Subscribe (RSS)Blog Heap of Links for the day 4 September 2015
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Wars and Rumors
Muslim Flight Attendant Sues Because Job Makes Her Serve Drink
Will she be forced by a judge to serve drinks or go to jail like the marriage license clerk? …the butcher, the baker, the wedding-photo maker…
7:09am CDT Fri 2015 Sep 4 :MW
Five American yeshiva students were attacked by Palestinians in Hebron after they got lost in the West Bank city on Thursday. … Two… were lightly-to-moderately injured in the riot that ensued… Palestinian assailants firebombed their car… The group was whisked away by a local, who let them hide in his house until Israel security forces arrived to extract them.…
Theory of Education
…If parents understood how hopeless and painful this process is, they would never allow their children near sight-words. So we need a way for parents to grasp viscerally that sight-words are a mission impossible for almost all children.…
9:05am CDT Fri 2015 Sep 4 :MW
The sad state of modern education, fully displayed in a series of graphics, selected by the master of graphic selection, Bluebird.
7:43am CDT Fri 2015 Sep 4 :MW
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Pareidolia
Still more hilarious Pareidolia Pix c/o Bluebird.
7:17am CDT Fri 2015 Sep 4 :MW
Oh! The Irony!
In July the PGA decided to move its October tournament at the Trump National Golf Club in Los Angeles after his comments about illegal aliens.… Today the PGA announced it was cancelling the October tournament.
They couldn’t find a course on time.…
Hahahahahaahaha. Duffers. (Hoft cites The Hill.)
6:21am CDT Fri 2015 Sep 4 :MW
Animal Culture
The graphic-gathering maestro Bluebird has outdone herself with this collection connecting felines and films.
8:35am CDT Fri 2015 Sep 4 :MW
Critters seeking the sun posters by postermaster Bluebird
7:46am CDT Fri 2015 Sep 4 :MW
History - still with us
The world's most famous mummy, Tutankhamun, was buried with his penis standing at a 90 degree angle… to make King Tut look like Osiris, the god of the afterlife. …to counter efforts by his father King Akjenaten to establish a religion of one god.…
8:44am CDT Fri 2015 Sep 4 :MW
Solar System
…it really does look like a spoon hanging in the air, just above the surface of some layered rock. But as Mars is devoid of any civilization, advanced or otherwise, that is capable of manufacturing said spoon, there’s probably a more logical answer.…
6:33am CDT Fri 2015 Sep 4 :MW
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Breitbart is Here
Political and humorous graphics. Retro-added Sp7
7:50pm CDT Fri 2015 Sep 4 :MW
Posters of the funny, the political, and the bizarre.
8:27am CDT Fri 2015 Sep 4 :MW
On this day in 1888 George Eastman registered the trademark Kodak and received a patent for his camera that used roll film.
Vic is back on the job, even if the morning thread posters are not. ONT'd again.
6:26am CDT Fri 2015 Sep 4 :MW