Breaking News - US Supreme Court denies request for stay of execution for Georgia inmate Troy Davis - wire services

Breaking News - US Supreme Court denies request for stay of execution for Georgia inmate Troy Davis - wire services.

Well, that's fucking absurd.

Why is legally killing people legal?

Why are we so thirsty for blood and revenge?

motherjones:Note to National Guard motor-pool trainers: Tell future recruits that, when in doubt, you don’t plow your government-issue cargo truck through 10-foot floodwater. Especially if you can’t swim.Who, *seriously* can’t swim, though? I mean, it’s practically instinctual if you don’t overthink it. In other news, we have idiots in our military.But they’re all heroes and stuff.

Democracy Now! Headlines for October 25, 2010: Texan GOP Candidate: Violent Revolution Might Be Needed in US

Democracy Now! Headlines for October 25, 2010: Texan GOP Candidate: Violent Revolution Might Be Needed in US

Texan GOP Candidate: Violent Revolution Might Be Needed in US

In news from Texas, a Republican congressional candidate has told a local TV station that a violent revolution might be needed if Republicans do not win control of Congress in next month’s election. Stephen Broden, a Christian minister, made the remark in an interview with WFAA in Dallas.

Stephen Broden: “Our nation was founded on violence.”

More on this.

AW, so nice to see Rick Sanchez working again! RT @MotherJones: What’s a singing chicken doing at ABC News?

motherjones:

politico:

newsweek:

braiker:

A singing chicken just came to our newsroom to serenade a colleague on her birthday. What happened at your office today?

Is it named Kathy Jones?

Man, nothing good ever happens at our office. More singing chickens, please. 

Here, here. Nothing this good happened at the Atlantic office today, either. There’s always tomorrow.

QUICK! TAZE HIM!

Maybe that’s the chicken Ernie Anastos was referring to?

Chicken Nuggets Are Made From This Pink Goop

Chicken Nuggets Are Made From This Pink Goop

Chickens are turned into this goop so we can create delicious chicken nuggets and juicy chicken patties. It’s obscenely gross and borderline alien…

and:

…because it’s crawling with bacteria, it will be washed with ammonia, soaked in it, actually. Then, because it tastes gross, it will be reflavored artificially. Then, because it is weirdly pink, it will be dyed with artificial color.

Wow… WTF is wrong with the people serving this “food” to us? This isn’t a case of being an educated consumer—who knows to be THIS INSANELY paranoid about food?

Well, you and me, now… sheesh…

Even our cheese isn't safe from the absurdity of human behavior.

chelseawayward:

Rennet

is a natural complex of enzymes produced in any mammalian stomach to digest the mother’s milk, and is often used in the production of cheese.

Natural calf rennet is extracted from the inner mucosa of the fourth stomach chamber (the abomasum) of young, unweaned calves. These stomachs are a by-product of veal production. (source)

That’s right, some of the cheese we eat is made with stomach juice from slaughtered baby calves.  Yeah…I have a problem with this.  My diet is definitely changing.

This baffles me. What weirdo was the first to think “let’s extract the juices from a calf’s fourth stomach and see what happens when we add it to cheese!”

And who’s the idiot who didn’t immediately respond with: “Shut up, Steve. That’s a stupid idea.”

OK, the asteroid can really come any day now.  I still have stuff I want to do, but we’re so screwed up I wouldn’t blame the universe for not wanting us around anymore. >_<