Colbert Attacks...Colbert!

And kicks America's broken political world right in the nuts one more time.

And he gets a little help from Samuel Jackson.

 

Our Bacterial DNA

The endosymbiotic theory of the bacterial origin of mitochondria is blowing my mind right now.

Are we simply hosts for a very, very sneaky bacteria going through an eon-dodgingly successful series of life stages? As meaningful as a virus-infected cricket that will be left to drown in a bird dish as the virus carries on to another cricket that comes for a drink?

"We are Devo" means so much more to me now.

Second Son Dies in Afghanistan

Good god. The first line says all your stomach needs to hear.

The war in Afghanistan has claimed the lives of two sons of an Arkansas couple who also have a third son in the military.

10 years and 3 months of war in Afghanistan. And no end in sight.

"I Never Intended to Become an Antarctic Researcher"

Cools post from a brand new blog to me - BioBlog.

And because I just found this, too, here's another site - BrainPickings.

Pamela Anderson-Anderson...

Because why not?

Jay-Z Will No Longer Call Women "Bitches"

In honor of this heroic stand by the 80-year-old hip-hopper, I, as an old folksinger, will no longer refer to traveling, or the living of a kind of restless, untethered life on the road, as "ramblin'." It's just been long enough, you know? I always felt so dirty when I said it.

Boy, do I feel better.

Oh My God Stephen Colbert

This is becoming the "Stephen Colbert is God Blog" - hey, there's an idea - but where was I? Oh yeah: Oh my God, Stephen Colbert.

FOR LICKETY-SPLIT RELEASE

TELEVISION, USA – The Definitely Not Coordinating With Stephen Colbert Super PAC released a new television commercial today in South Carolina, in advance of the upcoming underfunded GOP Primary. The ad, entitled "Not Abel," shows support for Stephen Colbert's possible candidacy by offering voters a way to show support for Stephen Colbert's possible candidacy.

Oh man. Oh man. The ad:



The "Plus: the economy" graphics - oh man. Every millisecond of this ad - right up to the very, very end - is funnier than anything that ever happened anywhere. Ever. Good god. We are a lucky country right now.

Stephen Colbert is Going to Kick America's Ass

...until they have to put a complete media blackout on him.

This is just so deadly, so powerful, so freaking perfect, that a political system so far up its own ass can not survive anywhere near it. This is sunlight to E. coli.

 

 More Colbert here.

Fish-Eating Bats

I've just finished a short article on bats which was too damn fun to research. Fish-eating bats? Why didn't I ever know there were bats that captured fish? Unbelievable.

 

Cloacal Popping in Snakes

I'm reading the abstract of an in-depth study of the ability of two snake species to take part in what is known as cloacal-popping - that is, snake farting - to ward of predators. Did I mention I'm pretty happy with my job?

 Cloacal popping.

Animation and Song: Mexican Standoff

Old friend Chess sent this to me. Wow.