THE EVIL EYE:

"'When I feel tired, I take a nap. When I have a headache, I take aspirin,” Jerry tells me, matter-of-factly. We’re in his car, returning from a night on the town in Rio, just outside of Patras in the Peloponnese region of Greece. “But these two,” he says, motioning toward his friends, Dmitri in the passenger sear, his brother Stavros beside me in the rear, “run to their mummy.”

The brothers have good reason to run to their mother when they’re afflicted by lethargy and headache, and they tell me so in spite of Jerry’s snickering. It doesn’t take much to get the matiasma, or the evil eye. If anyone so much as admires your shoes, even from a distance, this envy can put a spell on you."

Stupid Christian writes a book about what heaven is like:

"Although DeStefano can't say for sure what form heavenly sex will take, it will either be the same as on earth but without promiscuity, or there will be a sexual substitute even better than regular sex."

Doesn't sound like heaven to me.

AlterNet: Framing a Democratic Agenda

"Reframing takes awhile, but it won't happen if we don't start. The place to begin is by understanding how progressives and conservatives think. In 1994, I dutifully read the 'Contract with America' and found myself unable to comprehend how conservative views formed a coherent set of political positions. What, I asked myself, did opposition to abortion have to do with the flat tax? What did the flat tax have to do with opposition to environmental regulations? What did defense of gun ownership have to do with tort reform? Or tort reform with opposition to affirmative action? And what did all of the above have to do with family values? Moreover, why do conservatives and progressives talk past one another, not with one another?
The answer is that there are distinct conservative and progressive worldviews. The two groups simply see the world in different ways. As a cognitive scientist, I've found in my research that these political worldviews can be understood as opposing models of an ideal family – a strict father family and a nurturant parent family. These family models come with moral systems, which in turn provide the deep framing of all political issues. "

Yahoo! News - Studios Moving to Block Piracy of Films Online

The MPAA's version of the D.A.R.E. program. Personally, I think that this idea is patently offensive - copyright laws are too divisive an issue to have some kind of corporately mandated education offensive in an effort to establish the copyright "dogma". It's tantamount to having anti-abortion activists come into classrooms to teach students the moral and ethical ramifications of abortion.

"Also, as early as next month the industry will begin promoting a 'stealing is bad' message in schools, teaming up with Junior Achievement on an hourlong class for fifth through ninth graders on the history of copyright law and the evils of online file sharing. The effort includes games like Starving Artist, in which students pretend to be musicians whose work is downloaded free from the Internet, and a crossword puzzle called Surfing for Trouble. "

The Onion | I Assume My Reputation For Arrogant Presumption Precedes Me

"Boastful and self-important? I've bragged of everything from my golf game to my ludicrously expensive automobile to the size of my perfect dick. Maybe someday, I'll let you curl up at my feet, and I will delight your eager ears with talk of such matters.
Rude and insensitive? Ha! You'll never meet anybody less sensitive than I am. Can you hear me?
Base? Fuck yes!
Patronizing? Indubitably. (That means 'yes,' in case I lost you there.)
Inappropriate to the point of being downright sexist? Believe it, sweet-cheeks. "

This guy needed a sitter.:

"A student cut off his penis and tongue with garden shears while tripping on an hallucinogenic drug.
The 18-year-old German went into his garden and set about severing his organs after downing a tea made with the plant Angels' Trumpet."

Zombie Pinups

Hot chicks dressed up in cute little outfits, and made up like zombies. Pretty cute!

Thanks, memepool.

Black People Love Us!:

"Black People Love Us!
We are well-liked by Black people so we're psyched (since lots of Black people don't like lots of White people)!! We thought it'd be cool to honor our exceptional status with a ROCKIN' domain name and a killer website!!


We hope you think we're as awesome as the Black community does"