What would it look like if we took Earth’s 4.5 billion year history, and stuffed it into a normal day’s 24 hour time-frame? Follow the magnificent journey of life; where it began, and how it eventually led to humanity as we know it. H/T ASAPscience
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Pundit Dick Morris says Republicans shouldn’t feel glum. President Obama’s economic policies will doom him to failure, meaning our victory — over time!
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Shin Dong-hyuk was born inside Kaechon #14, one of the world’s harshest labor camps. His parents were political prisoners, declared enemies of the state for having committed minor offenses against the North Korean regime. Shin was routinely subjected to torture and knew nothing of the outside world until his escape at the age of 23.
Today, he is on a mission to tell the world his story. And to remind us of the estimated 200,000 other forced laborers currently languishing under the regime of Kim Jong-un. H/T Reason.TV
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Tonight we bring you a vintage cartoon — a 1946 short starring Herman the mouse. A few years later, Herman would be paired with Katnip the cat as Paramount Pictures’ clones to MGM’s Tom and Jerry. But here, we see Herman on a solo quest to stave off his hunger and score some cheese. To succeed, he’ll need to maneuver around a dog and a cat that are guarding the refrigerator. Herman decides his best approach is a strong offense, and sets out to ignite a feud between the cat and dog. All around, Paramount’s cartoons paled alongside its competitors, but this is one of the studio’s more clever and creative efforts.
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Everyone’s heard the expression “Look what the cat dragged in.” But what if the cat gets dragged in — by the dog?
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Brigid Bazlen as Salome gets King Herod’s juices flowing in the 1961 Biblical epic King of Kings, demanding in return that Herod deliver as a reward the head of John the Baptist on a silver platter. Seventeen at the time this picture was made, Bazlen signed an exclusive contract with MGM, but appeared in only two other movies for the studio — The Honeymoon Machine and How the West Was Won.
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By way of comparison, here’s Rita Hayworth as Salome performing the Dance of the Seven Veils for Charles Laughton’s King Herod in the 1953 version of Salome.
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Alleged eco-terrorist Rebecca Jeanette Rubin has surrendered to authorities at the US-Canada border after a decade on the run. The Canadian-born Rubin played a central role in what authorities have called the largest eco-terrorism case in US history, involving 20 acts of arson committed over a five-year period in several Western states.
Fugitive Rubin surrenders at Blaine, Washington
Operating out of Eugene, Oregon, Rubin and 12 other co-conspirators, calling themselves “The Family,” used firebombs to attack a ski resort in Vail, Colo., an Oregon SUV dealership and federal wild horse corrals in Oregon and California. All, told the destructive spree from 1996 through 2001 caused an estimated $40 million in damages.
Members of The Family — all linked to the Animal Liberation Front and the Earth Liberation Front — took an oath of secrecy, vowing never to disclose each other’s participation in the destructive crime spree. However, a federal task force known as Operation Backfire turned an informant in 2005, breaking the secret cell and leading to the capture of its leader, William C. Rodgers, then running a book store in Prescott, Ariz. A Svengali-like guru and sexual predator who called himself Avalon, Rodgers committed suicide in jail following his arrest.
Rubin, 39, was one of the last remaining fugitive holdouts from The Family. A wildlife researcher, she will be sent back to Eugene, Oregon, for trial on conspiracy and arson indictments. Two fugitives remain: Joseph Mahmoud Dibee and Josephine Sunshine Overaker. Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen Peifer said Dibee is believed to be in Syria, where he has family, and Overaker is believed to be in Europe.
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Nancy Pelosi illustrates her mastery of the Constitution — not! — in this edition of The Week in Blogs. Plus Stephen Green introduces a naked man on a horse, an Alec Baldwin stalker, a Twitter war and a very scary, scary chart. H/T PJTV
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Hank Green of SciShow is all about Mars, and Elon Musk, the Paypal multi-millionaire who founded SpaceX, has some plans for colonizing the Red Planet that have got Hank very excited.
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Meanwhile, NASA is throwing cold water on growing speculation about a possible discovery of life — or signs of life — on Mars.
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Judas sold out Jesus for 30 pieces of silver. “Jamie Foxx sold out Jesus for 30 seconds of sacrilege.” So says Alfonzo Rachel in his latest ZoNation, touching upon what it will take for Republicans to begin to win the cultural wars and appeal to black voters.
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