On this day in 365 Urban Species: Greenhouse slug.
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On this day in 365 Urban Species: Tree of Heaven. Another top ten species! My favorite urban tree, and one of the reasons I started writing about urban nature.
urbpan: (morel)

Dead man's fingers (Urban species #181), Drumlin Farm, Lincoln.


180 Stair Gap, Landmark Center, Boston.

On this day in 365 Urban Species: Agelenopsis spider.
urbpan: (facing the wave)
By our last day on Kauai, we had driven as far up the east coast road as you can, all the way to the end of the road that goes into the canyon, and almost all the way up the west coast road. The west coast road peters out in a scrubland near a military base. The last stores and stuff are miles behind, and the road just continues up into this weird dense vegetation, former sugar cane fields that have turned into unlovely tangles. It felt very much like the set-up for a horror movie. All we would need is for the car to break down, then we would have to survive in the thickets (we would have needed about 4 other people with us, so that we could get picked off one by one).

We knew that there was a beach up there somewhere, the last accessible place on the road before the Na Pali coast. We found the turn-off for it and went away. The road gave way to a packed sand trail, wide enough for cars, but so rutted and textured that an atv would have been a better choice than our rented Corolla. I wouldn't have thought it was a place we were supposed to be at all, except that there was a fair amount of traffic on it. I tried to steer around the biggest potholes, accelerating to 10 or 15 mph when we found smooth patches, but most of it was very rough going.

We kept seeing clearings in the vegetation, thinking, "Okay, there's the beach, right around the next bend," but the road kept on. Several times I thought we should probably turn around, before we got stuck out there. After about a half hour of slow driving on five miles of bad road, we got to the destination. A little park bathroom building and a handful of cars marked the parking area. I got out and immediately noticed that the car had lost a hubcap on the bumpy road. Dad and I discussed how much the rental car company would charge us for it, and we agreed that after we went over to the beach, we should probably make an effort to find it. A quick trip to the bathroom to relieve a bumped up bladder, and then we headed over a sandy ridge to the sound of the ocean.

The conditions weren't right to make the sands bark, but that's okay. I'd seen a lot of sandy beaches that week, but nothing quite like this. a )
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Maggie thinks there's something to bark about.more dog and some urban nature )

On this day in 365 Urban Species: Dodder, as seen here earlier today! (I totally didn't plan that, and I probably should have.) Alexis has made it her pet project to tear out hunks of dodder and relocate them to patches of Japanese knotweed. So far it's been successful: the transplanted dodder wraps itself around the knotweed in every place she's moved it.
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I heard this peeping from the bushes in front of my house. I investigated, and it kept going, and didn't even move away from me. It's a baby catbird. It's at the stage where it can't quite fly, but it can get around pretty well, and it's parents will still feed it. It may have left the nest too early. This is the age of the birds that people usually find near their homes and want to take care of. DON'T. After I shot this video my dog tried to eat the bird so we left.
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They're much bigger and ganglier than this now.

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