True Facts About the Chameleon
The James Bond of the animal kingdom, the chameleon boasts Nature’s coolest spy toys, chief among them its rotating eyes and its sticky, darting tongue.
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Call Me Stormy
Finding righteous currents in turbulent times
Archive for the month “February, 2013”
Best Performance by a President
This just in…Daniel Day Lewis won the Oscar for his portrayal of the 16th president, Abraham Lincoln. “Hey, we thought the best acting by a president was when Obama said his proposals won’t raise the deficit,” says Jodi Miller. In this edition of NewsBusted, she also weighs in on California’s looming shortage of doctors, horse meat in the United Kingdom and a woman who is suing her university because she received a C-Plus.
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George Galloway’s Gall
If you need proof that Great Britain is no longer great, and might be circling the cesspool as a society in decline, look no further than George Galloway, the Leftist demagogue and bigot who keeps getting re-elected to Parliament no matter how outrageous his behavior or his pronouncements. The longtime mouthpiece for Yasser Arafat and sundry terrorist organizations including Hamas and Hezbollah, Galloway has now sunk even lower, storming out of a debate at Christ Church College at Oxford University after learning his opponent, student Eylon Aslan-Levy, was an Israeli citizen.
“I don’t debate with Israelis,” the stentorian Galloway bellowed. Aslan-Levy should have walked out first, saying he refused to debate bilge rats.
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Icarus
Anyone familiar with the art of sandpaintings will appreciate this 1996 animated short from Hungary. Géza M. Tóth, founder of the KEDD Animation Studio, paints in the sand at a seashore to retell the ancient myth of Icarus and his yearning to fly. The concept is brilliant, as well as the use of all the detritus that washes ashore — for instance, driftwood and seashells. Tóth is perhaps best known for his Oscar-nominated short Maestro, but Icarus is just as original and imaginative.
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By the Gods!
Need proof that the Oscars are rigged? Name any of these robust performers who ever took home the coveted statuette. Can’t do it. Well, there you have it! H/T PeplumZ
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Babes of Burlesque: 56
SHANGHAI PEARL
We’re nearing the home stretch in our countdown of the most talented and luscious babes of burlesque. Only four more dancers remain before we’ll be moving on and introducing a new series.
Today’s babe, Shanghai Pearl, bills herself as “The Tantalizing Temptress from Taipei” and also as “The Princess of Pulchritude.” Now a performer and instructor based out of Seattle, Shanghai Pearl is celebrated for her wild costumes and bawdy humor, as well as her sultry strip-teases. In a display of versatility, she designs all of her own costumes. Check out the mermaid suit in this compilation, although there’s nothing fishy about the rest of her opulent gear.
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We looked, but couldn’t find her full mermaid act online. But the performance she gave at the 2010 New Orleans Burlesque Festival is killer. She always seems to be enjoying herself enormously on stage.
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Teachers Targeted in Thailand
Running a daily school is a dangerous business in southern Thailand. More than 150 teachers have been slain in the region, where ethnic tensions often boil over into bloody violence. The threat has escalated in recent months, as Britain’s Channel 4 News reports.
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Loving Hayek
“I think economics is cool, I think it’s fun,” declares musician and video director Dorian Electra. “I think other people should think that too.”
Electra has been creating economics-themed music videos since her high school senior thesis spawned the YouTube hit “I’m in Love with Friedrich Hayek.” Her latest video, “Fa$t Ca$h”, seeks to explain the boom and busts created by the Federal Reserve’s quantitative easing program.
Reason TV‘s Nick Gillespie caught up with Electra at the 2013 International Students for Liberty Conference to discuss her love of Austrian economists, how she discovered libertarianism, and her recent music project, “Party Milk.”
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Source of Cosmic Rays Found
A new study using observations from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope reveals the first clear-cut evidence that the expanding debris of exploded stars produces some of the fastest-moving matter in the universe. This discovery is a major step toward meeting one of Fermi’s primary mission goals. H/T SpaceRip
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It’s Good to Be the King
Run by Democrats since the 1930s, Chicago is now the most violent and the most corrupt city in the United States. How can liberals point to Chicago as a model for what they’d like to see elsewhere in the country? They can’t, so they continue piling on the lies, stealing votes and perverting our democracy, while hoping no one’s paying enough attention to notice. But Joe Dan Gorman has got their number, and calls them on the carpet in this edition of Intellectual Frog Legs.
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