Hand Jive

A reminder that good hygiene isn't restricted to laboratory practices:



Once again, via yeah-it's-high-time-I-dropped-this-from-my-feed-reader FailBlog.

Isn't Anybody Gonna Help That Poor Man?

A preview of the inauguration festivities?

AstrLOLogy

The predictive power of astrology is kinda like... like...



(Via the increasingly repetitive, yet still occasionally chuckle-worthy, FailBlog)

Flyover Country

I recently started reading James (The Amaz!ng) Randi's "Flim Flam", and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. One of my favorite bits of debunktastic trivia so far comes from the chapter on the Bermuda Triangle (p. 45). The promoters of "the Legend" apparently like to cite as an example a British York Transport flight from the Azores destined for Jamaica that went down in 1953. What they fail to mention, however, is that this flight was bound for Jamaica via Newfoundland, and that it was during this first leg of the journey that the plane crashed, 900 miles north of the Triangle!

Anyway, I mention that mostly as a lead-in to this fantastic Onion article: 30 Years Of Man's Life Disappear In Mysterious 'Kansas Rectangle'. I especially love the comments from the token skeptic towards the end.

I Have a Friend in Vincent

Sara and I have been watching through Season One of "The Muppet Show" on DVD, and tonight the episode that just happened to come up was the one guest-starring Vincent Price. How incredibly appropriate for Hallowe'en! And even if it weren't Hallowe'en, who doesn't love Vincent Price?

But all is not well, for apparently the Season One release cuts out an entire scene from this episode. Now, that's bad enough in of itself. But dear friends, do you know what scene was omitted? Why, none other than Vincent's big closing number.

The bastards. THE FUCKING BASTARDS! ZOD DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!!!

You have no idea how upset that makes me. I mean, what decent person leaves a man's big musical number on the cutting room floor? So much for the "complete" first season. Just one more reason to loathe Disney executives.

Thankfully, the episode is included in its entirety in the "Best of the Muppet Show" DVD collection, which I also own. And of course, there's always the magic of the Internet. So now let's take a moment to enjoy Vincent's big finish. Together. As a family.

SMBC Continues to Deliver

I know we've all felt this way at one point or another:

Bill Maher on Christian Missionaries

Maher's "New Rules" are always great (I love his take on Jerry Falwell). The last rule from this clip of Friday's show is especially fantastic:

Celebrating Bible Science

All the animals in the world came off Noah's Ark. ALL OF THEM. Be sure to remind people of the Truth with this auto sticker:

(From the ever-so-subtle parody site Objective: Ministries)

Dead Parrot Creationism

I'd seen this video before, but Hemant just posted it yesterday, and it really never gets old...



Brilliant editing job.

More LOL Creationists

Kent Hovind's turn.

Happy LOL Day!

I never thought I'd ever contribute to a meme like this, but give me the right theme, and boy howdy...