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Looking on the wrong end of the telescope for god

Scottish comedian Billy Connolly on a routine explaining why we can’t understand god.

Real animals infringe on Bambi

Cory Doctorow pours on a healthy helping of sarcasm with this post.

Humor: Rape an ape

From a british show called “Time Trumpet”, which purports to be a look back at the first 30 years of the 21st century. I really wouldn’t be all that surprised if something like this ends up being the reality TV of the future.

8-year-old vs. O’Reilly

An 8-year-old working from what is a very funny script ranting about Bill O’Reilly’s comments on videogames and music.

A hilarious attempt at viral marketing by the Bastard Fairies, a band I’ve never heard of.

Humor: Women and Cars

“It’s got good 20 years happy motoring ahead of it… or has it?”

Steven Levitt on The Colbert Report

Here’s Steven Levitt, author of the betseller Freakonomics - you can even find that book in Costarrican supermarkets now - talking to the hilarious Stephen Colbert.

Colbert does the confident idiot act so perfectly that it’s almost hard to forget he’s not.
Not a lot of economic insight on that interview, but worth it if just for […]

Is your cat mind-controlling you?

I’ve always been disturbed by parasites that can take over your body and alter your physiology and behavior in subtle ways. Wasps, for instance, lay eggs on the bodies of caterpillars, which then alter the caterpillar’s behavior so that instead of eventually turning into pupa, it continues eating until it bursts with the wasp’s […]

It’s not a bloody toy!

I just read on CNN that a tiger attacked and killed a woman during a photo shoot.
No shit! It’s a huge feline savage predator, its instinct driven in through millenia of evolution, and people get surprised when it doesn’t act like a cute pussycat. Ten years from now the headline will be Pet […]

Housewife charged in sex-for-security scam

One of the nastiest pieces ever in The Onion is also one of their funniest.

South Park me

My friend Jose Ulloa just sent me this South Park version of myself. I thought it was pretty apropos.