Things To Read And Look At

Oh my lord. Pink guns for girls. What’s next, the Barbie AK47?

“Females want to shoot guns, but they want them to look pretty, too,” he said. “Guys could give a rat’s butt what their gun looks like.”

Experimental baking:

Sweet Corn, Maple, and Bacon Cupcakes and Doughnuts and Coffee cupcakes.

Alternet: The Federal War on Medical Marijuana Becomes a War on Children

Automatic weapons. Check. Helicopters. Check. Dogs. Check. Bulletproof vests. Check.

You may not buy the government’s characterization of its campaign against medical marijuana patients as a “war on drugs,” but increasingly violent, militaristic tactics in recent months offer a troubling glimpse into the federal law enforcement community’s mentality: To them, this is war.

Not that they’re obsessed or anything. A World of Warcraft wedding cake:

Science Daily: Racism’s Cognitive Toll: Subtle Discrimination Is More Taxing On The Brain

John Dean: The Impact of Authoritarian Conservatism On American Government: Part Three in a Three-Part Series

Under Speaker Gingrich as well as Speaker Hastert, who followed him, extreme centralization of the legislative processes of the House occurred. Regularly, GOP leaders wrote the laws themselves – often relying on lobbyists to do the grunt work of drafting – rather than abiding by the regular procedures of the committees, which hold hearings and have professional staff to draft legislation. When not actually writing the laws, the House leaders often drastically changed proposed legislation themselves, typically late in the evening when no one was around to contest their actions.

Justice for war crimes is possible.

Is it a cake or a baked potato?

Well, don’t send bacteria them into space then:

Microbes that cause salmonella came back from spaceflight even more virulent and dangerous in an experiment aboard the US space shuttle Atlantis, according to a study published on Monday.

Awww, poor little loves. Who’d want to shoot kittens from a cannon? Me! Kitten Cannon flash game:

Published by Palau

Been there, done that, bought the t-shirt, washed the t-shirt 23 times, threw the t-shirt in the ragbag, now I'm polishing furniture with it.