Well, it turns out the Rapture happened on Saturday, but it was a pretty low-key event. Only three people on Earth were in a state of grace and they haven't been missed yet. Next up, we've got a thousand years of plague, famine, and war. So we don't have to learn anything new at least.

Labels: Eschatology

As I walked through the city today, I passed a school, and heard the joyful voices of children singing lines I remembered from my own childhood:

There was a farmer, had a dog,
and Bingo was his name-O...

Well, now. A rational, thinking person must take no factual claim at face value. So I checked. Snopes.com does not confirm it.

My skepticism was vindicated. Let this be a lesson to you.

Labels: anthropology, Fact Checking

Headline of the month! All that's missing is guns:

Monster Truck Kills Woman in Strip Club Parking Lot

Driver Arrested for DUI at Spearmint Rhino

Do you see headlines like that in Germany? No. In Germany, you see headlines about consensual cannibalism. Which in my opinion is a bit weird.

No word at press time whether the truck had a schnorkel.

Labels: anthropology, Autre pays autre merde, drunks, gender dimorphism, methods considered unsound, peaceful prairieland, The Wonders of Nature, Thomas Hobbes, threat update

poland has hiared laddy gargar to be its creative dirrector! itl be like teh meiji resteration but with nekikid poeple in giant hats! holy crap!

u know waht mencken siad about politicians: "...individuals who are not only not superior to the general, but plainly and depressingly inferior, both in common sense and in common decency". BZZZT! WORNGGG!!!1!

Almost a year to the day since Polaroid said it was signing on Lady Gaga as its creative director, the popular singer unveiled on Thursday the fruits of her labor

Labels: International Relations, Leopold II of Belgium, meaningless trivia, The Grandeur that Was Greece

Today, the city of Farmington, Maine, honors the inventor of earmuffs.

Labels: All our pomp of yesterday, anthropology, blank spaces on the map, history, Killer Fact, Maine

If not, like, ever.

Labels: music, social justice, Thomas Hobbes

so I told my girlfirend i took this test that said im 4% hippie. i musta got teh four points for likin my meat raw. but anyhoow i caled her a hipie just to piss her off an she sais 'yeah wel im moare of a hippy then you because im intersted in off-the-grid selfsufficient living an your not'.

whcih she damn well knows my interests and what exactly about beign a postapocalyptic warlord isnt offgrid and selfsufficient? so i was all 'dude man admit im a hipy or ill eat ur liver'. you have to know how to relate to women.

update!

heck ive even got a celestial soul portrait!

Labels: methods considered unsound, relationship advice, retarded internet memes