No Body Piercings

Espoo is the second-largest city in Finland.  The first inhabitants in the area arrived about 9,000 years ago. A permanent settlement was established during the 12th and 13th centuries.

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The word “dormouse” comes from the Anglo-Norman dormeus, which means “sleepy (one)”.

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Fox, the new anti-matter:  “Fairleigh Dickinson University found last month that “some outlets, especially Fox News, lead people to be even less informed than those who say they don’t watch any news at all.”

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How vultures eat human bodies:  “Their findings imply that vultures can take much longer—37 days instead of 24 hours—to find a body than the carcass of a pig left in the wilderness, which is what previous studies in the Texas facility have used.”

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Late Night Jokes

Mitt Romney released his tax records and they showed that he earned$42 million over the last two years. So now the other candidates aren’t running for president. They’re running to be Mitt Romney.

Here in California, some Starbucks stores have begun selling beer and wine. When asked why, a spokesperson for Starbucks said, “Because sober people don’t buy Michael Buble CDs.”

There’s a State of the Union drinking game. Let me just say this, if you really are playing the State of the Union drinking game, you’re probably an alcoholic.

Obama focused on four areas he believes are the keys to restoring economic security. Energy, manufacturing, education, and TV shows about cupcakes, which we love.

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It snowed yesterday.  It was 58 today.  Colorado.  Ya know?

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This is a small part of the 8000 x 8000 pixel photo of Our Home.

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The French way:  “Children are an important part of the family, but family life doesn’t revolve round them,” points out Druckerman. “In America and Britain, there’s a belief that having children must entail self- sacrifice and that we must push them to succeed. The French are more patient and allow their children far more freedom. You never see French mothers hovering anxiously round their children in a park.” French women don’t dedicate themselves selflessly to motherhood. French fathers aren’t enslaved at weekends, driving children to activities. And babies are seldom breast-fed for long – the emphasis instead being on the mother’s sex life returning to normal as soon as possible.”

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Disneyland/World employees can now have a short beard or goatee.  However, no tats or body piercings.

Except for the dwarves, I guess.

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Alaska Airlines will stop handing out prayer cards.  “If nothing else, the new policy will even out the playing field in terms of potential salvation.”

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Well, he got that right.  “The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is—and I mean this seriously—the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been,” Castro wrote in an opinion column carried by a Cuban state paper, Haven wrote.

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Brutally honest movie posters.

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This week in Republican Idiocy:

Gingrich (again) claimed his multiple affairs “make me more normal than somebody who wanders around seeming perfect” because he can understand “the human condition and challenges of life for normal people.”

Mayor Joseph Maturo of East Haven, CT said he “might have tacos when I go home” when asked by WPIX reporter Mario Diaz what he would do for the Latino community.

Hal Rounds of the Tennessee Teabaggers stated that the group wants to introduce a proposal to remove references to minorities in American history textbooks, along with any negative portrayals of the wealthy white men who led the nation in the early years. He further added that the group wants to address “an awful lot of made-up criticism about, for instance, the founders intruding on the Indians or having slaves or being hypocrites in one way or another.

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