Calling me stupid is an insult to stupid people.

blackenedbutterfly: ilovecharts: via Kurt White Mzungu is the...

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:57:02 -0700

ilovecharts:

via Kurt White

Mzungu is the Swahili word for “Person of European Descent.” I could not find the source of this chart. Does anybody know?

This is interesting.

Fidel Castro takes blame for 1960s gay persecution | Reuters

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:25:30 -0700

Fidel Castro takes blame for 1960s gay persecution | Reuters:

(Reuters) - Fidel Castro took the blame for a wave of homophobia launched by his revolutionary government in the 1960s, but said it happened because he was distracted by other problems, in an interview published on Tuesday in a Mexican newspaper…

Official persecution of gays continued into the 1970s before homosexual acts were decriminalized in 1979. Today, Cuba’s medical service provides free sex-change operations.

spacegod: Body surfing. (via bahalanasibatman)

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:14:14 -0700

spacegod:

Body surfing.

(via bahalanasibatman)

Rachel Sussman shows photographs of the world’s oldest...

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:55:00 -0700

Rachel Sussman shows photographs of the world’s oldest continuously living organisms — from 2,000-year-old brain coral off Tobago’s coast to an “underground forest” in South Africa that has lived since before the dawn of agriculture.

blackenedbutterfly: okdad: girlofthe21stcentury: (via...

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:22:28 -0700

blackenedbutterfly:

okdad:

girlofthe21stcentury:

(via dyslxeia, arielrebelshauntedgrafenbergspot)

wat

Looks shopped.

He Can Bomb Me Any Time - This is Photobomb

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 20:34:20 -0700

He Can Bomb Me Any Time - This is Photobomb

Hey Guys, This is Gonna be a Cool Ride - This is Photobomb

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 20:32:05 -0700

Hey Guys, This is Gonna be a Cool Ride - This is Photobomb

Yoko Ono Climaxes for Art

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 20:03:15 -0700

Yoko Ono Climaxes for Art

I’ve never heard of it before. Has this been around for a...

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:59:09 -0700

I’ve never heard of it before. Has this been around for a while?

Erzulie Dantor by stardust on Etsy

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:53:32 -0700

Erzulie Dantor by stardust on Etsy

Taiji Dolphin Season Opens

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:13:45 -0700

Taiji Dolphin Season Opens:

The small Japanese town of Taiji made infamous in The Cove began its annual dolphin hunt today. Filmmaker and dolphin advocate Ric O’Barry won’t be there, though, because he’s been threatened by Japanese nationalist groups. So instead, Barry’s staying in Tokyo. Today he staged a protest at a Tokyo hotel and delivered a 1.7 million signature petition to end the hunt to the US Embassy. Not to be outdone, Sea Shepherd is calling for any dolphin supporters to go immediately to Taiji: otherwise, the organization says, activists aren’t doing enough. But is Taiji really the right place to go? The town of 3,400 in Wakayama prefecture kills around 2,000 dolphins a year. Iwate prefecture up north kills approximately five times as many dolphins as Taiji.

For all O’Barry and Sea Shepherd’s work, the dolphin hunt (and whaling) isn’t likely to end soon, the Taiji mayortold the AP. “We will pass down the history of our ancestors to the next generation, preserve it. We have a strong sense of pride about this,” mayor Kazutaka Sangen said. Speaking of history, activists have been so (understandably) blindsided by the cruelty and atrociousness of dolphin and whale slaughter that they’ve forgotten it was only after WWII that Japanese consumption of whale and dolphin meat increased. Gen. Douglas MacArthur was the one who helped Japan set up whaling fleets so Japan could feed people who were facing starvation during the American occupation. It’s no surprise that more than a million people around the world want the brutal Taiji dolphin hunt to stop. Who wouldn’t? But Japan is a society that highly values respect, tact, and diplomacy. I can’t say that I’m sure American activists will get what they want by using their highly public, confrontational tactics.

Photo

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:09:17 -0700

All I see is a deer, trees and a lot of leaves - Roger...

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:00:00 -0700

All I see is a deer, trees and a lot of leaves - Roger Ebert’s Journal

I couldn’t see it either at first, but there is a face in the totality of the of leaves and sky above the deer’s head.

“Rest In Vinyl” Olivia Solon profiles a new trend...

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:52:00 -0700

“Rest In Vinyl”

Olivia Solon profiles a new trend in the vinyl craze. You can now have your ashes pressed into a record of your choosing.

Didn’t even have to think which album I’d want to be: The Cure - Disintigration

Attendees of The Venice Film Festival were allegedly shocked by...

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:35:30 -0700

Attendees of The Venice Film Festival were allegedly shocked by the content of the opening film, Black Swan, which features scenes of lesbian sex, drug taking, and self-harming.

The Guardian reported that the sex scene between stars Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis elicited quite a response from the festival, which began earlier this week. The movie, directed by Darren Aronofsky, is about the highly-competitive world of ballet.
Click here for the full story.

"There are few things I never could believe: A woman when she weeps A merchant when he swears A..."

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 11:52:00 -0700

“

There are few things
I never could believe:

A woman when she weeps
A merchant when he swears
A thief who says he’ll pay
A lawyer when he cares
A snake when he is sleeping
A drunkard when he prays
I don’t believe you go to heaven
When you’re good
Everything goes to hell, anyway…

”

- TOM WAITS lyrics - Everything Goes To Hell

thedailywhat: Follow Up of the Day: Good news: The...

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 11:34:42 -0700

thedailywhat:

Follow Up of the Day: Good news: The puppy-tossing teenager whose abhorrent antics were captured on film and uploaded to the Internet has been backtraced by Bosnian authorities. Better News: Five of the six puppies thrown into the Vrbas river were rescued by Grandma Rose Pavlović and are now up for adoption.

[thanks lowrider!]

blackenedbutterfly: Then I’d rather be on Satan’s side. And...

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 11:33:17 -0700

blackenedbutterfly:

Then I’d rather be on Satan’s side.

And god’s brainwashed sheep aren’t slaves at all, right?

Diving in - The Big Picture - Boston.com An unidentified athlete...

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 11:23:53 -0700

Diving in - The Big Picture - Boston.com

An unidentified athlete dives from the 27 meter platform into the cenote or sinkhole during training in the lead up round 2 of the 2010 Red Bull Cliff Diving world series, Saturday June 5 2010 at the Cenote Ik Kil, near Chichen Itza in the Yucatan peninsula, Mexico on June 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Vincent Curutchet, DPPI) #

Diving in - The Big Picture - Boston.com A boy dives into the...

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 11:22:16 -0700

Diving in - The Big Picture - Boston.com

A boy dives into the Dambovita river to cool off in Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010. (AP Photo) #