Thanks to TYWKIWDBI for finding an item of Innuit cuisine from Greenland that is even more daunting than the Norse Lutefisk! Kiviaq, which I believe is named for the sound one makes if one is downwind when dinner is served, is made from thirty-or-so auks sewn-up in [more...]
Seen & Heard on the Web A tiger mother lost her cubs from premature labor. Shortly after she became depressed and her health declined, and she was diagnosed with depression. So they wrapped up piglets in tiger cloth, and gave them to the tiger. The [more...]
When the news gets too real I go to a wonderful site called faithinthegood and I always feel better. Here’s a small sample: Be seeing you.
sadanduseless via twentytwowords Be seeing you.
A tattooed buzz-cut.
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After
. Each pigment color is designed to look just like an actual short hair that might be growing …
The news out of Michigan this morning is that not all women in America are angry at Santorum financial backer, Foster Friess for stating that a safe and effective form of birth control for women is a simple aspirin placed between the knees.
Women were …
Mitt Romney has some of the richest conservatives on the earth backing him for President, but they are becoming increasingly worried that he’s losing favoritism in the polls.
Many believe it is just a phase and that in the end, Romney will win out ov…
OK. I know that “extreme” is an extremely over-used modifier, but in this case it is appropriate. Every year since 1933 the Indian village of Kila Raipur has held its rural sports competition, in which people compete in foot races and other, somewhat more unusual [more...]
From Wikipedia… August Landmesser was a worker at the Blohm + Voss shipyard in Hamburg, Germany, and is best known for his appearance in a photograph refusing to perform the Nazi salute at the launch of the naval training vessel Horst Wessel on 13 June, 1936. He had been a Nazi Party member from 1931 to 1935, but after fathering [more...]
When you talk about the economy being bad, you usually think this is great news for debt collectors. More people defaulting on their loans means more phone calls, and more phone calls means more bonus money in the pocket.
Unfortunately, not all debt co…