When I look at what we are proposing, it is simply good design.
– Will Johnston
The competition for the top spot was very tight this week: though Mike Siegel squeaked the others out, Jesse Walker contributed three (“bullshit”, “roots” and “Miami”) and four others two each. The first video (via Lenore Skenazy) mocks people panicking over incredibly-unlikely events, and the second (via Neil Gaiman) is a performance of a unique musical instrument designed by Leonardo da Vinci but never before built until now. The links between the videos were provided by Radley Balko (“mutants” & “update”), Pencil Bloke (“headline”), Popehat (“burrito” & “doorknobs”), Walter Olson (“Etsy”), Cop Block (“puppycide” & “watering”), Aspasia (“38”), Merkin O’Grady (“Yakety Sax”), Grace (“ticket” & “paraplegic”), and Jason Kuznicki (“time machine”).
- Understatement: event which won’t occur again until 79811 described as “once in a lifetime“.
- The most superfluous movie sequel ever.
- The ultimate photobomb.
- Which Doctor are you?
- Panoramic mutants.
- Headline of the week.
- Cops panic over a burrito.
- Humiliated Etsy boyfriends.
- But for video, puppycide edition.
- Grandma, what deep roots you have!
- Vancouver, BC bans doorknobs. Really.
- Cops murder man for watering his lawn.
- The 38 most inexplicable images on the internet.
- Overdub any video soundtrack with “Yakety Sax”.
- My bullshit detector is going off, but it’s a cool story.
- The Miami Gardens police department’s reign of terror.
- Woman strip-searched and jailed for late payment of traffic ticket.
- Update on grocer robbed by government for making bank deposits.
- Cop gropes paraplegic’s genitals, plants drugs on him, beats him up.
- Politician destroys homeless people’s possessions with sledgehammer.
- Teen somehow manages to shoot himself while handcuffed in police car.
- Church of Scientology opens new “super power building”, complete with time machine.
From the Archives
- Cops, snitching, journalism, mind control, vampires, birds, weed, fans, zip ties, omnishambles, D&D, censorship, nuts and a haunted toaster.
- Anyone who believes teenage boys are harmed by the sight of naked women should seek professional help immediately.
- Californians who voted for Measure B had no idea what they supported.
- Sex rays contaminate a district attorney’s office and a reading program.
- It’s good to see another evil “controlling prostitution” charge defeated.
- It takes perverse talent to fit so many myths into such a small space.
- New York “officials” reduce women to infantilized, passive objects.
- “White slavery”, the Shazam! fallacy and a Victorian Nick Kristof.
- What James Bond can teach us about “sex trafficking” hysteria.
- What forward and backward on sex work policy both look like.
- The government of Denmark has rejected the Swedish model.
- Young women do as they’ve always done. Everybody panic!
- The FBI’s plan to ensnare hundreds of sex workers is foiled.
- Throwing tantrums is now considered a mental disorder.
- An act of kindness morphs into a “child sex slave” panic.
- The beginning of Super Bowl hysteria in Indianapolis.
- Uganda’s harsh new law against homosexuality.
- An incredible train wreck of a story from Nigeria.
- How governments ruin bad date lines.
- How I manage my prodigious output.
- A mobile sex worker rights billboard.
- The return of star chamber courts.
- A leper tries to change its spots.
- The truth about succubae.
- “The Logical Song“.
- The Night Walker.
I don’t really get it – but that quiz makes me sound like a pussy so I don’t like it very much. :/
I’m a little surprised you didn’t link any of the JFK stuff this week. Conspiracies! Conspiracies! Get over it! He was killed by a solitary Marxist. Maybe that’s why the press can’t accept it …
Which reminded me of this speech – which I’m sure Kevin Costner plagiarized from my own brain …
A solitary Marxist who was for some reason re-admitted to the country after defecting, and was conveniently killed when it looked like he might talk, while someone else had a much better motive & more power to do it.
I think LHO was just another example of government incompetence … and that incompetence repeated itself the 9-11 hijackers getting in and actually getting pilot training here in the states! I hear where you’re coming from – and I used to believe he had help too – until I actually did a tour of duty in the White House. The people who work in DC are too stupid to come up with a plan that good and too incompetent to keep it secret very long if they did.
Plus – as the NSA leaks prove – other people find out what’s going on – and nothing’s been leaked in the 50 years since his death.
Also – I had 24 years of “undetected crime” in the Navy. When I say “crime” I really mean violating idiotic rules so that the MISSION can be carried out successfully. I found the best way to avoid detection was to make sure I was the only one in on the scheme! LOL
There are enough unanswered questions about JFK’s assassination that I can’t really blame people for believing most of the theories.
The one that bothers me is that most people still don’t know RFK’s assassin was a Palestinian terrorist, because the mainstream media, then and now, refuse to mention it.
Hmmm, the test tells me that I’m the 10th Doctor. I’m not sure what that means. I do remember watching the first live episode (50 years ago yesterday), and I did watch for a while afterwards. But it’s all so complicated now.
*Beware spoilers*
I mean, I did watch most of The Day of the Doctor yesterday, and got completely lost. There were two Queen Elizabeths at one point, both of whose heaving bosoms looked as if the bodices were about to be ripped from them (they weren’t), And there was this old guy, who might or might not have been a Doctor; and who was accompanied by the personification of his conscience. This was Belle de Jour, not exactly someone I’d have thought the Doctor associated with. And a tart with a conscience? C’mon, that’s stretching credibility just a little too far.
Oops, sorry Maggie I didn’t send you the one about the Vancouver doorknobs myself. Being a resident however, my reaction to the story was wishing they’d remove the doorknobs in my apartment building too. (damn grandfather clause!)
Re Vancouver dooknob/levers: methinks a relative of someone on the town council, someone who manufactures (and maybe even has a patent on) door levers, has just been issued a license to print money.
I am, apparently, The Fourth Doctor. Jellybaby, anyone? 😎