Night turtle

Pets in sunglasses

Just be cool.

Mac users are pompous asses

I know. I am one. Bite me.

This video is satire, but not by much.

Hating on the air conditioner

I love a natural summer breeze. I do.

But the latest slam on air conditioning as a hedonistic luxury fires me up.

Here's one of the leading proponents of the pie-in-the-sky ideal that we should go back to sitting on the porch of an evening with Andy and Aunt Bee:

A couple of weekends ago it was in the high 80s here in Kansas. I was in my living room with the ceiling fan going, and I thought, man, it’s really nice in here, so I went and got a thermometer, and it was 84 in the living room. I had an aunt who was always trying to economize and would keep her windows shut up and her air conditioning on 80 degrees, and that was utterly stifling. You just couldn’t exist in that kind of environment, but if you have no air conditioning and plenty of ventilation and air movement, it’s comfortable. Warmth in and of itself is not bad at all. It can even be quite enjoyable.

The high 80s, huh? Wow. Steamy. Have you been to inner-city Dallas in August? The Mississippi Delta in the summer? Hell, the American Midwest can melt the roof of your mouth onto your tongue during certain summer days.

So, mister-my-old-aunt-is-a-fool-for-using-air-conditioning, shut the fuck up.

Air conditioning transformed Southern life. The television did more to bring Aunt Bee and Andy off the porch than having a livable temperature inside ever did.

As for your silly aunt, she might be alive today because she relies on air conditioning rather than a box fan. Old and sick people succumb to the heat. As in die.

Top 10 American cars of all time

Askmen.com lists 'em.

I AM crazy 'bout a Mercury.

Heavenly mashup

Sporcle.com has a quiz combining all that Bible-thumping indoctrination I underwent as a child with one of my favorite present-day amusements--LOLcats.

Oh. my. lord. Check out and play "You can has Bible books?'

My favorite clue:
Oh hai I givez u me only kitteh and ifs u beleeves him u wont evr diez no moar, kthxbai!

And jesus god, folks on the interwebs are translating the entire Bible into LOL speak.

The first verse in the Good Book:

Oh hai. In teh beginnin Ceiling Cat maded teh skiez An da Urfs, but he did not eated dem.

I blacked out briefly from laughing right then.

Night music

Some Mary Chapin. For that jammin' JCatt.