Word of the day!

BOBFOC — Body Off Baywatch, Face Off Crimewatch.

A person who possesses a killer body but has a face that only a mother could love.

Flags by Color

Pie charts that represent the proportional amount of color in each country's national flag.
Kinda cool... .

First Therapy Dogs

Now, therapy Parrots?

An autistic boy who could not speak has learned his first words with the help of his family's pet parrot.
Dylan Hargreaves, four, has severe learning difficulties and had never uttered a single word.
But after listening to macaw Barney, he can now say "Night, night", "Dad", "Mum", "Ta", "Hello" and "Bye", reports The Sun.

Rachmaninov had big Hands

An essential part of an education in Classical music!

Those Darned Chinese..

They're at it again.
This time with poison toothpaste.

Diethylene glycol, a poisonous ingredient in some antifreeze, has been found in 6,000 tubes of toothpaste in Panama, and customs officials there said yesterday that the product appeared to have originated in China.
...the same poison that the Panamanian government inadvertently mixed into cold medicine last year, killing at least 100 people. Records show that in that episode the poison, falsely labeled as glycerin, a harmless syrup, also originated in China.

Hasn't anyone learned yet that we really should be inspecting their exports?

Woman injured in pallet mill accident

So, when they finish making a batch of pallets, what do they pack them on for shipping?

A Liberty woman suffered non-life-threatening injuries on Friday after being hurt while working at a local pallet mill.
Neli Terrones, 37, an employee at Barron Pallets Inc. on KY 1552, was loading boards into a rip saw machine at about 7:30 a.m. when her ponytail was pulled into a machine with rollers, Supervisor Gary Stafford said.

Steel Cage Matchup!

Bulldog Adopts Baby Tiger

May 12 - A French Bulldog is the adoptive mother to a Bengal tiger cub in Japan (video included).
A Bengal baby tiger that was rejected by its own mother has been adopted by an affectionate French Bulldog.
The unusual ... situation came about after the cub - which still does not have a name - was rejected by its own mother.
The tiger cub is now two weeks old and is starting to catch up in size and weight to her foster mother. Once its reaches a certain size, the zoo says the tiger cub may have to be moved to the tiger enclosure.

What Everyone is Watching Today.

What everyone is watching today:
 

Scandal Cheat Sheet

The Purgegate Primer
courtesy of The Morning News.

Here’s the problem with modern political scandals: Many of the journalists and media outlets follow the case for months—while it’s still under the radar of the American public. Then, when the scandal attracts a great deal of attention, the articles presuppose an audience as versed in the minutiae of the case as its authors. Readers interested in the big picture are left to piece together the backstory themselves.

Read Matthew Baldwin's complete essay here.

The Rock Bottom Remainders!

Playing live during an interview.

Obvious Headline of the Day

 

Iraq remains a dangerous place - Yahoo! News

BAGHDAD - Vice President
Dick Cheney said Wednesday that
Iraq remains a dangerous place, a point underscored by a thunderous explosion that rattled windows in the U.S. Embassy where he spent most of the day.

The 'headline diet' will take away your appetite

The 'headline diet' will take away your appetite in a flash

If you're looking for a dieting tip to slim down for summer, try our new headline diet. It's guaranteed to take your appetite away.
First, a salad headline, tossed with E. coli-contaminated lettuce and spinach. That E. coli comes from cow pies that taint agricultural water that then gets splashed on your salad-fixings.
Next, while waiting for our main dish, read headlines about pets all over the country falling sick and dying, and more than 100 brands of pet food being recalled.
....

Pet food recall lists

It can be hard to keep up with all of the recalled pet foods, as the list continues to expand.
The American Veterinary Medical Association keeps an updated list on its website.

Shocker...

Okay, who's really going to be surprised when we find out that it's our own fault that the honeybees are dying & our all our crop pollination goes to crap?

Didn't we learn anything after almost killing off the bald eagle with DDT, & poisoning our children at Love Canal?
Didn't we glean any smarts when the GM corn killed off beneficial insects as well as the ones we didn't want, & then found its way into crops thousands of miles from where it was supposed to be?
I guess not.