Daily Blend: Wednesday, May 05, 2010

It disturbs me how I can be both pleased and unsatisfied with my drawing skills. Who the hell can draw eyes or hands (known to be an artist’s nightmare) in a flash but needs a freaking guide to draw a nose or hair right? Urgh.

• The Pennsylvania Department of Revenue is going for a new angle to encourage citizens to pay their back taxes: the astonishingly creepy “Big Brother is Watching You” thing.
  (via The Agitator)

• Anyone wanna be the new owner of a third-rate newspaper? The Washington “Moonie” Times has officially gone under.
  (via Dispatches From the Culture Wars)

• I’m detecting a pattern, here.
  (via The Daily Grail)

• Being an “autie” myself, I don’t buy it. My (mild) Tourette’s may explain some of my talents, but it, along with all other variants in the spectrum of Autism, is a disability. Being unusually good at arts or mathematics or what have you is poor compensation for the lack of the ability to lead a normal life.
  (via The Daily Grail)

• The Vatican is taking action against a great evil! They have finally decided to investigate and potentially prosecute child-molesting prie— er, what? Oh, sorry – I meant, nuns engaging in “feminism and activism”. Well, so much for that.
  (via Pharyngula)

• Obama uses the epithet “teabaggers”. Teabaggers kvetch. Everyone else laughs. Teabaggers can go teabag themselves. (Although, of course, massive balls in patriotic mouths would just give them self-important pleasure.)
  (via @washingtonpost)

• <perpetually unimpressed critic mode>Needs a little work on his rhythm.</mode> <normal mode>Sweeeeet.</mode> (Check out his other videos, too.)
  (via friend Gene)

• In relation to a sorta-recent post on the subject of bad language and insults, I thought the Season 2 episode of Penn & Teller’s Bullshit! focusing on the war on profanity (parts 1, 2 & 3 respectively) was ripe for the posting. (And no, I am totally not posting this to spite the anti-profanity remarks of a certain regular commenter. Perish the thought.)

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