SATURDAY #2071

THE NEWSY BITS...

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 Girl pulling books out of rubble…

The girl is Palestinian, but she could have been Israeli, because, as the Kikuyu people in Kenya say, "When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers."

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"Some parents were baffled," according to a news report.....

"An Oklahoma high school teacher "confessed to drinking vodka in her car before work," which probably explains why she showed up for her first day of teaching drunk and wandering the halls with no pants."

Alcohol is a hell of a drug, people....especially in the morning.

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Size comparison...

 Then there's the face...

 I can assure you that you can find a face in a pile of dog shit if you look at it just right.

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It turns out that the 17-year-old Virginia boy suspected of participating in a "mutual and consensual exchange of nude photos between two teenagers" won't have to be injected with drugs to induce a medical erection so that Manassas City Police could photograph his penis and compare it to the erect penis photo in the text message.

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Every year the Scrabble gods add new words to the 100,000+ already approved by the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary.  This year dubstep, mixtape, hashtag, frenemy, sudoko, and chillax are representative of modern coinages now recognized for game use.  Quinzhee (a shelter hollowed out of a pile of snow) and qajaq are examples of more exotic fare.

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Bear saves bird from drowning...

Inter-species empathy or just curiosity?

Everybody hates a racist, but a racist only hates a few people.

Oops....

‘City Decor’, A Street Art Project Featuring Decorative Doily Stencils by Artist NeSpoon...

I have no idea what this means...

Periodically, my wife takes a folding chair out back of her store and a woman gives her a haircut for $10 and a bottle of wine.

I say, Why the fuck not?

So what happened to the word “wherefore” go? I like that word.

Too soon?

This guy puts the log in the mold, then pours in molten aluminum....I really like the scorching...

Patriot - n. someone who wears a flag pin while moving a corporation overseas to avoid taxes.

“There are no dumb questions” is really a trap for making dumb people reveal themselves.

I regret nothing.

That's job satisfaction! Woman who works as professional sex toy tester has 15 orgasms at work a week...

AND she gets paid to write reviews.

I like clever people...

The amount of cycling clothes one wears is directly proportional to their level of douchebaggery.

There is actually a Christian website advocating anti-masturbation....true....

I was in McDonalds and watched a well-dressed middle-aged man stab a chicken nugget with a Sharpie….multiple times…then he nodded and smiled…then ate it.

Ones Of My Very Own...

Everyday you have to choice between kindness and being a dick. Choose kindness. – Plato

Americans' mantra...

Last night I said to my wife, “I’m sottally tober.”

A Southern mainstay....

 Southern Japan.

Art historian Maximilian Schich put together this pretty visualization that records humanity's cultural history over 2,600 years. The blue and red dots you see above are the birthplaces and deaths for over 120,000 people who were "notable enough" to have their births and deaths recorded.

 You might want to Youtube it.

How in the hell did they manage to do this so long ago?

Tried to find out on Google image search what this is...but failed...

Chances are, right now some alien that looks a lot like you is taking a shit.

Does. Not. Compute.

Close-up of those terra-cotta warriors in China...

And each face is a unique individual.

Supposedly, there are thousands - maybe tens of thousands - of shipping containers floating in the oceans...

CARTOONS THAT "ALMOST" DIDN'T MAKE THE CUT...

(or how to post something on Saturday without working too hard)

THEN THERE'S THIS...
My favorite bar hires mostly college students. Today many of them returned form summer vacation (or internships) from all over the country. It was a great night. The wife joined me for dinner and we visited with some of most talented, intelligent young people you ever want to meet. Like I said....it was a good night.