MONDAY #2073

NEWSY BITS...

Imagine a world that is completely black. You can't see a thing — unless something happens to move. You can see the rain falling from the sky, the steam coming from your coffee cup, a car passing by on the street.

This 3 minute clip taught me things about the brain I didn't know....if you have the time...enjoy...

************

Parents in Fremont, California are alarmed and demanding the removal of a health (sex) textbook that talks about masturbation, foreplay, vibrators, oral sex, and erotic touch, as well as other sexual education topics such as bondage.

(I wonder if they taught boys were the clitoris is and what it's for?)

************

Solar energy is making quantum leaps forward, at least in Australia; "The impact has been so profound, and wholesale prices pushed down so low, that few coal generators in Australia made a profit last year. Hardly any are making a profit this year. State-owned generators like Stanwell are specifically blaming rooftop solar."

These once in a lifetime events are adding up.

My wife asked me to explain the uproar over a bowl of virus.

In mid-grasp when handshaking I like to whisper, "I scratch my balls with that hand."

Is there enough blood in your body to drown another human?

Sometimes when I'm bored I wonder how I would escape the room if a crocodile came in.

People who write "I'm literally dying", should.

Chivalry isn't dead. It just followed wherever being lady-like went.

Why aren't there any black ghosts?

 Practical advice for the feminist in all of us...

9 out of 10 Americans believe that out of 10 people, 1 American will always disagree with the other 9.

The Kaaba, Mecca, in 1889...

 I'm assuming that only the richest of believers could afford to visit. Now, most believers can afford the passage.

Berlin Wall fell in 1989...

 And we watched it live on TV. I was in awe.

?????

I am considered "white" but I'm actually a mix of Irish, English, Scottish, Italian, French, Thousand Island, Ranch and Bleu Cheese.

I'm not saying I'm smarter than most other people, but I AM typing it.

 "That's the last straw."

This is an aerial view of a bridge over a frozen river...

But that's not the point. The point is, the composition "works". Now squint your eyes and pretend that you could not identify the cars, bus and road....but the composition still works. Welcome to non-representational art.

Your welcome.

A "loaf" of art, the slices of which are very expensive...

Hitler had to cut his mustache so his gas mask would seal properly...

That is exactly why my handlebar mustache was not allowed when I was serving in Europe.

This is the thick sliced bacon my wife buys. We are done with that paper thin crap...

Photographer Fefo Boouvier captured a large population of bioluminescent noctiluca glowing against the Milky Way in the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of the little town of Barra de Valizas, Uruguay...

Don't clap and cheer when a waiter drops a tray. Just don't.

I don't think anyone over 65 should be allowed to vote, because it's not their future.

This is a friend of mine, SEAN RAYFORD...

 He's a photographer and here is one of his pics...

 Here's his link if you are interested in seeing more of his stuff..

http://www.seanrayford.com/blog

What a marvelous idea!

Got small children? Try this one:
"What is E.T. short for?"
   "Extra-Terrestrial."
"I thought it was so he could fit in that bicyle basket."

A cube made out of two-way mirrors...

I used to tell my children that catfish had kittenfish.

One Of My Very Own...

 And...

Women will never know the frustration of trying to write your name in the snow and running out of urine.

Welcome to adulthood, old buddy...

You know the feeling when you wife leaves for the airport and you have the weekend to yourself and her flight is cancelled and she walks in to find you standing in the middle of the kitchen naked, drinking Jim Bean right out of the bottle....at 8:30 in the morning.

I know why. If you are playing poker, you do not want beer cans on the table because they sweat; thus fucking up the cards. 

To all my foreign viewers, I personally apologize...

What a good idea...

Not presented as a shocker...

 But to ask, why the hell do we westerners find this so repulsive?

To that small pool of water that collects on the top of up-turned cups and glasses in the dishwasher.....Fuck You.

I don't know if I could have survived such a loss.

Photography...

 Like this next one?

To me, it's just a little too "cute"....sorry.

The only time incorrectly isn't spelled incorrectly is when it's spelled incorrectly.

 Wouldn't you love to know what this guy is saying to her?

...as if she gives a shit.

Opposites don't really attract. That's just what we tell people who make shitty relationship choices.

Plus - Drinking.

Minus - People I don't know.

Here's a link to the manifesto you might like...or not...
http://boingboing.net/2014/08/09/american-manifesto.html
Here's an sample...
We live in a country with more freedoms than many and a vastly higher standard of living than most in the world. We waste more resources than many people have the opportunity to use, we have more cars than drivers, and we turn food crops into fuel while people go hungry. Our priorities are based on convenience and our leaders appear to make decisions based on financial and political gain. We as a disgruntled public stand by and allow it. We need to do something other than watch.