Try it and see for yourself!

I’m not surprised that they’ve blocked this site — assuming it wasn’t just a temporary glitch or the server in China being shut down by authorities. I’ve been pretty harsh on China in the past, and I still am. I’ve had an article titled “Texas Redistricting, China, and the Internet” sitting incomplete for so long, I can’t even remember what prompted me to put all three of them in one post. I also saw recently where China has just upped it’s defense budget by another $45 billion. They aren’t doing that because they plan to sit down and play a nice game of checkers with us.

Unless it’s on the bombed out floor of the Taiwanese Diet, that is…

I’m sick and tired of our government pussy-footing around with them. China has no problem with the idea of fishing in troubled waters right now, what with the Islamo-facist War upon us. After all, they figure they can just do the same thing to any inconvenient imams that they did to the Dali Llama: boot them out and let the West deal with them. Not, that is, that they actually have a muslim minority, unlike their neighbors to the south.

Oh, and the real laugher: Bridgebunnies is banned also. Gotta keep that dangerous anime from infecting the proles, you know. (Actually, it probably has more to do with this little rant.)

People are stupid. (h/t to The Buck Stops Here.)

Microwaved water kills plants. Just reading the convolutions some of the commenters go through makes my head hurt. FYI: this is in reference to (supposedly) an elementary school student’s project to see if giving a plant microwaved water was good for it.

My favorite comment wasn’t: “If the effect is real (and noting the criticisms here and on the page linked to), then I wonder if it’s connected with the oxygen levels in the water?”

It was the response: “Plants don’t take up oxygen from water (via roots), as far as I know.”

Sigh. While technically true, if you, good reader, don’t know what’s wrong with that, your opinion on global warming has just been invalidated, because you are are a scientific illiterate and ignorant of one of the basic parameters. Now go retake high-school biology. And stop reading this blog; the pictures are too intelligent for you.

Damn, but that much concentrated stupidity makes me snarky.

When your entire golf course is sand and rocks, should any foliage be considered a “grass trap?”

Elen Gubeb’s tattered sandals and torn jeans don’t match his pricey new Mizuno glove, but dress is not important at this homemade golf track on Namibia’s desert coast, an unlikely golf hotspot.

Very unlikely….

The nine-hole course dubbed the “West Side Club” has no greens or tees, water or grass. Stinging sand and gusts of wind whistle through a lone row of palm trees on the edge of the forbidding Namib desert.

Of course, no Reuters article could be complete without mentioning the evils left over from the colonial age:

The Namib, the world’s oldest living desert, and the barren Skeleton Coast limit employment options in the former German colony that for decades was under the control of neighboring South Africa.

Oooh, bonus points for the reference to both Germany and South Africa! How bad is the evil legacy of colonialsim? Why, this golfer is unemployed!

“I don’t work, I just play golf every day,” says Gubeb, one of thousands of youths unable to find permanent work in the poor southern African nation.

If you’d handed me that quote and asked who said it, I’d have guessed Tiger Woods, not Elen Gubeb. But since it was Elen, I’d like to know something that Reuters managed not to mention in this oh-so-brief news “story” from nowhere:

Where and how does an unemployed Namibian golfer obtain a “pricey new Mizuno glove?”

Makes one wonder….

…Monty Python’s “The Penis Song.”

Isn’t it awfully nice to have a penis?
Isn’t it frightfully good to have a dong?
It’s swell to have a stiffy.
It’s divine to own a dick,
From the tiniest little tadger
To the world’s biggest prick.
So, three cheers for your Willy or John Thomas.
Hooray for your one-eyed trouser snake,
Your piece of pork, your wife’s best friend,
Your Percy, or your cock.
You can wrap it up in ribbons.
You can slip it in your sock,
But don’t take it out in public,
Or they will stick you in the dock,
And you won’t come back.

It’s only a matter of time now. Prepare to be spammed by ads for penis replacement surgery….

Original story here. Now all we need to do is figure out how to clone eyeballs to deal with that pesky blindness problem…..

Yes, I think we should use foriegn precedents. Absolutely! If our goal is to continue the descent into madness, that is.

In the UK, a 10-year-old faces criminal charges for calling another schoolboy a name.

Yet another reason to oppose “hate speech” laws.

Proving that laywers are adaptable, Paris Hilton, some nobody that introduced her to one of her prior f–k buddies, and a California court commissioner, all agreed to a unique restraining order that prohibits her from being within 100 yards of said nobody. Except when at the same party, in which case they can be within 25 feet.

I’d like to get my own unique restraining order against her. She should not be allowed to have sex with me unless I am really, really drunk. Too drunk to run away.

Ok, I must be needing some today; I thought of me, Paris Hilton and sex in the same sentence. I mean, it’s risking God knows what disease to be in the same chapter with those two subjects. Well, definately Cystic Paparazzius or Porno Vidius, but other diseases too.