As a miserable student of Spanish – I totally appreciate these Portuguese kids trying to make a video for their English class. But I am still gonna laugh my ass off at their mistakes.

Please read this article about cuteness in Japan. Please don’t throw up when it comes to the part about “maid cafes”. No wonder the their right-wing wants to crack down! Cute

Just 2 words- Robot Chicken.

Alright kids- this is old school (even dirty old men like DeeK have a chance with this one).
One hint- he’s your lover, he’s your daddy. But that’s in another song.

You know the deal- name the song and the artist and win the giant virtual cookie. Googling is cheating.

The aim of his role
Was to move a lot of blow
Ask him his dream
What does it mean?
He woudn’t know
“Can’t be like the rest”
Is the most he’ll confess
But the time’s running out
And there’s no happiness

****Disclaimer- the cookie being an oreo this week has no cultural significance. I was just tired of smiley face cookies and there are not that many interesting cookie pics on google images*****

I am not a fan of most reality shows. I have never watched American Idol, or Survivor, or Dancing with the B-List Stars. However, the Kid has got me hooked on So You Think You Can Dance. The Kid thinks he can dance. He’s still at that gawky phase where he looks more like he’s being electrocuted and not moved by the music, most guys never get past that point.

So for Fursday Funnies I give you a mash up of bad dancing from So You Think You Can Dance.

I got this in my inbox today. How about we do all we can to keep this soldier from being dehumanized in a war based on lies.

Try the link in the title since the pic isn’t working.

I was going to write about how war dehumanizes the warriors as well as the victims. We’ve seen it with the photos of Abu Ghraib, the massacre at Haditha, the treatment of the Guantanamo suicides as a “publicity stunt” and now the idiotic video of a Marine singing “Hadji girl” about murdering an Iraqi family for fun.

So while I started to write this I went searching for quotes from Frederick Douglass about how slavery dehumanized white slave owners as well as slaves. I got sucked into reading A Narrative on the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass. And now I would rather read that than write something that is going to break my heart and disgust me about man’s inhumanity to man. I know, I’m just going to read about it instead of writing about. But Frederick Douglass gives me hope. He had every reason to hate. Instead he fought injustice where ever he saw it, against blacks, against women, even against Catholics in Ireland.
I’m going to read this and see if I can arm myself with whatever it was Douglass used to keep himself from dehumanizing other people.

No, I’m not dead, nor can I reach into the nether realms and blog from there (a new blog in the making, I’m sure). No,I’m talking about those other humans, Republicans.
Here is what they think it will take to stay in control of Congress (from the Washington Post).

Okay, nothing earth shattering, but it adds information to our regular discussion about the upcoming election and returns us again to the role of the centrist voter. Please form your opinion. (Omigod, think for myself. Isnt’ there someone on television who can do that for me?!).

Or at least ones who were blessed with non-wrinkly skin. I look exactly like Wonder’s mom, my aunt. So I have a good idea what I’ll look like 20 years from now and the news is good on both the wrinkle and the smoking front (she’s got amazing wrinkle free skin and every time I see her I think ‘damn I got the good genes’):

Middle-aged smokers with heavily lined faces have a five times higher risk of lung disease than their un-wrinkled peers, a study has suggested.

After age and the number of years someone had smoked were taken into account, smokers with lined faces were five times more likely to have COPD.

Facial wrinkling was also associated with triple the risk of more severe emphysema.