Silliness...



...although I am particularly proud of the resemblance to Don Adams.

THIS is why I hate capital punishment.

Methods of execution have varied over time, and include:

• Asphyxiation (or strangulation), such as by Garrotte
• Blood eagle (possibly a myth)
• Boiling to death
• Burning, especially for religious heretics and witches on the stake
• Brazen bull
• Breaking on the Wheel
• Burial (alive, also known as the pit)
• Crucifixion
• Crushing by a weight, abruptly or as a slow ordeal - see also animals
• Death by a thousand cuts
• Death by Rugging
• Decapitation, or beheading (as by sword, axe or guillotine)
• Disembowelment
• Dismemberment
• Disruption (a form of dismemberment)
• Drawing and quartering (Considered by many to be the most "cruel" of punishments)
• Drowning
• Electrocution, as by electric chair
• Explosives
• Exsanguination
• Flaying = skinning
• Forced suicide, such as the poisoned cup
• Fustuarium - see also for not always lethal successors
• Gassing
• Hanging
• Impalement
• Iron Maiden
• Keelhauling (not always lethal) and walking the plank (if not mythical)
• Pressing (also used for witches)
• Poisoning, as by Lethal injection - see also forced suicide
• Sawing
• Scaphism and similar methods mentioned there
• Shooting can be performed either
  • by Firing squad
  • by a single shooter (such as the neck shot, often performed on a kneeling prisoner, as in present PR China in significant numbers)
  • (especially collectively) by cannon or machine gun
• Starvation and Dehydration
• Stoning = lapidation
• Strangling with silk robe = Ottoman style capital punishment for royal family members (whose blood must not be shed)
• Various animal-related methods
  • Tearing apart by horses, e.g. Ancient China (using five horses) or "quartering," with four horses, and in The Song of Roland
  • Attack/devouring by animals, such as dogs or wolves, as in Ancient Rome and the biblical lion's den, by rodents (such as rats), by carnivorous fish (such as sharks), by crabs or by insects (such as ants)
  • poisonous bites from scorpions, snakes, spiders etcetera
  • Crushing by elephant or trampling by a herd or by horsemen, as practices by the Mongolian hordes

Why YES, there most certainly IS a Punk Rock version of Big Rock Candy Mountain, thank you very much.

NOW FUCK OFF!

Pretty compelling evidence is surfacing regarding the use of chemical weapons by U.S. troops in Iraq.

I can't wait to see the reaction of the right wing nut jobs.

They are gonna be arguing that it wasn't REALLY a chemical weapon.

It's gonna be exactly like their argument that we don't REALLY torture.

Who'd have thought that we'd come to this?

Last odd hick post I promise.

Holy moley.

Video and audio from the 1800's.

Big Rock Candy Mountain

Great song.

"...All the birds and the bees and the cigarette trees..."

"...In the Big Rock Candy Mountains you'll never change yer socks,
And the little streams of alcohol come a-tricklin' down the rocks"

"...I'm-a goin' to stay where ya sleep all day,
Where they hung the jerk who invented work..."

Ethereally sung by Burl "This is the story of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" Ives.

More Burl Ives.

And this version is just odd.

And here is a link just for fun/weirdness.

Incidentally, the Tender Crisp Bacon Cheddar Ranch commercial in the aforementioned post was directed by David LaChapelle.

It's fitting, 'cause he seems to have a hot bod/food fetish.

He also likes pink.

Really.

Seriously.

A LOT.

Um... yeah.

He DID make a movie about "krumping," and he DID go to jail the same night it showed at Sundance.

Here's a killer headline:

"Sundance 2005: David LaChapelle Goes to Jail, Still Sells Film"

And what the hell is krumping?!?!

Krump it up, YO!!!!

OK, OK, OK...

I admit I've been a bit prudish of late in regards to the time spent behind the ol' BLOG so I thought I'd give y'all a bit of a treat:

Here it is...

"All" the best sites out there...

Penny Arcade!
Crooks and Liars
Over/Spun
NEISTAT BROTHERS
VHEMT
BBC Motion Gallery - Home Page
Abandonia.com - Home of abandonware DOS games
Urban Legends Reference Pages
Happy Tree Friends
GIF2TXT: ASCII Art Made Easy!
Every Video Game
The Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies - Links
Federal Agencies' FOIA Web Sites
Ctrl+Alt+Del - Tragically l337
breakdancing transformers
GREAT MINDS: atheist quotes
LARD OF THE WINGS: gotta ketchup with this election
PowerPuff Girls Doujinshi Updated Sundays
www.mangaman.net

En-yoy.

P.S. You absolutely HAVE to check out the breakdancing transformers link. It's classic.

P.P.S. Oh and of course there's this.

Ya want some background notes on every single nation on the planet?

Try the U.S. State Department website.

According to them, Iraq is a "Transitional democracy."

"Transitional" must be Bereaucrat-ease/Ameri-speak for "Not Even Close to A"

Oh, and this made me laugh out loud:

Lawrence Wilkerson shoves a wad of "Seldom in my life... Have I met... A dumber man" up Douglas Feith's ass.

Calling All South Park Fans!

BABY GOT BACK!

In other news:

Three die in all-girl country-western line dancing party accident.

It's my EX-religion

Who says Moore's law is dead?

Oh, Gordon Moore does.

Touche.

Nevertheless, without further ado...

Introducing the 5Ghz CPU.

Cooled with liquid nitrogen of course.

Of course today's XBox and PS3 will kick it's ass, but you saw that coming, right?

Speaking of kick-ass... Low-tech vs. High-tech.

Looks like comic book geeks don't have the market cornered on being easily demured by "artificial" women.

Video game geeks get into it too.

Of course you probably already knew that, but still...

Here's a little gem of a site with like a brazilian pics of rendered women.

Bandwidth/nsfw warning.

If you haven't seen the new Daily Show spin-off...

...then you haven't seen funny.

I mean it.

The Colbert Report is purely stunning in its ability to wipe the floor with modern-day tv media.

It is simultaneously cerebral and pandering.

Witty and numbskull-y.

The fact that they got STONE PHILLIPS, host of a "legitimate" news show, as the guest for the first show... well, that is just pure good ol' fashioned irony.

Ballsy irony.

Stephen kills during the interview with him.

When Stephen smugly points out his shiny Emmy and Peabody awards, Stone is rightfully emasculated.

"Did you see my Emmy?..."
(Stone admits to having an emmy)
"...Do you keep yours next to your Peabody?"
(I keep looking at SP's bio, and I don't see "Peabody" anywhere. -Drew.)

HAW!

Stephen is visibly having a blast fucking with him.

When the two of them match up in a battle of "gravitas" I almost fucking die.

There is a write up here.

And you can see an interview with Stephen Colbert (by Stephen Colbert) here.