Huffington and puffington

I've been reading the Huffington Post lately, mainly for it's coverage of election related stuff. But I also came across this interesting article refuting the "end of days" and "America is a declining empire" argument. Foster may feel the need to point out that the writing is somewhat left-biased, to which the obvious response is "no shit".

Palin and fruit flies

Apart from a special issue in Nature, the stance of the McCain and Obama camps on science have gained relatively little air time. This is fairly disappointing, given just how broad "science" is. Global warming anyone?
However, Sarah Palin has managed to change this with her monumentally stupid comments about "fruit fly research in Paris". It would be unfair to expect a career politician to fully understand the technical aspects of modeling human disease in simpler organisms, but surely someone could explain the concept? I doubt that I can explain the issue better than Adam Rutherford of the Guardian, or even the unashamedly liberal Huffington Post writers. Words cannot describe how angry I am that it is even possible for such an ignorant fool to be anywhere near becoming the most powerful woman in the world - and we haven't even started talking about her views on climate change...

Retard jokes

What's better than winning a gold medal at the Paralympics? Not being retarded. Having set the tone of this post to "offensive", I present this beauty.

While on the subject of retards, Stu is selling a peg on Ebay. Get in quick.

The World's Second Most Inane Blog

As I was considering writing a post about how I got bitten by a tick last week, I realised that I blog about some ridiculously inane shit. I'm not the only one - the blogosphere is chock full of some seriously dull motherfuckers. Try clicking on the "next blog" tab in the top left for reassurance that you actually live a pretty exciting life. Anyway, this revelation led me to search for "most inane blog post" and "most banal blog post" on google. As such, I give you "The World's Most Inane Blog" (which actually isn't that bad) and an article about the "most banal blog ever". Now, about that tick bite...

Roy Ayers

Roy Ayers @ The Forum, Moore Park - 24th October, 2008
Originally uploaded by 'ju:femaiz

Last night I saw Roy Ayers play at The Forum. A bona fide legend of the funk, soul and jazz world, Ayers also happens to be almost 70. I've seen a few other legendary musicians who trade more on their status and past glories than their current ability (Lee Scratch Perry springs to mind), but Ayers was an absolute joy to watch, backed by an astoundingly talented group of musicians.
Joel was shooting the night, no doubt more photos will go up on his photostream in due course (photo to the right is his, I have no idea why the attribution is not showing up properly).

The More kJ Diet

I've been feeling a little bit rubbish since about last December, coinciding almost exactly with the time that I snapped my collarbone like a twig. It hasn't been anything too major, just a little bit of listlessness and a feeling of weakness when I exert myself. So I went and got a blood test a week or so ago, and the news was not good. Nothing is wrong. At all. This is not particularly helpful - I don't want to hear that I'm healthy and everything is within normal ranges, I want answers. So the doctor basically shrugged his shoulders and went "I dunno. Good luck with that."
So in order to deal with the situation I have formulated what I call the "More kJ Diet", which basically entails me eating more food. Some may call this simplistic, but I would call it elegant. More importantly, what it lacks in complexity, it appears to be making up for by actually working. If you wish to try the More kJ Diet I suggest learning the following phrases: "Are you going to finish that?", "Is there any more?", "Where the fuck did you asshats hide the bread?" and most importantly "Om nom nom nom".

On that note, I think I'll have a snack.

McCain in Rolling Stone

In my tireless quest to scour the internet for the tastiest morsels and most delectable pieces of high culture I found a piece on Citizen McCain that was published in Rolling Stone. OK, I found it on a bouldering forum. Fuck you, read it anyway.

Make-believe Maverick

Scary shit, yo.

You can also find some solid gold ranting in Mad Dog Palin.

VP Debate

So the much anticipated Palin vs Biden debate didn't end up being a gaffe-fest. Bummer. The consensus seems to be that Palin succeeded in not failing, while Biden managed not to appear too condescending. Here's an interesting youtube video comparing how the two VP candidates dealt with exactly the same question in an interview:



Fairly conclusive really. Regardless of her politics, she really shouldn't be out in a position of power. Hopefully the people who actually get to vote on it see this.