Tiki tiki tiki party

Went to the Dizzney store this weekend to check out the new summer party set.

Ended up buying, er, kind of a lot.....



Wowsers. Besides the Stitchie plate and cup, we also got party platters and pitchers and even a cocktail shaker. (The tiki guys look like they've been lifted from Finding Nemo.)

( tiki )

Hoo-HAH!

71 degrees out there today!



Do the happy tiki dance!!

Suckers!

Buddy Boneboy had been carrying around this special present for us (yes, our friends carry action figures around in their pockets--so what??) for some weeks, and thus had brainmelted on the exact origin of said tentacly character. "Um, I think he's supposed to be a Power Ranger?" Hmmm, we seemed to have missed the Super Sentai Calimariranger episodes. But, he's pretty darned cool nonetheless.

The Marching Morons

There are reasons why we loves PZ Myers (all that squiddy goodness).

And then there are reasons why we loves us some PZ Myers.

I detest "The Marching Morons."

Bova gives an accurate summary; it's also the primary plot point of the movie Idiocracy. It's also the premise behind eugenics and behind a lot of right-wing phony elitism. It's wrong. It was a very popular story, but the reason isn't complimentary: it fed into a strain of self-serving smugness in science-fiction fandom, the idea that people who read SF are special and brilliant and superior, we are the technological geniuses and far-seeing futurists, while the mundanes leech off our vision. The eugenics movement built on the same us-vs.-them mentality, that there are superiors and inferiors, and the inferiors breed like cockroaches.

The most troubling part of it all is the attempt to root the distinction in biology—it's intrinsic. "They" are lesser beings than "us" because, while their gonads work marvelously well, their brains are inherently less capacious and their children are born with less ability. It's the kind of unwarranted labeling of people that leads to decisions like "three generations of imbeciles are enough"—bigotry built on bad biology to justify suppression by class.

People, they are us.

Listen to the Squidfather!

( more babbling )

It's a drag

Your daily Yahoo Japan weirdness: Stitch as....Angel.

Grrrrrr....

Obviously, the Yahoo Japan Gods are well pleased with us today.

(Looks like there's a winky one too--O joy!)

Mitt Romney is no monkey boy!

Remember this?



Brownback, Tancredo, and Huckabee going on record for The Ages during the MSNBC Republican debate as not believing in The Eeeeeevolution.

But, you ask, what of the Mormon dude?

Mitt Romney's Campaign on Evolution

Kevin Madden, Mitt Romney's spokesman has responded to The Brody File question on whether Mitt Romney believes in Evolution. I wanted to know his thoughts about it because at the debate the other night only three candidates raised their hand expressing doubt about Evolution. Romney was not one of those candidates. Here's the Romney campaign response:

"Governor Romney believes both science and faith can help inform us about the origins of life in this world."

With all due respect, what does that mean exactly?

Obviously, Mitt is not yet sure whether he can win the nomination without the very, very important first cousins who marry bloc.