Too many parrots

I got 99 problems and too many parrots is but one of them.

Home is where you make it

Fun fact to know and share: Birds that build nests using cigarette butts have much healthier chicks. The reason being lack of parasites, as no mite or tick dares cross the chemical monstrosity that is butt nest.

Does it hurt the birds? Studies so far say not at all, but the opposite - cigarettes help birds live healthier lives.

Cassini

That "star" you see in the middle right is actually Earth. Our world, from Cassini.

Cassini is currently cruising around Saturn, taking it all in.

Cassini is one of mankind's greatest achievements, on par with the pyramids etc. And I mean that both ironically and unironically.

Pyramid Power

I ironically agree with all of this save for the Queen of England at the top. C'mon! Rupert Murdoch has more pull than the Queen of England for crikey's sake.

Pretty much true, sorry if that offends your bourgeois sensibilities.

This is actual fact, not conjecture. For America - land of the free.

But a Taste of the Terror

I'm not sure what's going on here, really, but I present it as Exhibit A, The Kids These Days.

Cyber ready with their smart phones and internet cliques and energy drinks.

But of course this is the tip of the iceburgh, as the Tubes allow for all manner of expression (slightly NSFW):

Freedom is Slavery

It's like a Black Fly in your Chardonnay. But where I'm from, a dead Black Fly in your wine is one less bug that will bite you, so, yay!

Ironic, yeah?

Missin' Mitt

Remember this guy?! Probably not. He was so stereotypically rich and bland and forgettable I can't blame you if he has already exited your memory. Here's some reminders.

It's Mexican Mitt! Fun fact - Mitt really is a bit Mexican, though of course he could not advertise that fact to his fungal based supporters. This pic was one of the glories of the campaign - Mitt on Telemundo, heavy on the tan spray.

Gosh, we never did get to see those taxes, did we?

Another fun fact! Mitt did not write a concession speech - as it was beyond conception that he would lose! Really, he believed that. His whole staff believed that, apparently. For example, Mitt made no travel plans back from his "victory party", assuming the Secret Service would take care of it for him. But the minute he lost, poof! No more Secret Service, and Mitt had to have Tagg or Track or Tacoma (his son) drive him to one of his homes. Oh, sweet schadenfreude - consider it! He sincerely, absolutely believed he was going to win, even though all the polls and all the evidence said otherwise.

Two days after the election, back in Cali (where he really lives), pumping his own gas. Sweet, sweet schadenfreude.

Romney-Ryan 2012 Campaign summary.

Yay! Free shirts!

Rebel Patriots

Real Americans support the Confederacy.

Pure Americans support the Confederacy.

There's no irony south of the imaginary Mason Dixon line.

Diligent (Sponsored By)

This photo has been begging to join our blog, for years now. Look at the irony, it said! Finally, I agree. But only ironically.

Thrall to a system

This is a terrible joke, and I apologize.

Have you heard about this? Read about this? Wolf Blitzer (what a name!) played Celebrity Jeopardy a few years back and was terrible. He doesn't know anything, apparently. But then, you don't need to know anything to host a long running news program on CNN, the most trusted name in news.

Imagine a world where the most avowed Christians are also the most hateful people possible. What if - just asking questions here - what if Satan had actually taken over Christianity, and all Christians are really working on behalf of The Dark Lord?

Ironic!

Prosperity Gospel!

Let me play

Devils Advocate: Republicans are Satan's agents.

Satan, Lord of Chaos and Evil. And Irony.

Hipsters got everything on T-shirts.

I forget

I'm too hip to watch TV, so I have no idea what the TV talked about today in regards 911. My sources on the Intertubes were remarkably muted. So muted I said to myself, "Redshirt, I think we're finally over 911 in some significant sense." Even the 911 jokes were kinda lame. As such!

A stylish 911 shirt.

Have some 911 candy! The nougat filling is made of irony.

Plenty of folks got 911 birthdays, and who could forget that? No one, never!

What I'll never forget is the way 911 was used by some in power to gain more power, and to engage in acts of empire. And get filthy rich. Never forget that, and the way the event is used to manipulate you. Laugh instead, even if you suffered tragedy. Because tragedy will always happen - it just happens, sometimes. It need not be a Kristallnacht. And so as I said before, I mock. I laugh. I post stupid jokes. Why not? The real terror is this reality.

To end with perhaps an actual funny joke, click below - but beware! Boobies.

OBOT

I've become a single issue voter these days: Stop Republicans. The man best in position to do that is Barack Obama, so I support him 100%. As should any good person. And so I don't ever feel the need to debate this policy or that, or whatever revelation that comes out, in fact, I don't question BHO in the least regard while I still hold him sincere and good. Is he, sincere and good? Yes, unequivocally. Disagree with his policies if you must, be at least respect him as sincere and out for the common good.

Is that hypocritical of me? I accuse Republican followers of the same mindless following of their political leaders. But, their leaders are actual evil and are actively doing harm to our country. So, there's a difference! You see?

The first one is OUTRAGEOUS! Literally, it was a "news" story on Fox and Allies. The second picture of course, buried deep in some obscure archive. Who cares?!

The Republican mind at work today, so beware. Even fair seeming or even nice Republicans must support this evil, if they are Republicans.

But let us not end in negativity! Choom Gang, bring it home.

Barry Obama, All American Golden Child. Suck it, Wingnuts.

Hipster World

Yeah, man, I was into Hitler way before he tried to take on the world and kill everyone. Back when he was just a struggling artist, working beer halls. Man.

A real store in India. Looks trey hip.

Tangentially,

The John Galt store in LA.

Republican Jesus III

Republican Jesus hates poor people, because they are poor. Why are they poor, Jesus asks? Because they suck. So why would Republican Jesus care about homeless people, or handicapped people, or old folks with no relatives, and so on? Oh yeah, because they're EVIL.

Our side rules!

Hipster Jesus

Hipster Jesus is cool man. Check out the Chucks! He's got long hair, likes obscure music, and is great fun at parties. Join up!

But what if you were never cool? Is Hipster Jesus a front runner?

I better get to a cool church and find out!

Not as cute as

Victory over America is a great party. Not many can drink to that.

Eternal vigilance is the price of constant paranoia.

Down with the bogus holiday of love! Down with Hallmark motivations!

No hipster left unturned.

Never give up!

It's not that the Republican "brain trust" hasn't been trying to create the next Reagan. W. was a real serious attempt - witness the phony ranch in Crawford - but alas!

The incompetence was too great for even the Media to spin as a success, and apart from the 27%, Bush is widely seen as a tremendous failure. But you don't quit the game! You keep playing!

Palin is a more organic (that is, from the Teabag bottom up rather than from the elites on high) version of the same phenomena, but even somehow more incompetent, and thankfully we still reside in a reality where competence counts for something.

A pic from the governor's meeting with then President elect Obama. Oh, how she must have burned!

Again, the horizon seems free of anything approaching charismatic base competence in the Republican future, in terms of both leadership and ideas. This is all they have left:

Mockery and bad memes. And this is their version of a LOL meme now - posing with an empty wine glass. Ha!

Gay Republicans - is there anything funnier?

Yes We Can, With Atoms!

By harnessing the power of the atom we can achieve a glorious worker's paradise that not only would achieve complete equality on Earth, but allow us to export this equality to the stars. Atoms!

Or not quite. Like with any Godlike power - and the power of the atom could certainly be considered Godlike (consider, the matter within you now has the equivalent power of thousands of the biggest nuclear bombs) - there's a downside. And that would be the extinction of humanity and a good bit of all life on Earth.

From one of the earliest H bomb tests.

Loose slots and mushroom clouds on the horizon - visit Nevada! Nukes are good for business.

Where would the fall out shelter industry be without them?

And they can help with marketing choices.

But seriously, folks, nuclear bombs are bad, m'kay? Take it from Mr. Oppenheimer:

It's a heavy legacy - to be considered the "Father of the Bomb" or perhaps "Destroyer of Worlds". But he was but one man among many, and the morality of the Bomb at the time is complex. Such is the price of opening Pandora's Box. Wonders and terrors hitherto never even conceived! Consider it - before the concepts of the atom were understood (late 1800's), all of this was unimaginable, literally. And now, today, we could destroy our world in the next 30 minutes. Also literally.

Or, if we were more mature/wise, we could power all of humanity's technology using safe nuclear power.

But we're not very mature now, are we?