HULK SMASHED
The title of this award-winning 1963 film refers to the number of films its director felt he had made to that point
Eight and a half?
Yes!
Nice pics.
You are the new Jeapordy champion!
al sharpton threatens to shut down new york city because 3 police officers were found not guilty in a court of law. let him just try. send this bum to guantanamo in chains, he is a punk who doesn't deserve to live in the usa. who in the hell does he think he is
GALACTUS IS COMING!
http://www.yourmomsbasement.com/
...tus_is_com.html
Well, it wasn't likely to be 200 Motels....
Well, it wasn't likely to be 200 Motels....
Believe it or not, one of our regulars failed to answer the question in a rather spectacular fashion.
Andromeda-Milky Way collision
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
And...y_Way_collision
The Andromeda-Milky Way collision is a predicted galaxy collision, due to take place in approximately three billion years time, between the two largest galaxies in the Local Group, the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy[1]. It is often used as an example of the kind of phenomena associated with such collisions in simulations.[2] As with all such collisions, it is unlikely that objects such as stars contained within each galaxy will actually collide, as galaxies are in fact very diffuse—the nearest star to the Sun is in fact almost thirty million solar diameters away from the Earth. (If the sun were scaled to the size of an American quarter, the next closest quarter/star would be 475 miles away). If the theory is correct, the stars and gas contained in Andromeda will be visible to a naked-eye viewer (if one exists on Earth at the time, see Evolution of the Sun and planetary environments) in approximately three billion years.[3] If the collision occurs, the galaxies will likely merge into one larger galaxy.
It is worth noting that there is, as yet, no way to know whether the possible collision is definitely going to happen or not. The radial velocity of the Andromeda galaxy with respect to the Milky Way can be measured by examining the Doppler shift of spectral lines from stars in the galaxy, but the transverse velocity (or "proper motion") cannot be directly measured. Thus, while it is known that the Andromeda galaxy is getting closer to the Milky Way by about 120 km/sec, there is no way to tell whether it is going to collide, or miss. The best indirect estimates of the transverse velocity indicate that it is less than 100 km/sec[4]. This suggests that the dark matter halos, although possibly not the actual disks, of the galaxies will collide. A future European Space Agency spacecraft, the Gaia mission, expected to launch around 2011, is intended to measure the positions of stars in the Andromeda galaxy with sufficient precision to pin down the transverse velocity[1]
Oh, Richard, that is priceless!
Thanks, Avedon!
You anticipated my last post on the thread before.
And TKK, that was COLD.
You mean... 2001?
You know WE have the right of way.
We might as well pack it all in, then.
jk
Four hundred seventy five miles between quarters.
Long, long way.
We're coming for your lily-white ass, you punk.
And TKK, that was COLD.
I'm just funnin. And he's probably out on a date with some hot divorcee right now.
I don't believe in anything more than 6,000 years old.
And he's probably out on a date with some hot divorcee right now.
The Kenosha Kid
You mean... 2001?
"What is Ocean's Eleven, Alex!"
We iz not trollz.
We are, however, going to go have a nice spa in the dusky early evening, next to the jasmine.
Arthur needs to shout at the Boston crybabies next door.
Ahem...
Did someone mention hot divorcee?
And he's probably out on a date with some hot divorcee right now.
Guess he didn't check his e-mail...
Boston crybabies?
We are all made of stars.
We iz not trollz.
We iz!!! Do you haz snax?
We are all made of stars.
Richard
I'm mostly made of snot.
I just learned that Jane Weidlin from the GoGos is a dominatrix...
All these early 80s rocker chicks look older than I do. It shocks me.
What part of the Bible was the colliding galaxies in?
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All these early 80s rocker chicks look older than I do. It shocks me.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
I heard their lips are sealed.
(Just got that joke from the 80's)
WTF are you people going on about?
Keep it down...I'm trying to get some sleep!
Those d___ed black and white terrierists with the hypothyroidic eyes. All day long, bitching and moaning about everything. "Our person has gone", "the landlord's in the hall", "what was the siren going on about", "where is the key", "Did you remember to eat the kid's homework." Absolutely endless.
Jane Weidlin turns 50 next month.
Someone posted a link earlier to a Bit Torrent offering. I downloaded the link, grabbed a Bit Torrent client, Azureus and set things up. The Azureus client has lots of videos related to space, including Hubble stuff, Mars Rovers, and STS launches.
Hello.
I went to the Museum of the Native American and both parts of the National Gallery today.
I'm so tired I could puke.
Tried to tell Josie that Boston terriers are dogs. She discounts the possibility...
Jane Weidlin turns 50 next month.
Jiminey GoGo Crickets!
It's nice to know the universe will continue even if we destroy our planet as we know it today.
Chuck Missler, a former systems analyst turned evangelical preacher and born physics nerd, argues that six-day creation is possible because time was faster back then, and it is slowing down thanks to entropy and the expansion of the universe, which is not due to the big bang.
I went to the Museum of the Native American and both parts of the National Gallery today.
Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Brooklyn anymore!
God, Rick Springfield is still fucking hot, and he's almost 60.
Simels, take heart.
mer
It's nice to know the universe will continue even if we destroy our planet as we know it today.
Heh. The universe won't even care. Ecce Homo indeed.
It's nice to know the universe will continue even if we destroy our planet as we know it today.
I doubt that we can destroy the planet. We can destroy ourselves and all the other animals, sure, but the planet will go on.
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Our galaxy is colliding with another galaxy? Shit. What time is this supposed to happen? I was going shopping. But I think I'll go f*ck Naomi Campbell, instead. Anyone got her number? She looks like she could use it. Might as well go out with a big bang, yeah?
OK, a little bang. How do these spammers KNOW???!!!
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Heh. The universe won't even care. Ecce Homo indeed.
I care.
/Luke Skywalker
Messiah Obama to Billary:
"Can you keep on bitch-slapping me like that? Reminds me of Michelle...."
Echidne: yup; can't make the point often enough. Nature is far more adaptable than is technological human civilization.
I always had a thing for Belinda Carlisle.
Now Mo Dowd likes Hillary -- because she eats her fries
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/2...ion/
27dowd.html
Use the fork, Luke. Not the spoon!
Hah! found it. Grieg's March of the Trolls. Music for this blog:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=b...feature=related
Dowd likes it that Hillary Clinton eats her fries like a man.
"I doubt that we can destroy the planet. We can destroy ourselves and all the other animals, sure, but the planet will go on."
--Echidne
Of course, you're right. It's what I was thinking, but I didn't word it correctly.
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Now Mo Dowd likes Hillary -- because she eats her fries
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/2...ion/ 27dowd.html
P O'Neill | Homepage | 04.26.08 - 8:12 pm | #
Really? I drink her milkshake.
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This is the song my ex-husband insisted we have our first dance to at our wedding.
(Hint: It's the ultimate 80s song; we were married in '86.)
Dowd likes it that Hillary Clinton eats her fries like a man.
I'm gonna get myself diagnosed with something mental. To compete in the field of political commentary that appears absolutely necessary. Just think of Christopher Hitchens and of Maureen Dowd and so many others.
From the Credit Where Credit is Due Department, Dave Ross took his whorish media colleagues to task in the commentary I just heard (CBS News Radio), noting that (to paraphrase) there's nothing Jeremiah Wright can do in today's media environment to get the truth out about what he has said,... so he went to Bill Moyers' show, about the only place left in the media where the truth still matters. How sad that this is true.
Eh, just had to vent. Back to finish that fascinating YouTube Echidne posted last night, and lurking in general. Have a good evening all.
I always had a thing for Belinda Carlisle.
Me, too. So pretty. A Republican, natch.
This is a better March of the Trolls:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=d...feature=related
All those galaxies really saw their draft prospects slide following their collisions.
I went to the Museum of the Native American and both parts of the National Gallery today.
Did you eat in the cafeteria at the Museum of the American Indian? If not, should head back tomorrow and give it a try: foods of native peoples from across the Americas. Teh awesome.
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Echid:
blogs are for venting, not for "commentary".
Enjoy.
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Dowd likes it that Hillary Clinton eats her fries like a man.
Is Dowd saying that Hill has a prehensile penis?
Oh, no, that would be eating AS a man. My bad.
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his is the song my ex-husband insisted we have our first dance to at our wedding.
I'd have picked Safety Dance.
Just think of Christopher Hitchens and of Maureen Dowd and so many others.
It's all about the booze.
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echid:
on the other hand, if you're yet another "progressive" mental case--that's different...
Good evening, bloggers!
E-mail subject line of the day:
"Cum filled panty for sale"
Like, ewww. DOAN WANT!
I never had a thing for Belinda Carlisle.
Me, too. So pretty. A Republican, natch.
She lives in France and is apparently a Buddhist. She put out an album in french last year.
Dowd likes it that Hillary Clinton eats her fries like a man.
ProfWombat
Men and women eat fries differently (I mean besides CoT, who likes some strange dipping sauce, iirc)?
on the other hand, if you're yet another "progressive" mental case--that's different...
I'm very smart and can put my big toes in my eye sockets should I so wish to do.
Echidne: there's an astounding, truly astounding amount of psychopathology visible in politics and the media these days; no attempt to hide it, mitigate it, even. It dominates the discourse with extraordinary frequency, regularly trumping anything approaching fact, logic and analysis. I've never seen anything like it.
I'd have picked Safety Dance.
Gomez
But you weren't my first husband, natch.
I was all excited about the Pentagon suspending it's military analyst propaganda program (even if it is temporary), until I read this morning's paper and learned we might be attacking Iran soon.
Cripes, I hope this is all just posturing. It's scaring the crap out of me.
Zombie Chief Justice no I didn't but my friend did.
I took the tour and the guide said that the cafeteria has 365 chairs.
Cool, eh?
"Cum filled panty for sale"
What kind of panty?
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Beale:
What, Hillary out behind the backstop again?
I never had a thing for Belinda Carlisle.
Yuck. Girl couldn't carry a tune if it had handles.
I'd have picked Safety Dance.
Gomez
That's okay, I never wanted to fuck Kraftwerk.
What, Hillary out behind the backstop again?
Now, that's mean.
It dominates the discourse with extraordinary frequency, regularly trumping anything approaching fact, logic and analysis. I've never seen anything like it.
It IS odd. Odder than one might think at first glance, because the first glance suggests that they do it because we then talk about it and the ads get more clicks. But it would be possible to write on the issues in a fetching manner and we'd click on those more.
Cool, eh?
Tis. And it is the best food on the mall or in any of the restaurants surrounding the mall. Except maybe for that tapas place.
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What kind of panty?
Granny panty?
Echid:
a "progressive" who's also a contortionist can utterly write her own ticket...
That's okay, I never wanted to fuck Kraftwerk.
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
I hear they kept their rooms neat as a pin.
like we all know that chimp and cheney and their collection of whores and fawning acolytes in the media are on the tvs on cspan at the WH reporters dinner. ed chen of LATimes is sitting next to mrs. chimp.
they put their hands of their hearts for the star spangled banner but most of them didnt sing.
do they hate america?
Rashard Mendenhall and Limas Sweed.
No more John and Jim.
My copy and paste fucks up on my new computer. That was intended for your Belinda Carlisle comment, 'mez.
Where's Toddler?
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Galaxy Song
Spoken: Whenever life gets you down Mrs. Brown,
And things seem hard or tough,
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft
And you feel that you've had quite enough...
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.
Eric Idle, "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life"
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BTW, the pics of the colliding galaxies look naughty!
The fact that idiots like Dowd can be major media figures is indicative of the decline of American civilization.
Where's Toddler?
Vicki, Who ♥ Al Gore
Haven't seen him since the afternoon.
Echidne: there's an astounding, truly astounding amount of
psychopathology visible in politics and the media these days; no
attempt to hide it, mitigate it, even.
All that lead in the atmosphere, canned foods, etc, has had an effect, apparently.
Jane Wiedlin was the true talent of the Go Gos.
You should see this 1920s 25k carved emerald on Antiques Road Show. The ring is to die for.
From the ends-justify-the-means department; office of terror torture.
Letters Give C.I.A. Tactics a Legal Rationale
By MARK MAZZETTI
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has told Congress that American intelligence operatives attempting to thwart terrorist attacks can legally use interrogation methods that might otherwise be prohibited under international law.
The legal interpretation, outlined in recent letters, sheds new light on the still-secret rules for interrogations by the Central Intelligence Agency. It shows that the administration is arguing that the boundaries for interrogations should be subject to some latitude, even under an executive order issued last summer that President Bush said meant that the C.I.A. would comply with international strictures against harsh treatment of detainees.
While the Geneva Conventions prohibit “outrages upon personal dignity,” a letter sent by the Justice Department to Congress on March 5 makes clear that the administration has not drawn a precise line in deciding which interrogation methods would violate that standard, and is reserving the right to make case-by-case judgments.
“The fact that an act is undertaken to prevent a threatened terrorist attack, rather than for the purpose of humiliation or abuse, would be relevant to a reasonable observer in measuring the outrageousness of the act,” said Brian A. Benczkowski, a deputy assistant attorney general, in the letter, which had not previously been made public.
Echidne: I think there's something rather basic going on, where individual pathologies mirror and reinforce those of the larger society. I don't think human beings were meant to live as they are so often compelled to do these days.
I'm beginning to be of the opinion that there's serious philosophical work to be done in the wake of Bushism, of at least as serious and extended as that the left found itself forced to do in Stalin's wake.
It isn't Cartier, though. If it were Cartier or Tiffany, $ 30 to $ 40 K.
Hines Ward is gonna be pissed.
Jane Wiedlin was the true talent of the Go Gos.
"talent" and "The Go Gos" -- two words that should never be in the same sentence together.
Just sayin' ...
ProfBats__t:
keep us posted, dude, on your masterwork. somehow the pathology just might be living in your own head, like a parasite..
Okay, litz, Talent and The Bangles.
Gomez,
Chicken dance.
"talent" and "The Go Gos" -- two words that should never be in the same sentence together.
Perhaps you'd like to tell us who you consider talented, so we can make snide remarks about them.
keep us posted, dude, on your masterwork. somehow the pathology just might be living in your own head, like a parasite..
Lubyanka
Must you always be an insulting prick?
Echidne: I think there's something rather basic going on, where individual pathologies mirror and reinforce those of the larger society. I don't think human beings were meant to live as they are so often compelled to do these days.
You are right. I have tried to get a wider view but it's hard when you live inside the era. But we are losing our connection to the soil and to each other in a very fundamental sense at the very same time that soil is in trouble. The ideas of kindness, caring and empathy are trivialized or ridiculed. Globalization is a game with mostly losers, yet those losers are told that they are winning.
Then there is the whole "it's just how things are" meme, which I hear more and more often on television and radio. This stops further analysis in its tracks.
I'm beginning to be of the opinion that there's serious philosophical
work to be done in the wake of Bushism, of at least as serious and
extended as that the left found itself forced to do in Stalin's wake.
If I may interject, ProfWombat, we've not come to terms with *any* of our country's wrongdoings to date. Dealing with Bushism is going to be at the tail of a very long line.
Lubyanka: you have an idea, a fact, out with it. Otherwise, I'll continue to ignore you. I've got better things to do than respond to otherwise meaningless insult.
Well, folks, I had kinda hoped that some food would improve my cranky mood, but it hasn't, although I did have a brief moment of grinhood posting this week's Bonus Critter Blogging.
I think it best I absent myself from this felicity.
Have a good evening, bats. The rest of you, ESAD.
Okay, litz, Talent and The Bangles.
Ach. Marginally better, but only barely.
Revolutionary Sewing Circles might be a good idea. Or Gardening Clubs For Ass Kickers.
If I may interject, ProfWombat, we've not come to terms with *any* of our country's wrongdoings to date. Dealing with Bushism is going to be at the tail of a very long line.
GeorgeM | 04.26.08 - 8:30 pm | #
But Bushism is much constructed from America's original sins of slavery and extermination.
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If you want to understand politics, you need to observe the behavior of some of our more aggressive fellow primates. We won out over them because we are even more aggressive, territorial, hierarchical, technological and our A-chimps are crazier.
The least reasonable person always wins, in our system, unless all the other chimps gang up on him/ her. It's like prison.
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Perhaps you'd like to tell us who you consider talented, so we can make snide remarks about them.
Certainly!
From the '80s, I was a fan of Eurythmics, Echo & The Bunnymen, David Bowie, the English Beat ...
The Go Gos had some really good songs. So I assume that someone had some talent there and all I have to go on is what I can hear and see as a musician. Wiedlin could play her instrument and put together a catchy tune.
If you want to understand politics, you need to observe the behavior of some of our more aggressive fellow primates. We won out over them because we are even more aggressive, territorial, hierarchical, technological and our A-chimps are crazier.
But we don't know this. We may have "won" because we were like the bonobos.
Tried to tell Josie that Boston terriers are dogs. She discounts the possibility....
Josie Wombat Johnson is correct!
Did the Go-Gos sing, "This town is our town, this town is so glamorous. I bet you'd live here if you could and be one of us"?
I liked that song.
I'm beginning to be of the opinion that there's serious philosophical work to be done in the wake of Bushism, of at least as serious and extended as that the left found itself forced to do in Stalin's wake.
ProfWombat | 04.26.08 - 8:27 pm | #
We live with Dewey's moral failure to confront either race or WWI. A failure that revealed something was deeply wrong with American liberalism - that is was too deeply invested in the empire.
Prof Bats__t:
will be waiting here for your groundbreaking work on yet another tired, marginal, stupid "progressive" meme--"Our Bush-Caused Horrible Times For Me And My Fellow, Uh, 'Progressives'..."
But Bushism is much constructed from America's original sins of slavery and extermination.
Why did we build this amusement park on top of an old Indian burial ground?!
George: sure; I've read Zinn and agree with you. But Bushism has been a sustained assault on reality, an exaltation of politics over truth, a renunciation of the values of the American political contract to which we've always at least paid lip service. And it's been an abject failure, in every venue it's been tested in. We're left with the questions of why Bushism was allowed free rein, why Bushism has proven so reliable in begetting catastrophe, and how such might be avoided in the future.
The Go Gos had some really good songs.
Wiedlin was the main talent in that group. I thought the song were catchy but vapid. And I just never could get past Belinda Carlisle's weak vocals.
a "progressive" who's also a contortionist can utterly write her own ticket...
Stupedookit can stick its head so far up its ass it can suck itself up into itself.
Think of a republic black hole.
But Bushism is much constructed from America's original sins of slavery and extermination.Agreed. Do you start at the head or the tail?
From the '80s, I was a fan of Eurythmics, Echo & The Bunnymen, David Bowie, the English Beat ...
Bowie put out one good album in the '80's, and a fair amount junk.
Eurythmics had some pretty good stuff.
I didn't give a rats ass for Echo & The Bunnymen or the English Beat.
will be waiting here for your groundbreaking work on yet another tired, marginal, stupid "progressive" meme--"Our Bush-Caused Horrible Times For Me And My Fellow, Uh, 'Progressives'..."
Lubyanka
Get lost, cunt.
foods of native peoples from across the Americas. Teh awesome.
Yes, but what with things being as they are, we'd like to have our foods back, please.
'Enkew.
This town is our town, this town is so glamorous. I bet you'd live here if you could and be one of us"
Korn?
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But we don't know this. We may have "won" because we were like the bonobos.
Echidne | Homepage | 04.26.08 - 8:34 pm | #
We do know this by observing our present system.
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Did the Go-Gos sing, "This town is our town, this town is so glamorous. I bet you'd live here if you could and be one of us"?
I liked that song.
alcyone
yep
David Bowie is a rip off, commercialized Iggy Pop.
Blech.
Howard Zinn!!! The glorious poster-boy of America's "progressive" malcontents!
you go, Zinnian numbnuts!!
comedy on steroids, dudes!
We're left with the questions of why Bushism was allowed free rein, why Bushism has proven so reliable in begetting catastrophe, and how such might be avoided in the future.
I don't have the answers to these questions, naturally, but allowing a theoretical idea (neoconism) to take over the practical business of running a country is surely part of the problem. Add to that the conservative spirit of the 1990s, with lots of public values changing towards more regressive ones, the general obliviousness of many voters to the hidden issues (or any kinds of issues as opposed to "character") and so on.
"We won out over them because we are even more aggressive, territorial, hierarchical, technological and our A-chimps are crazier."
Did we really win? What does winning mean? Destroying the earth faster?
Go Go's - This Town
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T...h?
v=TmSE6Pd5xws
I didn't give a rats ass for Echo & The Bunnymen or the English Beat.
I didn't like a lot of punk or "new wave" but those two I loved. "I Confess" was a favorite.
Echid:
Bonobo this...
Courtesy the beautiful Audrey, for the blog
We do know this by observing our present system.
That goes around in a circle, though, arguing that the present explains the past which explains the present.
Scuze me, I'm gonna take a Lubyanka and then wipe my Annie.
comedy on steroids, dudes!
Tossed Salad and Lubejobbit are the most tedious trools on the web.
yep
Tralfaz
Just tried to find it on YouTube. No luck. But I saw they also did "Vacation all I ever wanted Vacation got to get away." I sing that song all the time when life gets crazy.
The nose causes the tail!
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"We won out over them because we are even more aggressive, territorial, hierarchical, technological and our A-chimps are crazier."
Did we really win? What does winning mean? Destroying the earth faster?
mer | 04.26.08 - 8:39 pm | #
By the logic of our system, we won because we use THEIR hands/ paws for trophies, not the other way around.
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A martial arts film starring Chiwetel Ejifor?
I am SO THERE!
Frank Rich takes a break from Hillary-bashing, sort of
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/2...ion/
27rich.html
Echid:
Bonobo this...
Straight out of the Charlie Rockett years.
Breaking: The Packers have drafted a QB.
Go Go's - This Town
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T...h? v=TmSE6Pd5xws
Richard | Homepage
HEY! How'd you do that???
And the Michigan QB is going to Miami.
Just tried to find it on YouTube. No luck.
Look at my last comment. I found it.
here's a solution:
pray for cheaper gas
Gomez: