Bernie Sanders Filibustering the Obama Tax Failure

Bernie Sanders Filibuster: Senator Stalls Tax Cut Deal (LIVE VIDEO).

I wish I could vote for that man.  Sincerely.

Happy birthday, Tom Waits!

Damn, I love this song.  Broke a harmonica trying to play along.  Good times.

 

EDIT:  This happened when I went to share this post on Facebook.  A nice reminder.

Some graffiti inspiration

http://ping.fm/6uDJF

My new hero!

In short order, his gray two-story house on Beach 128th Street in the Rockaways, just off the ocean, was swarmed by detectives and uniformed officers from New York City and the Port Authority. “It was like there was a hostage in there,” said Curt Krakowski, who was working on the deck of a house across the street.

This guy is awesome.  He cussed the prick out, grabbed a beer, and hit the chute.  Good on ya!

via NYTimes.com.

Epic win for justice!

Today the GAYS (insert horror-movie scream) won a great victory against injustice.  The judge took apart the flimsy rationales behind California’s Prop 8 piece by piece (I started reading at page 133).  Including the hokum that schoolchildren would be taught homosexuality.  It’s wonderful to see some small bit of evidence supporting the idea that the system actually works.  I bet the people at Fox News are apoplectic. Tee hee.

Words of wisdom

Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it’s the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it.
John Waters (via 52books)

This Land Is Your Land

As I was walkin’ I saw a sign there
And that sign said “No tresspassin’”
But on the other side, it didn’t say nothin’
Now that side was made for you and me

In the squares of the city / In the shadow of the steeple
Near the relief office, I see my people
And some are grumblin’ and some are wonderin’
If this land’s still made for you and me

Forgotten Verses From “This Land is Your Land” | Disinformation

Key To Life

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
John Lennon (via gwenmccartney)

No one really knows why, but for an open wound, simply applying suction dramatically speeds healing times. (The theory is that the negative pressure draws bacteria out, and encourages circulation.) But for almost everyone, that treatment is out of reach — simply because the systems are expensive — rentals cost at least $100 a day and need to be recharged every six hours.

No more. Danielle Zurovcik, a doctoral student at MIT, has created a hand-powered suction-healing system that costs about $3. The device is composed of an airtight wound dressing, connected by a plastic tube to a cylinder with accordion-like folds. Squeezing it creates the suction, which lasts as long as there’s no air leak. What’s more, where regular dressings need to be replaced up to three times a day — a painful ordeal — the new cuff can be left on for several days.

MIT Student Develops $3 Cutting-Edge Healing Device, Field Tested in Haiti