• Portland artist Bijijoo pro­vides a great ser­vice to our nation — por­traits of our pres­i­dents cradling ham hocks.

• Three ques­tions: What is a “sec­ond chakra,” what is it doing in the pubic area, and why does Al Gore have an alleged inter­est in releas­ing it? (h/t Jack B)

• Why Peruvians are paint­ing the Andes white

• Big, bad-ass bears from Kamchatka

• Sperm whales, unlike many Portlanders I know, have per­son­al­i­ties

• Swimming lizard robot. Hi, fella!

• Bagby Hot Springs gets a write-up in Atlas Obscura

• Does the pub­lic func­tion as a mass, par­ti­san critic of admin­is­tra­tion moves, or does it behave more like a ther­mo­stat?

• Following a mishap with a com­bine har­vester, Oscar the Cat gets bionic appendages

• Mark your cal­en­dars, Oregonians: July 11, 2010, AD at Lincoln City — the pres­ti­gious Competitive Rib Eating Contest returns. Making an appear­ance will be Joey Chestnut, the world’s most dec­o­rated gus­ta­tory athlete.

• Did a bag of potato chips lure a con­fes­sion out of a portly rapist?

• Screwing up makes us whipsmart

• Why is a Ukrainian jet stuck in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan?

• 5 Interesting tid­bits about Stevie Hawking

• Obama and cheeseburgers

• The most grat­ing mys­tery of our time, and one deserv­ing of unre­lent­ing sci­en­tific inquiry, is the ques­tion of why Ozzy Osbourne is still alive

• Why don’t Penn and Teller attack Islam on BULLSHIT? The rea­son is a valid one, and I respect and appre­ci­ate it, although it offers a sad, illu­mi­nat­ing com­men­tary on the state of the world: they have fam­i­lies, and they don’t want to see them beheaded or suf­fer some other insane atroc­ity at the hands of mur­der­ous, patho­log­i­cal thugs who are offended by what two magi­cians say on TV.

I guess that’s where we are these days in terms of global, intel­lec­tual dis­course — if free speech still exists, it’s either hang­ing on by a loose, tat­tered thread or float­ing about nom­i­nally. Markets used to rule the world, and back then, we thrived. Now patho­log­i­cal mad­men who live in caves rule the world, and nobody can speak ill of them lest we want to see our loved ones slaugh­tered in the streets.

Barbarism. Seventh-century idiocy. Nukes as read­ily avail­able as Little Debbie Snack Cakes.

Yep, I like the direc­tion this world is headed in.

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