It’s OK to be away from the blog for a few days

You’re busy at work, and then there’s a holiday…and besides, after all the recent hubbub you just want some time not to think about things too much for a while.  The next thing you know you haven’t posted to your blog in more than ten days and you think you really should write something just to keep engaged—and then, you find the email you sent yourself ten days ago with a link to something you thought was funny, and everything just makes sense:

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Thanks, Tom the Dancing Bug and Go.Comics.com

Support gay marriage or the homos will marry your girlfriends

Sitting at home on a cold weekday afternoon while the plumber worked away in our master bathroom, I went bopping around the Inter-Webs looking for something fun—at Upworthy I found this video which they found at Mediate but which originally came from College Humor.  Click the pic to see an inspired argument for why it is in the self-interest of all straight young men that they support legalizing same-sex marriage!

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“We’re doing you a huge solid by being more attracted to each other than to your girlfriends, but if you stay closed-minded about this we will take one for the team and marry the crap out of them.  So don’t make us marry your girlfriends; support gay marriage.”

The nice folks at Bic must be Republicans

You know, the kind of Republicans who have a certain view of the role of women in a modern society and strong feelings about appropriate ladylike behavior, and in the case of Bic, even about what pen a lady should use to write, whether it be to write down her shopping list or jot a nice thank you note to the neighbor who thoughtfully picked up the mail while her family attended vacation Bible camp. Ellen DeGeneres is very excited about this news—watch!

You’ll never see the debates the same way ever again

…after you have a look at this from Bad Lip Reading:

“Eye of the Sparrow” indeed–hilarious!

The president better Hope he can Change this!

Gallup Poll: Rural Whites Prefer Ahmadinejad To Obama

(I did not see this coming…)