Life Magazine Cover

Yikes, 1965, how time flies.

"Drama of Life Before Birth" if Life were to do that cover today they'd get a visit from the thought police.

World To End Tomorrow: Women and Minorities Hardest Hit

Casualty of the Climate Wars

It hurts to think we live in a world where these kind of people can cash their paychecks in the daylight. They should hide in shame:

A House resolution sponsored by representative Barbara Lee (D, Calif.) and cosponsored by House members including Keith Ellison (D, Minn.) and Carolyn Maloney (D, N.Y.) is pushing Congress to acknowledge the “disparate impact of climate change on women” and adopt “gender-sensitive frameworks” to address environmental change.

The resolution argues that climate change may have a particularly dire impact on women. Climate change, it says, exacerbates food scarcity, and “Food insecure women with limited socioeconomic resources may be vulnerable to situations such as sex work, transactional sex, and early marriage that put them at risk for HIV, STIs, unplanned pregnancy, and poor reproductive health.”

How about we wait until we have the first climate-change induced prostitute and then we'll address the problem.

Two women, in a bar somewhere, "I don't know, what do you want to do?" "I dunno, it sure is hot. Wanna become prostitutes?"

Speed of Light May be Variable

Cancel that subscription to Scientific American, I'll alert you when Science happens:

The speed of light is constant, or so textbooks say. But some scientists are exploring the possibility that this cosmic speed limit changes, a consequence of the nature of the vacuum of space.

The definition of the speed of light has some broader implications for fields such as cosmology and astronomy, which assume a stable velocity for light over time. For instance, the speed of light comes up when measuring the fine structure constant (alpha), which defines the strength of the electromagnetic force. And a varying light speed would change the strengths of molecular bonds and the density of nuclear matter itself.

A non-constant speed of light could mean that estimates of the size of the universe might be off...

OK so it looks like sometimes our understanding of the physical world can change. So far the only thing we know for sure, the only scientific fact that is set in stone and can not be negated or modified, the only one eternal truth is this: one hundred years ago the climate was at the one perfect spot that would ensure our survival. Any change from that 'sweet spot' spells our doom.

Swiss Army Knife of Faces

This one will be labeled 'sassy face' and as you can see, it fits a wide range of Obama photoshops, from 'hipster' all the way to 'urban hipster'.

I Blame Obama

Obamacare Waiver

I'm not surprised that Congressmen want Obamacare waivers for themselves. They know better than most what's in the bill, and they know a bad deal when they see one. Many conservatives oppose it, but I'm thinking it might not be so bad to let them opt out.

See, their exemption would cover their staffs as well. Then, all we have to do is get John Boehner to hire the entire population as unpaid interns. I know I'd accept a position, so long as it came with a workload comparable to Michelle Obama's at the University of Chicago Medical Center.

Syria Crosses the Line

You can't say they weren't warned. President Obama made it crystal clear that using chemical weapons against civilians would be crossing 'the red line'. But apparently Assad used sarin gas anyway, and now must face the president's wrath.

I suspect a strongly worded letter is in the works.

And darn it all, it's another distraction just as the President was preparing our next recovery-summer. If it's not one thing, it's another. Remember recovery-summer last year? (or was it the one before that?) It was going along fine until it got derailed by speculation in the chopsticks market. (or was it a potato famine?) Anyway, not the President's fault.

Mind: Blown

This exact same thing happened to me. Except that it wasn't in a park, it was on a card table in San Antonio Texas. And it wasn't my face in the puzzle, it was prairie dogs on a small hill, looking into the camera. Those are the facts as they were related to me, I wasn't actually there myself.

Planned Parenthood Cancellation Planned

Or maybe that title should be: Planned Parenthood Appearance Planned, because "planned" when used in the Planned Parenthood sense means: "terminated." Has anyone ever gone to Planned Parenthood for fertility treatments? I don think so. They should change their name to Planned Non-parenthood.

anyway...

via K-Lo:

Jay Carney today announced a schedule change: In order to spend more time in Texas, the president will speak to Planned Parenthood on Friday morning, not at the gala the night before as planned. I don’t suppose it’s because the first black president just got a primer on who the founder of the United States’ largest abortion provider, Margaret Sanger, was (the Margaret Sanger Award Thursday night is going to Ruth Westheimer).

It Can Always Get Worse

You've maybe heard that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was "angry that the world pictures Islam as a violent religion."  Not good, that we've got college students stupid enough to think that the solution to an image problem is a bomb.

But did you know also that the brothers were on welfare?  Yeah, our money funded their adventure.

And remember: About half of every dollar the government spends is borrowed. So yeah, we're going into debt to finance terrorists.

And we've got a president who proposed the sequester but who is now doing everything he can to maximize the impact of any slow down in the growth of government spending.

Makes you want to chant yes we can!