Chris Dykstra

Poor telemarketer

2007-10-07T16:35:00.000-04:00

I'm on the No-Call List, but if I weren't, I'd invest a little time in putting this together - Audio only, mildly usfw.

Bees begone

2007-04-24T02:38:00.000-04:00

Forbes notices that Bushco is completely corrupt

2007-04-24T02:26:00.000-04:00

This isn't news. Not by a long shot. This crap has been going on since Bush took office. It is only slightly refreshing to see the media finally take its head ever so slightly out of its poop shoot and take notice.

Bush Administration Awash in Scandals

Whoop! Limbo sent to limbo

2007-04-21T02:11:00.000-04:00

Mere mortals are rearranging the odd spiritual plane. It isn't smart to remove a layer of heavenly plasma without proper warning to its inhabitants. Cover your heads please. There will be a torrent of babies falling out of limbo and landing....somewhere. Maybe the Pope can magically create a layer of, I don't know....Cake? for them to land in.

Pearls Before Breakfast - Joshua Bell goes ingonito

2007-04-16T16:08:00.000-04:00

Take a moment to read this. Just do it.

What if one of the world's greatest violinists played a $4 million violin incognito at rush hour in a train station? Would anyone care?

I'd like to think I would. But if I was going to miss my train picking up the kids for daycare, I probably wouldn't stop.

Call me old fashioned, or new fashioned

2007-03-28T05:22:00.000-04:00

This is maybe the weirdest father-daughter ritual I have ever heard of:

No sex please, we're daddy's little girls

Some day there is going to be a lot of bank made on the therapy bills for those poor girls.

Got Myth?

2007-01-06T23:19:00.000-05:00

The results for every mythbuster myth ever tested:

Myth Busters Results

That she-deer sure was good...

2006-12-15T04:44:00.000-05:00

Here's a beauty. I mean, my first thought upon seeing a seven-legged transgendered deer would not be: "Well, let's cut 'er up and throw 'er on the grill!"

Wisconsin Man Runs Over, Eats Seven-Legged Transgendered Deer

Midgets mauled in ring fight with Lion

2006-11-14T12:36:00.000-05:00

This absolutely MUST go down in the annals of the greatest feats of stupidity and simultanesously the greatest headline EVER i nthe entire history of mankind:

Lion Mutilates 42 Midgets in Cambodian Ring-Fight

Mind your feet please...

2006-11-03T15:53:00.000-05:00

Carnivorous Plant Eats Mouse At French Garden

Check out the video. Crunch, crunch, crunch.

What have we been doing for the last 6 years?

2006-10-23T03:00:00.000-04:00

This headline cracked me up:

GOP losses could spark partisan warfare

Hasn't partisan warfare been raging for the last 6 years? I doubt GOP losses will spark it. In all likelyhood, it will go wayyyyy down.

Schoolastic dumps orignial Path to 9/11 studyguide

2006-09-11T02:21:00.000-04:00

Good for Schoolastic:

SCHOLASTIC REPLACES “THE PATH TO 9/11” CLASSROOM GUIDE WITH NEW DISCUSSION MATERIALS FOCUSING ON CRITICAL THINKING AND MEDIA LITERACY SKILLS

“After a thorough review of the original guide that we offered online to about 25,000 high school teachers, we determined that the materials did not meet our high standards for dealing with controversial issues,” said Dick Robinson, Chairman, President and CEO of Scholastic. “At the same time, we believe that developing critical thinking and media literacy skills is crucial for students in today’s society in order to participate fully in our democracy and that a program such as ‘The Path to 9/11’ provides a very ‘teachable moment’ for developing these skills at the high school level. We encourage teachers not to shy away from the controversy surrounding the program, but rather to engage their students in meaningful, in-depth discussion.”

Bush to Jagger: Get out of my room!

2006-04-26T04:46:00.000-04:00

Jagger beats Bush to the room.

Lifestyles of the rich and petulant (on both accounts).

unmetered oil

2006-04-04T04:07:00.000-04:00

In the end, the death knell for idealism is almost always corruption. In their most positive light, the neocons are idealists. They are serious idealogues carrying philosophies baked by years of service to the Gods of Bureaucracy, Money and Power.

Think about how much money is at play in Iraq...Then think about unmetered oil.

Now, tell me what incentive those in charge have to facilitate peace. None. Nobody gets rich on the spoils of war in peace time.

Harris is on the way to the ash heap of history

2006-03-14T03:30:00.000-05:00

The perfect end for Kathleen Harris would be obscurity.

Let us go forth and brainwash the children

2006-02-13T04:19:00.000-05:00

Isn't this cute. This must be what being in a cult is like:

"Boys and girls," Ham said. If a teacher so much as mentions evolution, or the Big Bang, or an era when dinosaurs ruled the Earth, "you put your hand up and you say, 'Excuse me, were you there?' Can you remember that?"

The children roared their assent.

"Sometimes people will answer, 'No, but you weren't there either,' " Ham told them. "Then you say, 'No, I wasn't, but I know someone who was, and I have his book about the history of the world.' " He waved his Bible in the air.

"Who's the only one who's always been there?" Ham asked.

"God!" the boys and girls shouted.

"Who's the only one who knows everything?"

"God!"

"So who should you always trust, God or the scientists?"

The children answered with a thundering: "God!"

What an investment in ignorance. I can't help but think that that will backfire. Except for the endlessly gullible media, there are very few venues - civil, educational, religious, scientific or otherwise inwhich the charade of Intelligent Design has any traction at all.

In a more encouraging story:

Nearly 450 Christian churches around the country plan to celebrate the 197th birthday of Charles Darwin on Sunday with programs and sermons intended to emphasize that his theory of biological evolution is compatible with faith and that Christians have no need to choose between religion and science.

Unembedded.net a treasure trove of truth

2006-02-09T06:18:00.000-05:00

I found Unembedded.net to be a remarkable collection of the photographs of several freelance photographers working in Iraq.

Bush in monetary fantasy land....

2006-02-09T06:09:00.000-05:00

LOREN STEFFY writes in the Houston Chronicle:

The Bush budget is a trillion little pieces of fantasy

WE will be out of Iraq and, for that matter, Afghanistan, by the end of the next fiscal year. No troops, no economic support of any kind.

The alternative minimum tax, that secret tax system ensnaring more and more middle-class families, will vanish without costing the government a dime in lost revenue.

The tax cuts that have saved some of the wealthiest among us hundreds of dollars a year will continue indefinitely. This, too, will cost the government nothing.

That spiffy alternative energy technology that President Bush said in his State of the Union speech last week will help end our oil addiction? It can be funded on a shoestring.

Those are just a few of the twisted fantasies you have to embrace if you want to follow the president down the rabbit hole of his latest budget proposal.

NASA faked the Moon Landing...Oh yes they did...Oh huh

2005-12-02T02:20:00.000-05:00

At last, the controversy over whether or not astronauts actually landed on the moon can finally be put to rest.

US vs Padilla: blink

2005-11-27T06:20:00.000-05:00

We are roughly half through the long saga of Bush-style war on terror. It is unraveling. The evidence will begin to squeeze through the cracks in instances like the Padilla case: Testimony gained through torture meets the death of habeas corpus meets the limits of presidential power meets a legitimate court of law.

Report: US didn't want Al Qaeda members to testify in Padilla case

Woof. Triumph barks up the Global Warming Tree

2005-11-23T01:34:00.000-05:00

Triumph discusses global warming with 4 somewhat shellshocked republicans. Gotta love Triumph.

Brazil is big

2005-11-09T02:48:00.000-05:00

He never fails to embarass. Bush to Celso Amorim, the Brazilian foreign minister:

Wow! Brazil is big

Ambassador de Sade

2005-11-09T02:27:00.000-05:00

Mark over at Norwegianity has a post up about:

Ambassador de Sade

This has to be one of the most dispiriting things I have read in a long while. How rife is our government with these creeps?

Bush's speechwriter

2005-10-28T10:16:00.000-04:00

On this the eve of possible revelations about presidential pecadilloes, I thought it appropriate to re-visit why it is that Bush was elected:

That young fella shore can talk, caint he?

muralfull

2005-10-12T11:04:00.000-04:00

muralfull
Originally uploaded by duckstrap.

I did this mural two years ago in a minneapolis restaurant. They tore it down the other day.