The Bangor, Maine police have some good advice for folks not used to major snowstorms (hi, USA mid-Atlantic states!):
1. Don't panic. It's just frozen rain. It does go away so don't try to move too much at one time ( Read more... )

In which Josh Whedon provides the reasoning behind his endorsement in the 2012 US Presidential election: ( Embedded YouTube behind the cut )

Me: (heads down to the Registry of Motor Vehicles to get some veteran's plates ( Read more... )

A couple of months ago, I blogged about that Air New Zealand advertisement where various crew members wore only body paint.

Now, they've gone one better - they've done a pre-flight safety briefing in nothing but body paint:
( Bare essentials of safety from Air New Zealand )

... stoner wallabies, apparently.

At least in Tasmania.

The BBC reports:
Australian wallabies are eating opium poppies and creating crop circles as they hop around "as high as a kite", a government official has said ( Read more... )

( An overtly political video. Cut for the sake of those trying to ignore the hogwallow of US presidential politics for their own sanity )

Some quotes from an interview with John Cleese of Monty Python fame about Alaska Governor (and GOP Vice-Presidential nominee) Sarah Palin:

"I used to think that Michael Palin was the funniest Palin on Earth."

"It's like a nice-looking parrot."

"Monty Python could have written this!"

( YouTube behind the cut )

This post is just to show off the animated userpic I just created from some of the various "XXXX for Obama" buttons available at http://www.democraticstuff.comRead more... )

Thanks to rivka, "One Day More" from the musical Les Miserables -- set in Obama's campaign HQ on the eve of the 2008 US presidential election, with "John McCain" as Inspector Javert and "Sarah Palin" as Madame Thenardier:
( YouTube cut for the sake of low-bandwidth viewers )

http://community.livejournal.com/metaquotes/3814538.html

(originally from http://cadhla.livejournal.com/827233.html. Thanks to jhetley for the heads-up.)