Apparently, the design for the Independent League baseball Amarillo Sox' mascot didn't turn out quite the way they had hoped.
"Is this the way to Amarillo?
Every night I've been hugging my pillow
Dreaming dreams of Amarillo
And sweet Marie who waits for me."
Now we know why. Read the team owner's comment at the end - it gets even better.
Socrates: There's this little passage I got memorized that I like to recite in situations like this. It is a tale of a brave man, Er, who once died in war. On the twelfth day, as he was already laid out on the funeral pyre, he revived, and told what he had seen yonder. He said that after his soul had left him it travelled with many others until they came to a marvellous place, where there were two openings upward into heaven, and between them sat judges. These, when they had given judgment, ordered the just to go upward through the heavens by the opening on the right. The unjust they ordered to travel downward by the opening on the left. For all the wrongs they had done to any person they paid a tenfold penalty. Savage men, all fiery to look at bound their feet, hands and heads, and threw them down and beat them, tortured them on thorny bushes....there's more.
Aristotle: What the f**k was that all about?
Socrates: So, motherf**ker, prepare to test the hypothesis! See, I've got it figured out, I'm the just man, and you're the unjust man, my gun is the thorny bushes, and Mr. dead pansy here is the judge. Now DIE MOTHERFUC --
Aristotle: But what if I'm the just man and you're the unjust man and this dead dipshit is the thorny bushes?
Socrates: Oh, uh ...
Aristotle: Or what if Alcibiades is the just man, and we're both unjust men. And the thorny bushes are the judge?
Socrates: S**t, well I guess that all depends on your definition of justice.
- Nathaniel Daw's "Republic Dogs" (h/t Michel Butler)
Sadly, the video may be a parody, but the underlying truth of Islamic religious cleansing that it illustrates is no parody at all in many parts of the world. This Christmas, how about a thought for the Christians facing it in the Palestinian Territories, Iraq, Indonesia, Nigeria, etc.
With the stock market gyrating frantically up and down, there's a lot of heavy breathing out there. If you're feeling anxious, I commend to you this video from about a year ago, to brighten your day:
Minyanville's characters may be animated, but it's a real financial site and the people involved here are likewise real.
Wow, a French film - well, short really, but you get the idea - that I like. I'd say "who knew?" But if you've ever seen Brotherhood of the Wolf, you'll know that some French films are good:
This one won a bunch of deserved awards, and even has its own web site.
London's Daily Telegraph has the photo and short story: 'Astro-squirrels' use coconut shells as helmets.
Really, anyone who has ever owned a bird feeder, and watched Gilligan's Island, has entertained serious suspicions of this sort for quite some time...
This was simply too funny. If you haven't seen it, consider it my New Year's gift. Ever wonder what the Chinese participants were really thinking? Well...
And kudos to SNL for living up to its mission to parody anyone, from any party. They do it so well, which is one reason why they're still going.
Yeah, this one amused me... guess you have to be a certain age.
