Barking Rabbits

Sunday, November 04, 2007

Doesn't Natalie Portman look strikingly like Audrey Hepburn?

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Natalie Audrey
Saturday, November 03, 2007

Train wreck at Montparnasse, France in 1895

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The engineer, to his horror, found out that he had no brakes while approaching the station in Montparnasse and could not stop in time. The ...

It’s not a chupacabra. I must say I am disappointed.

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From Yahoo News . SAN MARCOS, Texas - The results are in: The ugly, big-eared animal found this summer in Cuero is not the mythical bloodsuc...
Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Petra

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Petra is an archaeological site in Jordan famous for having many stone structures carved into the rock. One of Petra's most magnificent ...
Tuesday, October 30, 2007

And you thought you had a crappy commute; Bolivia's Road of Death.

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Stremnaya road, situated in Bolivia, is called the Road of Death, for some pretty obvious reasons. I have heard that approximately 150 PEOP...
Monday, October 29, 2007

Well, yes, actually, it IS art.

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"Tim Nobel and Sue Webster take piles of trash and make art into them... but sometimes the art isn't apparent until you see it in a...
Friday, October 26, 2007

Setting standards for propaganda the Soviet Union would be proud of.

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This is from Christy at Firedoglake , talking about a “press conference” by Bush administration officials regarding the fires in Southern Ca...
Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Jupiter and Io

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Pretty damn amazing photo.
Saturday, October 20, 2007

Are you ABSOLUTELY certain that's the runway?

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The dark soul of the extreme right.

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The amount of anger and hatred coming from conservatives these days is truly frightening. Digby, who normally posts at Hullabaloo, has a gr...
Sunday, October 14, 2007

The “Good Germans” among us.

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Frank Rich, as usual, has a spot-on commentary in today’s NYTimes . What is going on with our country that we are actively turning our coll...
Friday, October 12, 2007

Shorter Tom Tancredo: “Anyone who disagrees with me should be kicked out of America.”

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Representative Tom Tacredo (R – Colo) on his plan to put up a fence on the entire U.S.-Mexico border, and the fact that many of the towns al...
Friday, October 05, 2007

Oh my God. Someone please tell me this one isn’t what it sounds like.

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Via Crooks and Liars : Ciara Durkin was home on leave last month and expressed a concern to her family in Quincy: If something happens to me...

Flying with commercial U.S. carriers has become a nightmare.

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This is not exactly news. Every day, if we were to look long enough, there are stories in the press about how terrible things have become. ...

Boy, the world sure would fall apart if liberals ran the U.S.

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So says one John Hawkins. Via Mahablog : If the left were able to totally dominate American politics starting tomorrow, all 50 governors, e...
Tuesday, October 02, 2007

It looks as if U.S. action against Iran is more and more likely, every day.

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This is such insanity. Here are some snippets from Sy Hersh in the New Yorker . In a series of public statements in recent months, Presiden...
Monday, October 01, 2007

“Monsters, John. Monsters from the Id!”

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Warning: Contains spoilers for those few of you who that haven’t seen “Forbidden Planet” but would still like to one of these days without ...
Sunday, September 30, 2007

Rudolph Giuliani, the Pavlov's Dog of candidates.

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Get asked an embarrassing question, blurt out something to do with 9/11. All the time. Lather, rinse, repeat. 9/11. 9/11. This is from ...
Saturday, September 29, 2007

“Liberal Press”, indeed.

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O.K., a congresswoman who was on Dan Abrams’ show on MSNBC brought some pressure on the network and ultimately made Dan apologize for askin...
Friday, September 28, 2007

Important things that have happened and then vanished from public consciousness.

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Invasion of Iraq on false pretenses. Major bridge in Minneapolis collapses. Neglect of American military veterans at Walter Reed hospital. V...

More stuff from Salon.com

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This time about Dan Rather’s suit against CBS and how CBS tried to squelch the entire story about Bush not serving his time in the Texas Air...
Wednesday, September 26, 2007

The Wit and Wisdom of The Manchurian Candidate, as applied to the administration of George W. Bush.

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Thanks, IMDB. Marco: Intelligence officer. Stupidity officer is more like it. Pentagon wants to open a Stupidity Division, they know who the...

Here it is, my long-awaited, fer-real endorsements for presidential nominees, for both parties.

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Knowing that this might well tip the balance-of-powers-that-be, I wanted to put sincere and thorough consideration into this. Like, during ...
Tuesday, September 25, 2007

THIS PHOTO HAS BEEN FAKED BY PRO-WAR CONSERVATIVES!!

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I originally wasn’t going to post this fake picture, I found it so disgusting. However, I decided that it is an attention getter, if anyone...

I’ve been reading Sidney Blumenthal at Salon.com

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We are SOOOOO screwed..... (The clickthrough will take you to a short advertisement, then you get a site pass to Salon for an entire day. I...
Sunday, September 23, 2007

Republicans will try anything to win.

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They know they have very, very little chance of winning the next presidental election, as things stand now. So, they are going to try to ga...

marcel marceau has passed away

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I suppose, in his honor, I won't say anything.
Saturday, September 22, 2007

The major hurdle facing the industrialized world in the next thirty years.

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The major challenge, if not an outright hazard, to the industrialized nations of the world in the next thirty years is not going to be globa...

More of that “unintended results” stuff, this time in our favor.

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This is from T Rex at FireDogLake . Dear MoveOn member, Yesterday, an amazing thing happened. After the Senate’s shameful vote, and after Pr...
Friday, September 21, 2007

We do live in a Kafka-esque world.

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The Senate just voted, twice, to condemn the ad from MoveOn.org, which played a bad pun on a name, calling General Petraeus, “General Be-tra...
Monday, September 17, 2007

Imaginary conversations with my very conservative brother.

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I always have imaginary arguments with people, usually ones that I am very upset with at that time. I always allow myself the maximum of ri...
Sunday, September 16, 2007

Speaking of "West Side Story" and zombies.....

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x25jVzVP1bY Sorry, I don't have the ability to embed a You Tube at my blog with my computer. Every time ...

Here’s a metaphor that I hadn’t thought of before.

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Jane Smiley, at HuffPo: The Republican Party now seems to work like a gang, in which the most valued qualities in members are loyalty to the...

More of the same: Attack anyone who disagrees with the Republican party.

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This is apparently true, even if the person happens to be a soldier in the U.S. Army, and was just killed in Iraq. That has absolutely no b...
Saturday, September 15, 2007

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I did something incredibly lame and stupid the other day. I am not happy with myself, and am having a hard time gathering up the self right...
Friday, September 14, 2007

Looks like Bush is getting hammered in the press.

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After his speech last night, he deserves it. Now, I will admit that I didn't watch Bush. I never do. I have a hard time controlling m...
Wednesday, September 12, 2007

What was that about the “liberal media” again?

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Media Matters for America did a rather comprehensive study about the columnists carried by the nation’s newspapers. Here is what they found...
Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Oh my God! Manos: Hands of Fate as a rock opera!

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For all the Misties out there.

I feel compelled to write something.

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My blogging these days has been slowed by several factors, including an increase of actual “work” to do while at work, a 12 year old who lik...
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