Why We Wouldn't Want to Eat the Lovely Smell of Rain.
Oklahoma Threatens Librarians: ‘Don’t Use the Word Abortion.’ (via Wonkette)
The First Exercise Machines. They were built on solid principles that gyms still use today.
50 pictures that are accidental photographic illusions. Make that 49 accidental illusions and one at the very bottom that is a real deliberate illusion.
Monarch Butterflies are Now on the Endangered List.
Fossil of ‘earliest animal predator’ is named after David Attenborough. (via Damn Interesting)
Los Angeles, Home of the Dingbats.
The Magic of Baking Soda. You can use it in the kitchen for a lot more than baking.
OK is not OK. Librarian idiocy: Just another case where peaceful noncompliance is needed. There must be an organization that would agree to fund any legal costs ensued in carrying out the fundamental duty of a librarian, which is to help people find information. My wife is a librarian (not in OK) and I would fully support her noncompliance with such a policy.
ReplyDeleteLibrarians are government employees, so this policy would seem to violate the first amendment, though I am no legal scholar.
The civil rights movement never would have succeeded without people willing to suffer the consequences of fighting injustice.
We need a strong NUA (National Uterus Association).
ReplyDelete~ 1st - Congress shall make no law.... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press...
~ 4th - The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures...
~ 5th - No person shall be... compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself...
~ 8th - Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
I wish they had explained how Zander’s machines were supposed to do what.
The Monarch Butterflies have such a crazy cycle of migration I’m not surprised any changes to climate/weather would be catastrophic.
This anti-abortion thing, is the USA being run by the Taliban and their misogynistic dictates now ?
ReplyDeleteBasically, yes.
ReplyDeleteBut at least we're not on the metric system. Well, except for all our science and medicine and pharmacology, and machinery and automobile parts, and how the kids learn science in schools, and some of our consumer packaging like water and soups and wine, and our power units, and most importantly some ammunition sizes and weights for illicit substances. So we've got that going for us.