Hugh Laurie - Kicking Ass

Before there was House and Black Adder, there was A Bit of Fry and Laurie. Check out the man behind the shades.
This little ditty is just as appropriate now as it was 20 years ago. Language NSFW.

It’s not just honeybees that are threatened

Burt’s Bees has been bought out.

Today, the couple’s quirky enterprise is owned by the Clorox Company, a consumer products giant best known for making bleach, which bought it for $913 million in November. Clorox plans to turn Burt’s Bees into a mainstream American brand sold in big-box stores like Wal-Mart.
I’ve been a devoted Burt’s [...]

I can has dignity back?

While these white beluga whales are being used as Christmas entertainment in Japan, their humpback cousins are being hunted down and killed by Japanese whaling fleets.
Too bad letting them live in peace doesn’t seem to be an option.

Better dead than on the dole

“What then? If he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.” –Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol
It’s unusual for hospitals, particularly public ones, to turn away patients who need non-emergency care, although they’re not required by law to treat them. But some facilities, in a cost cutting measure, now [...]

He can’t bear global warming

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It’s never the child’s fault

Seems like they just never get tired of the “Blame The Victim” game. This latest installment of crap comes to us from James Martin Davis, the defense lawyer for Kelsey Peterson, the 25-year-old teacher who fled to Mexico with her 13-year-old former student. In true slimeball fashion, he’s running down the child in [...]

Tell me this isn’t a crisis

The number of Americans lacking health insurance rose by nearly 8.6 million to 47 million from 2000 to 2006, according to a study done by the Economic Policy Institute. That’s an increase of 18 percent during the Bush administration.
From Yahoo News:
In 2006, 2.3 million fewer Americans received health benefits from their employers [...]

A protection racket in PA

From AP:
Woman jailed because of record mixup
YORK, Pa. — A mistake in court records led to a two-night jail stay for a woman being investigated by police for playing music too loud.
Andrea Conn, of Windsor, was jailed Saturday night after an officer looking into the noise complaint discovered she was wanted for failing to appear [...]

No surprises here

My Liberal Identity:

You are a Social Justice Crusader, also known as a rights activist. You believe in equality, fairness, and preventing neo-Confederate conservative troglodytes from rolling back fifty years of civil rights gains.

Take the quiz at www.FightConservatives.com

They’re blood red for a reason

You all know how I feel about diamonds, and cocoa beans from The Ivory Coast. Now thanks to Jeff at Have Coffee Will Write, I’ve become aware of another import that’s paid for in blood and human dignity.
Many of the rubies shipped to this country are mined in Myanmar, and the money [...]

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