This is not new; I’ve seen it somewhere before. Still freaking hilarious. Louis CK is amazing.

So, in response to Barney Frank asking a seriously deluded woman what planet she spends most of her time on, the seriously deluded Rush Limbaugh not only supports crazy (naturally), but also had this to say:

“But the killer for me was, here’s Barney Frank saying, ‘What planet do you live on?’ to this woman. Isn’t it an established fact that Barney Frank himself spends of his time living around Uranus?”

Uranus! That’s a hilarious and mature thing to say about openly homosexual congressman Frank. Stay classy, Rush.

For weeks now, the debate over health care reform has been hijacked by right-wingers, who are absolutely furious for some reason that probably involves their previous running the country into the ground and following utter repudiation vis-a’-vis the November elections. In their overeagerness to brand Obama as some sort of Nazi socialist, they’ve basically completely divorced themselves from reality and rational debate, and resorted to a lot of yelling about “death panels” and other things that don’t exist or they don’t understand.

Hero congressman from Massachusetts, Barney Frank, has had enough of such nonsense.

This video will bend your mind practically to the breaking point. Incredible.

The universe.. So big, it’s almost terrifying. Unfathomable doesn’t even begin to describe it.

We took pictures. From space. Of 10,000 other galaxies. With light beams from 13 billion years ago. We did that.

Hundreds of billions of galaxies with hundreds of billions of stars each. That’s so much stuff, you’re practically guaranteed to have a lot of crazy random totally amazing and unpredictable things. That’s big enough that you could have a whole planet, where one day you accidentally make imperfectly self-replicating structures that constantly reproduce and feed off the energy of a nearby star and then over time change the planet itself, so little by little they become all kinds of different and more complex things until finally millions of years later you get a bunch of monkeys that can build a telescope and send it up into the sky and see what the other galaxies looked like when the universe was young.

Who knows what else is out there?

Great quote from the book I’m currently reading:

    ”But…” Lyra struggled to find the words she wanted: “but it en’t true is it? Not true like chemistry or engineering, not that kind of true? There wasn’t really an Adam and Eve? The Cassington Scholar told me that it was just a kind of fairy tale.”
    ”The Cassington Scholarship is traditionally given to a freethinker; it’s his function to challenge the faith of the Scholars. Naturally he’d say that. But think of Adam and Eve like an imaginary number, like the square root of negative one: you can never see any concrete proof that it exists, but if you include it in your equations, you can calculate all manner of things that couldn’t be imagined without it.”

-The Golden Compass, Phillip Pullman

Wow. Here’s an awesome demonstration of how much a suck at fitness. I’m attempting to maintain a perfectly straight posture without leaning on the back or arms of the chair. Basically, I’m trying to sit up straight. It’s really hard. Much harder than I would have expected.

For one, it takes a lot of mental effort to maintain. I keep slowly drifting to one side subconsciously. My body is confused. It desperately wants to fall in to the spine bending contortion that is my typical at the computer sitting position.

Two, after a few minutes, my lower back is really unhappy. It’s horribly underequipped for this kind of a situation. My sides aren’t feeling that great either, as they’re constantly rescuing me from subtle drifts to one of the chair arms.

Who would have thought sitting could be such a workout? Sad.