Cleaning Out the Link Cage, 08/23/09:
I’m told that Whole Foods Market is a fascist corporation intoxicated by its own greed, yet it has one of the most comprehensive and exhaustive list of employee benefits I’ve ever seen.
Advertise and flaunt your formidable global conscience with the “I Am Not a Paper Cup” cup.
What are human beings if not microbes inside of microbes? We are the Russian nesting dolls of evolution!
Sara Varone. Suddenly I desire to live in Italy.
PETA seeks to transform a prison into a Pig Empathy Museum. Meatless riblets ahoy!
Leg-lengthening surgeries in Siberia are all the rage. Patient testimonial: “This process really sucks you in when you see your legs grow longer you want to lengthen them more. Then you can lengthen the thighs and so on for the whole ten centimeters and it looks really beautiful.”
Ukrainian sand animation.
More PETA. This time they target fat chicks. Some hefty ladies here in Portland take umbrage with this.
I extend happy thoughts to Rik Rawling for bringing this image to my attention.
Green Bay, Wisconsin blasts into the 21st Century with the hiring of its first-ever black cop.
Damon W. Root strongly implies that the left is full of shit when it claims a history of racial tolerance:
…let’s not forget the racist history of the American labor movement, particularly the powerful American Federation of Labor (AFL). Since most AFL unions banned African Americans outright until federal anti-discrimination laws appeared in the 1960s, blacks often had to take drastic measures to break into union-dominated fields. This led many African Americans to accept dangerous work as strikebreakers—’scabs’—while the lily-white AFL walked the picket line.
Fantastic piece from David Harsanyi at RealClearPolitics.com. I wish I had written this line:
As an atheist…my core moral concern is that elected officials stop telling me what my core moral concerns should be.
Plastic-surgery mutant Jerry Jones says his new Dallas Cowboys playground is a “religious experience.”
New this week at the IcedBorscht.com homestead: BITTER MELON!
