Don Giovanni – The Right Way

I stumbled upon this video of the final scene from Mozart’s brilliant opera, Don Giovanni.

What I like about this is the gratuitous use of women in bikinis.  That’s what I call opera!

Republican Teabagging Threesomes

From what I hear the Tea-bagging parties held this past April 15th were somewhat of a let-down.  Which is surprising because while I have never been to or seen a tea-bagging orgy party, I can’t imagine how they would fail to be at least more popular than they reportedly were. 

Jon Stewart’s take on teabagging.

Ok, so whomever decided that encouraging people to teabag Obama was a perfectly benign slogan – well, it may be compared to the conservatives next great campaign – 2m4m.

Hallelujah! Governor Sanford is Praying for us!

From Think Progress:

On C-SPAN’s Washington Journal this morning, Sanford [R. Gov of SC] received a call from a Charleston resident who said he lost his job because he has been taking care of mother and sister, both of whom have serious illnesses. The caller told Sanford he is “wrong” to decline the money. “A lot of people in South Carolina are hurting. And if this money can come and help us out we need it.” In response, Sanford could offer him only his prayers:

CALLER: I hope you all are not playing politics with this. People in South Carolina are hurting. You know how unemployment rates are high right now and going up higher. We are running out of money in the unemployment bank — we need money for that, the people that need help. And I’m one of them, I can’t get no help. […]

SANFORD: Well I’d say hello to Charleston because its home and I’d say hello to this fellow this morning and say that my prayers are going to be with him and his family because it sounds like he is in an awfully tough spot.

 

All I have to say is that I’m glad I live in a state where the Governor counts on more than prayers to solve problems.

 

ACORN, The Mouse, and Republican Asshats

Hi, I'm Mickey Mouse, and I'm here to vote!

 So the republicans are raising such a stink about this ACORN business – but what occurs to me is this:  having “mickey mouse” on a registration form doesn’t really matter unless he actually shows up to vote.  Here are some other opinions:

McCain/Palin ’08

These people convinced me that McCain is the only safe choice.

Enough said.

Sarah Palin Still Uses Hotmail

And other things that make her that guy.

http://palin.appspot.com/

US Cities Ranked

Here’s a list of US cites from best to worst most liberal to most conservative.  I live in 49.

America’s most liberal cities in 2005

1. Detroit, Michigan
2. Gary, Indiana
3. Berkeley, California
4. Washington, D.C.
5. Oakland, California
6. Inglewood, California
7. Newark, New Jersey
8. Cambridge, Massachusetts
9. San Francisco, California
10. Flint, Michigan
11. Cleveland, Ohio
12. Hartford, Connecticut
13. Paterson, New Jersey
14. Baltimore, Maryland
15. New Haven, Connecticut
16. Seattle, Washington
17. Chicago, Illinois
18. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
19. Birmingham, Alabama
20. St. Louis, Missouri
21. New York, New York
22. Providence, Rhode Island
23. Minneapolis, Minnesota
24. Boston, Massachusetts
25. Buffalo, New York
26. New Orleans, Louisiana
27. Ann Arbor, Michigan
28. Jersey City, New Jersey
29. Portland, Oregon
30. Daly City, California
31. Atlanta, Georgia
32. Dallas, Texas
33. Hayward, California
34. Madison, Wisconsin
35. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
36. St. Paul, Minnesota
37. Los Angeles, California
38. Rochester, New York
39. Memphis, Tennessee
40. Milwaukee, Wisconsin
41. Vallejo, California
42. Dayton, Ohio
43. Bridgeport, Connecticut
44. Springfield, Massachusetts
45. Syracuse, New York
46. Jackson, Mississippi
47. Jackson, Mississippi
48. Akron, Ohio
49. Denver, Colorado
50. Richmond, Virginia
51. El Monte, California
52. Pasadena, California
53. Toledo, Ohio
54. Eugene, Oregon
55. Elizabeth, New Jersey
56. Cincinnati, Ohio
57. Santa Rosa, California
58. Worcester, Massachusetts
59. Kansas City, Missouri
60. Kansas City, Kansas
61. Durham, North Carolina
62. Sunnyvale, California
63. Alexandria, Virginia
64. Fremont, California
65. Tallahassee, Florida
66. Pomona, California
67. Lansing, Michigan
68. Erie, Pennsylvania
69. Savannah, Georgia
70. Long Beach, California
71. Sacramento, California
72. Greensboro, North Carolina
73. Hollywood, Florida
74. San Jose, California
75. Norwalk, California
76. Lowell, Massachusetts
77. Aurora, Colorado
78. Columbus, Ohio
79. Concord, California
80. Norfolk, Virginia
81. Salinas, California
82. Columbia, South Carolina
83. South Bend, Indiana
84. North Las Vegas, Nevada
85. Oxnard, California
86. Fort Lauderdale, Florida
87. Portsmouth, Virginia
88. Raleigh, North Carolina
89. Pembroke Pines, Florida
90. Burbank, California
91. Glendale, California
92. Stamford, Connecticut
93. Austin, Texas
94. Virginia Beach, Virginia
95. Salt Lake City, Utah
96. Tacoma, Washington
97. Des Moines, Iowa
98. Athens, Georgia
99. Bellevue, Washington
100. Hampton, Virginia

Brad Pitt Fighting Gay Marriage Ban

From the Huffington Post:

LOS ANGELES — Brad Pitt has donated $100,000 to fight California’s November ballot initiative that would overturn the state Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage.

Bravo Brad.  Bravo. 

I find it odd and disturbing that other than Ellen, Brad Pitt, and myself, there aren’t many celebrities that are open about their support for gay marriage.

Bill Maher – Religulous

Here’s a trailer for the upcoming Bill Maher documentary about religion.

TED Talks – James Howard Kunstler – The Tragedy of Suburbi

James Howard Kunstler attacks design and city planning in America.

TED Talks – Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?

I was sure I had blogged about this, but couldn’t find it . . . so here we go.

Sir Ken Robinson gives a short and entertaining talk about how schools kill creativity, why they do it, and why that’s a problem.

Bloating and Gay Marriage

I saw this on the front page of the Huffington Post today, and found it amusing:

Unfortunatly it is two seperate articles – so if you wanted to know what gay marriage has to say about reducing bloating, you’ll have to look somewhere else.

 

Violence in Art

In honor of Hillary Clinton and Joe Lieberman who after the Columbine incident decided that violence exists and art exists but never the two shall meet; I give you Who Killed Bambi?which is a neat blog that explores violence in art (which is ultimately the only place violence belongs).

 

And definitely not to miss, this short claymation by Suzie Templeton called “Dog”:

 

Lost Tribe Found

The BBC is reporting that a tribe of peoples with no contact with the outside world have been discovered in Brazil.  Some amazing pictures here.

The huff’s article inspired some interesting comments from readers:

They weren’t lost until we found them.
Now they’re so screwed.

And, what’s on everyon’s mind:

I wonder if they’ve accepted Jesus as their Lord and Savior yet?

UPDATE 6/24/08:

Evidently this story is only half true – the tribe has been known since 1910 (although isolated).  The photographer came clean and told authorities he wanted to draw attention to the dangers of logging.  Read the story here.

Believing In God

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